Reading Cultural Landscapes in Time and Space: Ostimuri in Historical Archives and Archaeological Remains

Summary

This paper discusses the historical construction of landscapes in the borderlands of northwestern Mexico, with a particular focus on the colonial Province of Ostimuri, bounded by the Yaqui, Mayo, and Fuerte rivers. In honor of Carroll Riley, the paper presents original research in historical archives, analyzed in the context of archaeological, ecological, and ethnographic literatures, to explain the formation of this space as a region and to explore both the vulnerabilities and the resilience of its peoples. Within this multi-disciplinary framework, the paper considers critically different methods of analysis and types of archival and non-textual evidence that contribute to the re-construction of historical processes of colonial encounter and cultural re-creation.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 18716