Wandering peoples
Subtitle: colonialism, ethnic spaces, and ecological frontiers in northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850
By: Cynthia Radding.
Series: Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Social ecology -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Social change -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Social classes -- Mexico -- Sonora (State); Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Social conditions.; Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- History.; Sonora (Mexico : State) -- History.; Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions.; Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "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 changes in Indian communities. Discussion of the transition between colony and independent Mexico provides a vision of changes and continuities. Exceptionally wide collection of sources"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-390) and index.