Author: William Emery DoolittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Settlements and the Development of Statelets in Sonora, Mexico
Author: William Emery DoolittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Settlements and the Development of "statelets" in Sonora, Mexico
Author: William E. DoolittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Settlements and the Development of Statelets in Sonora, Mexico
Author: William Emery DoolittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico
Author: William E. DoolittlePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816510105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
“[This book] presents a great amount of new information for a poorly known or understood area of northern Mexico, and provides a pleasant integration of the methods and theories of anthropology, geography, and ecology in a well-organized manner. . . . This report represents an important contribution to our understanding of cultural evolution and environmental adaptation in the Valley of Sonora and lays a strong framework for future studies and discussions.”—Journal of Arizona History
Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World
Author: Charles D. TromboldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521383374
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume, originally published in 1991, describe past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.
Wandering Peoples
Author: Cynthia Radding MurrietaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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.
Sonora
Author: Robert C. WestPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292767277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This cultural and historical geography of Sonora explores the region’s dual personality—with modern life existing alongside its colonial past. A land where some streams ran with gold. A landscape nearly empty of inhabitants in the wake of Apache raids from the north. And a former desert transformed by irrigation into vast fields of wheat and cotton. This was and is the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico. Robert C. West explores the dual geographic "personality" of this part of Mexico's northern frontier. Utilizing the idea of "old" and "new" landscapes, he describes two Sonoras—to the east, a semiarid to subhumid mountainous region that reached its peak of development in the colonial era; and, to the west, a desert region that has become a major agricultural producer and the modern center of economic and cultural activity. After a description of the physical and biotic aspects of Sonora, West describes the aboriginal farming cultures that inhabited eastern Sonora before the Spanish conquest. He then traces the spread of Jesuit missions and Spanish mining and ranching communities. He charts the decline of eastern Sonora with the coming of Apache and Seri raids during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And he shows how western Sonora became one of Mexico's most powerful political and economic entities in the twentieth century.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Author: Bruce G. TriggerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521351652
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica
Author: Walter Robert Thurmond WitscheyPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081087167X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the "Neolithic Revolution." The changes included domestication of plants and animals, leading to agriculture, husbandry, and eventually sedentary village life. These developments set the stage for the growth of cities, social stratification, craft specialization, warfare, writing, mathematics, and astronomy, or what we call the rise of civilization. These changes forever transformed humankind. The Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica covers the history of Mesoamerica through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to Mesoamerica. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mesoamerica.
The Yaquis and the Empire
Author: Raphael Brewster FolsomPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish interactions from first contact in 1533 through Mexican independence in 1821. The Yaquis and the Empire is the first major publication to deal with the colonial history of the Yaqui people in more than thirty years and presents a finely wrought portrait of the colonial experience of the indigenous peoples of Mexico's Yaqui River Valley. In examining native engagement with the forces of the Spanish empire, Raphael Brewster Folsom identifies three ironies that emerged from the dynamic and ambiguous relationship of the Yaquis and their conquerors: the strategic use by the Yaquis of both resistance and collaboration; the intertwined roles of violence and negotiation in the colonial pact; and the surprising ability of the imperial power to remain effective despite its general weakness. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University