Radding Landscapes of Power and Identity

Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8740-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radding, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.