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Bountiful deserts : sustaining Indigenous worlds in northern New Spain
- Title
- Bountiful deserts : sustaining Indigenous worlds in northern New Spain / Cynthia Radding.
- Author
- Radding Murrieta, Cynthia
- Publication
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xvii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who made the land bountiful in their material resources and sacred spaces. It uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to recreate the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and - after European contact - livestock and extractive industries. It returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended"--
- Series Statement
- Latin American landscapes
- Uniform Title
- Latin American landscapes.
- Alternative Title
- Sustaining Indigenous worlds in northern New Spain
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Yoremia Yorecame Bathue Mayoamaqui -- Introduction: corridors of knowledge -- Part I. Cultural resilience through the production of landscapes -- 1. Harvesting the floodplains and nurturing the monte -- 2. The storied geographies of northwestern Mexico -- 3. Corridors of migration and the forging of colonial spaces -- Part II. Internal frontiers and the production of knowledge in northwestern New Spain -- 4. Entangled communities in Ostimuri and Sinaloa -- 5. Territories of conflict, boundaries, and the measurement of the monte -- 6. Rebellion: the monte in flames -- Conclusions: defending the boundaries of Indigenous worlds.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-745
- ISBN
- 9780816546923
- 0816546924
- 9780816529896
- 0816529892
- LCCN
- 2022008321
- OCLC
- 1306215804
- 1306215804
- Author
- Radding Murrieta, Cynthia, author.
- Title
- Bountiful deserts : sustaining Indigenous worlds in northern New Spain / Cynthia Radding.
- Publisher
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Latin American landscapesLatin American landscapes.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-327) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Radding, Cynthia, 1946- Bountiful deserts [Tucson] : The University of Arizona Press, 2022 9780816546916 (DLC) 2022008322
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-745