Laurie Weinstein

Native Peoples of the Southwest

Negotiating Land, Water, and Ethnicities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For all peoples on all continents and for all times, water has been the blood of life. It is fitting then, that this book about the peoples of the Southwest be dedicated to an examination of water in a land that has historically been dry, making the need to locate water supplies essential. The Southwest became an important frontier for Spanish and then Anglo explorers and colonizers who battled with native occupants for strategic locations. Each one of these groups who made the Southwest their home were ethnically quite different. They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views. Beginning with discussion of innovative prehistoric land and water use, the book describes the ways in which early farmers learned how to harness the precious drops of water for their fields. The story then continues with views from the Pueblos and beyond as the living sacredness of earth's resource is described by native peoples. This emic view, however, is often in conflict with the various legal definitions of resources carved by federal, state and local officials and developers. The book goes on to examine the background of contemporary land conflicts and water litigation between numerous contestants: Indian, Hispanic, and Anglo. The book ends with articles that attest to the clever ways in which ethnicity is configured and boldly proclaimed in order to reclaim privilege.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780897899048
• ISBN-10: 0897899040
• Artikelnr.: 21621115

Autorenporträt

LAURIE WEINSTEIN is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Western Connecticut State University where she directs the Archaeology program and co-directs the Women's Studies program.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Introduction Preface O'odham Dances by Ofelia Zepeda Introduction
The Process of Becoming Prehistoric Environment and Agriculture in the
Hohokam of South Arizona by Suzanne K. Fish and Paul Fish Soaking It in:
Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Lessons of Water Management and Landscape
Ecology by Kurt Anschuetz Views for the Pueblos and Beyond Native
Seeds/Search and a Tohono O'odham Perspective by Angelo Joaquin The Akimel
O'othom by Nathan Allen Hopi and Zuni Cultural Landscapes: Implications of
History and Scale for Cultural Resources Management by T. J. Ferguson and
Roger Anyon The Melting Pot: Water, Land, and Conflict in Historical
Perspective Traditional Use in a Changing Landscape by Frances Levine Myth
and History of a Southwestern Land Grant by Marianne Stoller Collaborative
Conservation: Peace or Participation: The View from Los Ojos by Maria
Varela The Hopi and Navaho Land Dispute from Historic through Contemporary
Times by David Brugge The Matter Was Never Resolved: The Casta System in
Colonial New Mexico, 1693-1823 by Adrian Bustamante Fiesta Time and Plaza
Space: Resistence and Accomodation in a Tourist Town by Sylvia Rodriguez
Appendix