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"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.
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Social conditions, History, Indians of Mexico, Social change, Social classes, Social ecology, Ethnic relations, Ethnicity, Anthropology, Applied ecology, Ethnic studies, Ecological Anthropology, Ethnic Sociology, Sonora (State), Social Science, Archaeology / Anthropology, Sociology, Central America, South America, Latin America - Mexico, Anthropology - Cultural, American Studies, Anthropology/Ethnography, History, Latin American, Ethnic Studies - General, Mexico, Human ecology, Social classes, mexico, Indians of mexico, history, Indians of mexico, social conditions, Sonora (mexico : state), Ethnicity--mexico--sonora (state), Social ecology--mexico--sonora (state), Social change--mexico--sonora (state), Social classes--mexico--sonora (state), Indians of mexico--history, Indians of mexico--mexico--sonora (state)--history, Indians of mexico--social conditions, Indians of mexico--mexico--sonora (state)--social conditions, Gn560.m6 r33 1997, 305.8/0097217Showing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-390) and index.
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Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, Cynthia Radding explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities during the long transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule.
Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them.
Radding describes this colonial mission not merely as an instance of Iberian expansion but as a site of cultural and political confrontation. This alternative vision of colonialism emphasizes the economic links between mission communities and Spanish mercantilist policies, the biological consequences of the Spanish policy of forced congregacion, and the cultural and ecological displacements set in motion by the practices of discipline and surveillance established by the religious orders.
Addressing wider issues pertaining to ethnic identities and to ecological and cultural borders, Radding's analysis also underscores the parallel production of colonial and subaltern texts during the course of a 150-year struggle for power and survival.
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