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Twilight of the mission frontier : shifting interethnic alliances and social organization in Sonora, 1768-1855 / by José Refugio De la Torre Curiel.
LIBRA F1346 .T67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torre Curiel, José Refugio de la.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.
- Missions.
- Missions--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--19th century.
- Franciscans--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.
- Franciscans.
- Franciscans--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--19th century.
- Indians of Mexico--Missions--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Missions--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--19th century.
- Social structure--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.
- Social structure.
- Social structure--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--19th century.
- History.
- Indians of Mexico--Missions.
- Sonora (Mexico : State)--Ethnic relations--History--18th century.
- Sonora (Mexico : State).
- Sonora (Mexico : State)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- Mexico--Sonora (State).
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Representing the Sonoran Landscape: Geographical Descriptions of Sonora in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1
- A Note on the Identification of Indian Groups in Sonora 3
- The Creation of Space 6
- The Early Eighteenth Century 9
- The Effects of Peace in the Mid-Eighteenth Century 17
- Spatial Organization Projects in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 28
- The Reinvention of Sonora 47
- Chapter 2 Population Trends in the Mission Districts of Sonora 49
- The Franciscan Missions in Sonora after 1767 51
- Pimería Alta 52
- Pimería Baja 59
- Opatería 66
- Chapter 3 Changes in the Lifeways of Indian Towns 77
- Loving God in Indian Country 79
- The Ambiguity of Location: Living among Christians versus Becoming a Christian 83
- Changes in Governing Structures of Indian Communities 96
- Changes in the Everyday life of Frontier Societies 104
- Indian and Spanish Material Culture 106
- Frontier Horizontal Mobility 114
- Interethnic Alliances in the Transformation of Sonora's Northern Frontier 122
- Pluriethnic Bands in Sonora 123
- The Protector of Indians 139
- When Mission Residents Ceased To Be "Mission Indians" 143
- Chapter 4 Sonora's Frontier Economy in the Late Colonial Period: A Captive Trade Network 145
- The Economic Transition as a Conceptual Problem 146
- The Sonoran Economy in the Mid-Eighteenth Century 150
- Scarce Currency and the "Labyrinth of Prices" 154
- The Fagoaga-Ximénez Company and Sonora's Captive Clientele 160
- Price Increases: Taxes, Freight Charges, and Forms of Fraud 163
- Payment Systems for Goods and Wages 176
- Commerce and Forms of Coercion 185
- Chapter 5 Local Adaptations of the Franciscan Mission Regime 187
- The Mission Regime When the Franciscans Arrived in Sonora 189
- New Mode of Governance: Custody of San Carlos dc Sonora 202
- Reaction against the Custody 206
- Dissolution of the Custody 212
- Changes in Mission Administration and Generational Crisis 213
- The Communal Properties of Franciscan Missions in Sonora 224
- Generational Crisis in the Pimería Alta Missionary District 233
- Chapter 6 Leaving Sonora 243
- The Expulsion of Spaniards and Its Aftermath in Pimería Alta .... 247 Secularism and Mission Secularization in Pimería Baja and Opatería 256.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804785044
- 080478504X
- OCLC:
- 796001903
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