Marta Weigle has taught anthropology, English, and American studies at the University of New Mexico since 1972. Currently a University Regents Professor in the Anthropology Department, she has chaired that department and the Department of American Studies. Originally published in 1976, “Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest” and its companion “A Penitente Bibliography” are based on doctoral and subsequent research that began in the late 1960s and are now …
Marta Weigle has taught anthropology, English, and American studies at the University of New Mexico since 1972. Currently a University Regents Professor in the Anthropology Department, she has chaired that department and the Department of American Studies. Originally published in 1976, “Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest” and its companion “A Penitente Bibliography” are based on doctoral and subsequent research that began in the late 1960s and are now a part of the Southwest Heritage Series from Sunstone Press. Among Weigle’s many books on the Southwest are the co-authored “The Lore of New Mexico” (1988, 2003) and the co-edited “Hispano Folklife of New Mexico” (1978), “Hispanic Arts and Ethnohistory in the Southwest” (1983), and “Spanish New Mexico” (1996). In 2005 she received the inaugural State Historian’s Award for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship from the Cultural Properties Review Committee and the State Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural Affairs.
