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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817887203321

Autore

Radding Murrieta Cynthia

Titolo

Bountiful Deserts : Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain / / Cynthia Radding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-8165-4691-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Latin American Landscapes Series

Disciplina

972.17

Soggetti

Mayo Indians - Mexico, North - History

Mayo Indians - Land tenure - Mexico, North

Mayo Indians - Science - Mexico, North

Mayo Indians - Wars - Mexico, North

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--