Author: Fernando Ocaranza
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Fernando Ocaranza
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Category : California
Languages : es
Pages : 376

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Author: Pan American Union
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Author: David Yetman
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816501092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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In 1600 they were the largest, most technologically advanced indigenous group in northwest Mexico, but today, though their descendants presumably live on in Sonora, almost no one claims descent from the Ópatas. The Ópatas seem to have “disappeared” as an ethnic group, their languages forgotten except for the names of the towns, plants, and geography of the Opatería, where they lived. Why did the Ópatas disappear from the historical record while their neighbors survived? David Yetman, a leading ethnobotanist who has traveled extensively in Sonora, consulted more than two hundred archival sources to answer this question. The result is an accessible ethnohistory of the Ópatas, one that embraces historical complexity with an eye toward Opatan strategies of resistance and assimilation. Yetman’s account takes us through the Opatans’ initial encounters with the conquistadors, their resettlement in Jesuit missions, clashes with Apaches, their recruitment as miners, and several failed rebellions, and ultimately arrives at an explanation for their “disappearance.” Yetman’s account is bolstered by conversations with present-day residents of the Opatería and includes a valuable appendix on the languages of the Opatería by linguistic anthropologist David Shaul. One of the few studies devoted exclusively to this indigenous group, The Ópatas: In Search of a Sonoran People marks a significant contribution to the literature on the history of the greater Southwest.

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Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521652049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Author: Edward H. Spicer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816551081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.

Author: Juan Nentvig
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Just as the Rudo Ensayo is more an historic document than a mere history, so this new translation of it is more a documented interpretation than simply a new translation. The translator/editors bring their expert knowledge of the area, the language, and the history to every page of Nentvig's manuscript. Pradeau and Rasmussen have clarified many of the ambiguities of earlier translations by Smith (1863) and Guiteras (1894), and have added substantial annotations to the author's accounts of fauna and flora, native culture, and Spanish outposts. An incomparable record of a twelve-year mission in 18th century Sonora, the Rudo Ensayo as rendered in modern English is also a fascinating travelogue through an untamed land.

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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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