Alfonso Alex Ortiz (April 30, 1939 Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico – January 26, 1997) was a Native American cultural anthropologist.^[1][2]

Life

Ortiz graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961, and from the University of Chicago with a master's degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology. He taught at University of California at Los Angeles, Colorado College, Pitzer College and Princeton University, and at the University of New Mexico.^[3]

He was president of the Association on American Indian Affairs. His San Juan Pueblo, Oral History tapes and papers are held at Princeton.^[4][5]

Legacy

In 1999, the National Endowment for the Humanities issued a grant for the University of New Mexico to establish the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies.^[6]

Awards

• 1975 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1982 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, and Becoming in a Pueblo Society. University of Chicago Press. 1972. ISBN 978-0-226-63307-7.
• New Perspectives on the Pueblos, University of New Mexico Press, 1972
• Handbook of North American Indians (volumes 9 and 10, Smithsonian Institution, 1979 and 1983
• To Carry Forth the Vine: an Anthology of Traditional Native North American Poetry.
• American Indian myths and legends Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz (eds) Pantheon Books, 1984, ISBN 978-0-394-50796-5
• Raymond J. DeMallie; Alfonso Ortiz, eds. (1994). North American Indian anthropology: essays on society and culture. Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. ISBN 978-0-8061-2614-2.
• Raymond J. DeMallie; Alfonso Ortiz, eds. (1994). "The Dynamics of Pueblo Cultural Survival". North American Indian anthropology: essays on society and culture. Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG. ISBN 978-0-8061-2614-2.
• Alfonso Ortiz Papers 1926-1993 (mostly 1960s-1980s) at Princeton University Library
• Alfonso Ortiz Collection of Native American Oral Literature 1959-1965, at Princeton University Library