Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain (Latin American Landscapes)
University of Arizona Press
ISBN13:
9780816529896
$42.80
Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who harvested the desert as bountiful in its material resources and sacred spaces. Author Cynthia Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to re-create the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and the direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and--after European contact--livestock and extractive industries. She returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended.
- | Author: Cynthia Radding
- | Publisher: University of Arizona Press
- | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/History
- | ISBN-10: 0816529892
- | ISBN-13: 9780816529896
- Author:
- Cynthia Radding
- Publisher:
- University of Arizona Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 11, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/History
- ISBN-10:
- 0816529892
- ISBN-13:
- 9780816529896