Introduction: The Social Ecology of the Sonoran Frontier -- pt. 1. Los Sonoras and the Iberian Invasion of Northwestern Mexico. 1. Ethnic Frontiers in the Sonoran Desert. 2. Amerindian Economy in Sonora. 3. Native Livelihood and the Colonial Economy -- pt. 2. The Intimate Sphere of Ethnicity: Household and Community. 4. Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Formation in Sonora. 5. "Gypseys" and Villagers: Shifting Communities and Changing Ethnic Identities in Highland Sonora -- pt. 3. Rival Proprietors and Changing Forms of Land Tenure. 6. Land and the Indian Comun. 7. Peasants, Hacendados, and Merchants: The Cultural Differentiation of Sonoran Society -- pt. 4. Ethnogenesis and Resistant Adaptation
Summary
"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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-390) and index
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