BorderLore – Waterways and the Wailing Woman

BorderLore is a free online journal documenting, sharing, and elevating folklife in the US-Mexico borderlands region. They publish six times a year to uplift folklife practices often “hidden in plain view” and to connect people across culture, tradition, and geography. 

As rivers throughout the borderlands drain of winter snowpack and (soon?) fill with the summer rains, we’re thinking about how waterways are channels not just for water, but also for loss and discovery, grief and mourning, reconciliation and sovereignty. A river is always more than a river. Their current issue considers several meandering riverbeds in the Southwest and efforts underway to protect them, as well as one very famous ghost whose story cuts deep into arroyos across the Americas.

BorderLore is published by the Southwest Folklife Alliance (SFA), an affiliate non-profit organization of the University of Arizona, housed within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the designated Folk Arts Partner of the Arizona Commission on the Arts with the support of the National Endowment of the Arts. SFA’s mission is to build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage and diversity in the Greater Southwest.

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If you have stories to share, please send your ideas to KimiEisele@arizona.edu

Editor: Dr. Maribel Alvarez 
Managing Editor: Kimi Eisele