TY - BOOK AU - TI - Wandering peoples: colonialism, ethnic spaces, and ecological frontiers in northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 SN - 0822319071 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - TH435 P 46 1997 U1 - 305.8/0097217 20 PY - 1997/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Ethnicity KW - Mexico KW - Sonora (State) KW - Social ecology KW - Social change KW - Social classes KW - Indians of Mexico KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Sonora (Mexico : State) KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-390) and index N2 - "Balanced and thorough work on colonial and early-19th-century Sonora and Sinaloa combines historical and ethnohistorical methodologies, narratives, statistical data, and analysis of the changing relations among Indians, villagers, miners, missionaries, and the state. Describes and analyzes the changes in Indian communities. Discussion of the transition between colony and independent Mexico provides a vision of changes and continuities. Exceptionally wide collection of sources"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 ER -