Huépac Revisited: Cultural Remapping of a Sonoran Townscape

A select group of ethnographers have studied Sonoran towns and culture, including Roger Owen (1959) who evaluated Ópata assimilation in a remote village of La Serrana, Miguel León-Portilla (1972) who argued for recognition of a "norteño" regional culture, Jeanne Simonelli (1986) who resear...

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Published in:Journal of the Southwest 2009-06, Vol.51 (2), p.137-164
Main Authors: Arreola, Daniel D, Doolittle, William E, Sutton, Lindsey, Fernandez, Arianna, Finn, John, Smith, Claire, Allen, Casey
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Built environment
Cattle
Company business management
Cultural change
Cultural groups
Group identity
Landscape changes
Management
Morphology
Personality
Politics
Rural population
Social aspects
Social identity
Towns
Village communities
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Summary:A select group of ethnographers have studied Sonoran towns and culture, including Roger Owen (1959) who evaluated Ópata assimilation in a remote village of La Serrana, Miguel León-Portilla (1972) who argued for recognition of a "norteño" regional culture, Jeanne Simonelli (1986) who researched the social past and present in the Sonora River valley town of Baviácora, Thomas Sheridan (1988) who explored issues of political ecology in the peasant community of Cucurpe, and Josiah Heyman (1991) who investigated industrial workers and mobility in the border town of Agua Prieta. [...] we engage the writings of fellow geographers Robert West (1993), who argued for a personality of place perspective to understand Sonora, and Nina Veregge (1993), who created a morphological approach to explain changing Greater Southwestern townscapes.
ISSN:0894-8410
2158-1371
2158-1371
DOI:10.1353/jsw.2009.0003