Twilight of the mission frontier : shifting interethnic alliances and social organization in Sonora, 1768-1855 / by José Refugio De la Torre Curiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torre Curiel, José Refugio de la.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franciscans--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.

Franciscans.

Franciscans--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--19th century.

Missions--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--18th century.

Missions.

Missions--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.

Sonora (Mexico : State)--Ethnic relations--History--18th century.

Sonora (Mexico : State).

Sonora (Mexico : State)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xxx, 323 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and modern society. At the same time, new forms of what this book identifies as pluriethnic mobility also emerged. Franciscan missionaries and mission residents deployed diverse strategies to cope with these changes and results varied from region to region, depending on such factors as the missionaries' backgrounds, Indian responses to mission life, local economic arrangements, and cultural exchanges between Indians and Spaniards.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Representing the Sonoran Landscape: Geographical Descriptions of Sonora in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 2. Population Trends in the Mission Districts of Sonora

Chapter 3. Changes in the Lifeways of Indian Towns

Chapter 4. Sonora’s Frontier Economy in the Late Colonial Period: A Captive Trade Network

Chapter 5. Local Adaptations of the Franciscan Mission Regime

Chapter 6. Leaving Sonora

Conclusions

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-301) and index.

ISBN:

9780804787321

0804787328

OCLC:

855969740