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Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (Latin America Otherwise)

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Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers within the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Specializing in 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 all over the long transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule. All the way through 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 conform and face up to them.
Radding describes this colonial mission not merely for example of Iberian expansion but as a web page of cultural and political war of words. This alternative vision of colonialism emphasizes the industrial links between mission communities and Spanish mercantilist policies, the biological consequences of the Spanish policy of forced congregación, 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 all over the course of a 150-year struggle for power and survival.

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