Landscapes of Power and Identity
Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
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Published on 18. January 2006
456 pages
978-0-8223-8740-4 (ISBN)
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This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization.
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Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
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Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
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Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1
1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19
2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55
3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89
4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117
5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and
Mobilization 162
6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 196
7. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 240
8. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295
Notes 327
Glossary 375
Bibliography 385
Index 423
Abbreviations xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1
1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19
2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55
3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89
4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117
5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and
Mobilization 162
6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 196
7. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 240
8. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295
Notes 327
Glossary 375
Bibliography 385
Index 423
