This attempted fusion of the peasant-philosopher Jesus of Nazareth with a popular cowboy icon both names and characterizes what Du Mez describes as “the evangelical cult of masculinity” and its accompanying patterns of misogyny and abuse.
The title Jesus and John Wayne comes from a song of the same name from the Gaither Vocal Band. Du Mez offers a granular take on her subject by isolating and analyzing an observable phenomenon in American life which, upon processing her study, readers are likely to see everywhere: “militantly patriarchal expressions” of a toxic faith which is, in turn, toxically political. Kristin Kobes Du Mez tells in Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.ĭu Mez, a professor of history at Calvin University, casts a critical eye upon a culture she knows well - the demographic group labeled “evangelicals” in polls and election cycles and its strange but alarmingly decisive bearing within local, state, and federal governments in the United States. 68.“Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged.” This hopeful aphorism from Albert Camus is one avenue for approaching the breathtakingly thorough and eye-rubbingly sad story Dr. Indians of South America - Bolivia - Antiquities.Ĭontributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility no. Plank.Įxcavations (Archaeology) - Bolivia - Khonkho Wankane Site. Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191).ĪNTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. The volume collectively demonstrates that Khonkho Wankanke was one of the most important Late Formative ritual and political centers in the Lake Titicaca basin during the Late Formative generations of the region's history.Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, features contributions by many excellent Bolivian and North American archaeologists: Carlos Lémuz Aguirre, Deborah Blom, Christopher Dayton, Jake Fox, Arik Ohnstad, José Luís Paz Soria, Adolfo Pérez Arias, Maribel Pérez Arias, Dennise Rodas Sanjinéz, Andrew Roddick, Scott Smith, Benjamin Vining, and Patrick Ryan Williams.
The volume includes chapters summarizing a history of archaeological research at Khonkho, shifting settlement patterns around the site, results of geophysical survey, excavations in monumental, residential, and mortuary contexts, and an analysis of the site's storied monoliths. This monograph collates results of the first few years of archaeological research at Khonkho Wankane, a major Formative site in the southern Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia. Vi, 191 pages : illustrations (some color), maps 28 cm.Ĭontributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility - no.
Khonkho Wankane : archaeological investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia / / John Wayne Janusek, editor.īerkeley, CA : eScholarship, University of California,