From Fire to Flood: Historic Human Destruction of Sonoran Desert Riverine Oases

Author(s): Henry F. Dobyns

Editor(s): Lowell John Bean; Thomas C. Blackburn

Year: 1981

Summary

This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each chapter attempts to place significant environmental events in one sector of the Sonoran Desert in temporal and casual perspective.

This volume emphasizes several relationships between Indoamerican tribal peoples and their desert environment. For that reason, and because the author earned academic degrees in anthropology, some readers will consider this book to be anthropology. Certainly it is not that class of ethnology characterized by reluctance to rely upon documentation produced and preserved by participants in a different culture (Morgan 1966:92). In as much as the chapters which follow discuss matters ecological, some readers will label this effort as "ecological anthropology."

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From Fire to Flood: Historic Human Destruction of Sonoran Desert Riverine Oases. Henry F. Dobyns, Lowell John Bean, Thomas C. Blackburn. 1981 ( tDAR id: 428792) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8428792

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Keywords

Culture
Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Encampment • Historic Structure • Mill • Mine • Non-Domestic Structures • Railroad • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Settlements • Structure • Trail • Water Control Feature

Investigation Types
Environment Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research • Records Search / Inventory Checking

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • Colorado River • Gila River • Hassayampa Creek • Mojave Valley • New Mexico (State / Territory) • San Francisco River • San Pedro River • Sonoran Desert

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -119.048; min lat: 31.203 ; max long: -102.876; max lat: 35.246 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Repository(s): Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ

Prepared By(s): Ballena Press

Record Identifiers

Salt River Project Library Call No.(s): 3A.209

Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No.(s): 20

Salt River Project Library Barcode No.(s): 00030767

Salt River Project Catalog No.(s): 52059 52060

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