Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

by Cynthia Radding

Book Overview

Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican borderlands for migrants seeking shelter and a new life.

Bountiful Deserts foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples in the arid lands of northwestern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529892
• ISBN13: 9780816529896
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"