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Wandering Peoples : Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 /

"Balanced and thorough work on colonial and early-19th-century Sonora and Sinaloa combines historical and ethnohistorical methodologies, narratives, statistical data, and analysis of the changing relations among Indians, villagers, miners, missionaries, and the state. Describes and analyzes the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radding Murrieta, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Social Ecology of the Sonoran Frontier
  • pt. 1. Los Sonoras and the Iberian Invasion of Northwestern Mexico. 1. Ethnic Frontiers in the Sonoran Desert. 2. Amerindian Economy in Sonora. 3. Native Livelihood and the Colonial Economy
  • pt. 2. The Intimate Sphere of Ethnicity: Household and Community. 4. Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Formation in Sonora. 5. "Gypseys" and Villagers: Shifting Communities and Changing Ethnic Identities in Highland Sonora
  • pt. 3. Rival Proprietors and Changing Forms of Land Tenure. 6. Land and the Indian Comun. 7. Peasants, Hacendados, and Merchants: The Cultural Differentiation of Sonoran Society
  • pt. 4. Ethnogenesis and Resistant Adaptation.