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Bountiful Deserts
2022
Overview
Common understandings drawn from biblical references,
literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far
from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention
focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the
perils of the desert in the northern Mexican borderlands for
migrants seeking shelter and a new life. Bountiful Deserts
foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples in the arid lands
of northwestern Mexico, for whom the desert was anything but barren
or empty. Instead, they nurtured and harvested the desert as a
bountiful and sacred space. Drawing together historical texts and
oral testimonies, archaeology, and natural history, author Cynthia
Radding develops the relationships between people and plants and
the ways that Indigenous people sustained their worlds before
European contact through the changes set in motion by Spanish
encounters, highlighting the long process of colonial conflicts and
adaptations over more than two centuries. This work reveals the
spiritual power of deserts by weaving together the cultural
practices of historical peoples and contemporary living
communities, centered especially on the Yaqui/Yoeme and
Mayo/Yoreme. Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology,
geography, and ecology to paint an expansive picture of Indigenous
worlds before and during colonial encounters. She re-creates the
Indigenous worlds in both their spiritual and material realms,
bringing together the analytical dimension of scientific research
and the wisdom of oral traditions in its exploration of different
kinds of knowledge about the natural world.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Publisher
University of Arizona Press,The University of Arizona Press
Subject
ISBN
9780816546923, 0816546924, 9780816529896, 0816529892, 9780816546916, 0816546916
