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Landscapes of Power and Identity : Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic /

This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Radding Murrieta, Cynthia (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Ecological and cultural frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos
  • Political economy : communities and conflicting claims to property
  • Ethnic mosaics and gendered identities
  • Power negotiated, power defied : political culture, governance, and mobilization
  • Priests and Shamans : spiritual power, ritual and knowledge
  • Postcolonial landscapes : transitions from colony to republic
  • Contested landscapes in continental borderlands.