Cynthia Radding
Biographic Data
| ID | 458530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Radding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Radding |
| SIGNATURE | RADDING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529– 1800. 2024. By Oriol Ambrogio Gali
Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529– 1800. 2024. By Oriol Ambrogio Gali. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 329pp. $70 (hardcover or e- book)
I n M emoriam: Eric Van Young 1946–2024
s departure from this life on December 20, 2024, was greeted with expressions of admiration and warm memories mixed with sorrow among communities
Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis: Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito
Jared Orsi's sensitive portrait of Quitobaquito builds a stirring tribute to the Tohono O'odham and Hia C'ed O'odham, whose ancestral territory encompassed northwestern Sonora and southwestern Arizona. His clarion call to recover the lost histories of a desert oasis raises a well-researched critique of attempts by the National Park Service (NPS) to render Quitobaquito a wilderness within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The book interweav…
Linda Biesele Hall (1939-2022)
Enduring Indigenous Histories across the Americas
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Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, Edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner
Journal Article Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner Get access Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest Edited by Michael D. Mathiowetz and Andrew D. Turner (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. viii + 336 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, maps, index. $39.95, paper.) Cynthia…
Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
This collaborative Oxford Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World integrates interdisciplinary approaches to illustrate the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and connected them to global circuits of exchange and migration in the early modern world, extending from the fifteenth to the nineteenth-centuries. It brings together specialists in the Spanish and Portuguese imperial spheres, their geographic and cultural …
The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World
This collaborative Oxford Handbook of Borderlands in the Iberian World integrates interdisciplinary approaches to illustrate the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and connected them to global circuits of exchange and migration in the early modern world, extending from the fifteenth to the nineteenth-centuries. It brings together specialists in the Spanish and Portuguese imperial spheres, their geographic and cultural …
The Spanish Empire’s Southernmost Frontiers: From Arauco to the Strait of Magellan
After the 1598 Araucanian rebellion, the Bío Bío River remained as the imperial southernmost frontier during Spanish rule. However, the territory between Bío Bío River and Tierra del Fuego comprised three differentiated groups: the Araucanos, in northern Toltén River; the Huilliches, in the south; and the Austral Canoeros in the insular region, or mobile of Aysén. Although the Araucanía was traditionally considered the frontier with the Spanish E…
Colonization, Mediation, and Mestizaje in the Borderlands of Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais, Brazil
This research brings together the colonization of existing indigenous peoples in the Sertões do Leste (the eastern backlands of Brazil) and the formation of a national Brazilian narrative. Violence, extermination, and slavery became frequent in the area dating from the Carta Régia of 1808, which declared a “Just War” against the “Cannibal Botocudos.” Following the Law of Catechesis of 1845, such measures were replaced by the discourse of “civiliz…
Frontier Missions in South America: Impositions, Adaptations, and Appropriations
This article examines the establishment of frontier missions in South America, with emphasis on the strategies used in the interactions between Jesuit missionaries and indigenous peoples. It explores three foundational aspects of the organization of the missions: impositions, adaptations, and appropriations. Imposition refers to actions undertaken by missionaries within the framework of colonial regulations, in collaboration with members of the i…
Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Throughout its colonial history, much of Portuguese America’s sparsely populated territory remained incompletely colonized, the province of autonomous and semiautonomous Indians. In a policy shift after 1750, the implications of which remain poorly understood, the Portuguese Crown intensified efforts to control Brazil’s many inland frontiers. This chapter focuses on one of these regions, the rugged mountains separating the captaincies of Rio de J…
Leyendo los paisajes en los archivos históricos: Los jesuitas y los pueblos de indios en la producción del espacio en el noroeste de Nueva España
El presente artículo integra la ciencia de la temprana modernidad, la obra jesuítica en las Américas, y la historia ambiental centrada en los espacios socialmente producidos en los entornos de las misiones del noroeste de Nueva España. Construye el argumento alrededor de la producción de conocimientos fincados en la ecología del lugar, partiendo del concepto histórico del espacio a partir de los paisajes culturales de los pueblos de indios que se…
Naturalizing Borderlands in Time and Space: Imperial Frontiers and Historical Indigeneities in the America
o artigo integra os conceitos de áreas de fronteiras ecológicas e culturais com os de fronteiras imperiais, bem como a criação e a emergência de identidades étnicas por meio de processos históricos de colonialismo e resiliência. As ideias apresentadas aqui fluem das experiências da autora em suas investigações nos ambientes áridos do noroeste do México e nas terras baixas subtropicais do Oriente da Bolívia, completadas por um resumo da literatura…
Sobre Gilberto López Castillo, Composición de tierras y tendencias de poblamiento hispano en la franja costera: Culiacán y Chiametla, siglos XVII y XVIII
Indigenous Landscapes in Northwestern New Spain: Environmental History through Contested Boundaries and Colonial Land Claims
Indigenous Landscapes in Northwestern New SpainEnvironmental History through Contested Boundaries and Colonial Land Claims Cynthia Radding (bio) This article builds an environmental history from below by integrating the practices of indigenous peoples in the production of cultural landscapes with the values they ascribed to the land itself and to the organization of labor that made it possible for them to sustain communities and mixed agrarian ec…
Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859
Journal Article Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859 Get access Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859 . By Zappia Natale A. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . xiii + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 .) Cynthia Radding Cynthia Radding University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill Search for o…
Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence
What do we mean by territoriality and how do we connect territory, landscape, and borderlands in the ways in which we build historical narratives? Thinking about the title of this volume in reference to the northern borderlands of Mexico brought me back to the material features of land forms, vegetational patterns, stream flows, and water management systems, which are based on the natural forces of geology and climate. Nevertheless, their changin…
Introduction: Borderlands in a Global Perspective
In the winter of 1716–17 Lady Mary Montague crossed the border dividing the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire. As she noted in a letter to Alexander Pope, dated February 12, 1717, decades of conflict between the two empires had caused the belligerents to police the border with particular care. The Habsburg governor and the Ottoman Bas sa negotiated, via courier, a place along the border frontier where Montague and her husband, Richard Wortle…
Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence
Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the fir
Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader
Book Review| January 01 2013 Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Edited by Dym, Jordana and Offen, Karl. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xix + 338 pp., foreword, introduction, maps, illustrations, index. $39.00 paper.) Cynthia Radding Cynthia Radding Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 130–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-18…
The Children of Mayahuel: Agaves, Human Cultures, and Desert Landscapes in Northern Mexico
This article brings together research in ethnobotany, ecology, and history to show the mutually reinforcing relations between humans and agaves. Its theoretical framework integrates three foundational concepts relating to the production of space, the evolution of life-forms, and the creation of desert landscapes. Centered on the mutually formative relations between the agave family of plants and both indigenous and colonial populations in norther…
David J. Weber (1940-2010)
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Las fronteras y la Geografia e la Historia de las Américas: "Pueblos y espacios del norte de Mexico y del gran "pantanal brasileiro
The comparative theme borders on the geography and history of the Americas opened the need to read the historiography, the text and the maps with a focus on physical and cultural spaces that distinguished the border areas of the subcontinent. The transformation processes of border areas are noticed when we look at the physical geography and social networks that generated the cultural landscape while usufruct established territories, settle, and s…
Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1 1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19 2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55 3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89 4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117 5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and Mobilization 162 6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge…
Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the fir
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850
The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora, Mexico
Crosses, Caves, and Matachinis: Divergent Appropriations of Catholic Discourse in Northwestern New Spain
Christianity became wholeheartedly an element of indigenous culture. The Christian miracle was a given integrated into daily life as it was into the landscape, space and time of the pueblo . Recent ethnohistorical trends point to a renewed interest in the complex interplay of beliefs and ritual practices that gave rise to multiple expressions of religiosity in different temporal and spatial settings of colonial America. Religion provides a rich t…
Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic Get access Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Radding Cynthia. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xxiv + 431 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $89.96, cloth; $24.95, paper.) Rachel St. John Rachel St. John Harv…
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850
Naturalizing Borderlands in Time and Space: Imperial Frontiers and Historical Indigeneities in the America
o artigo integra os conceitos de áreas de fronteiras ecológicas e culturais com os de fronteiras imperiais, bem como a criação e a emergência de identidades étnicas por meio de processos históricos de colonialismo e resiliência. As ideias apresentadas aqui fluem das experiências da autora em suas investigações nos ambientes áridos do noroeste do México e nas terras baixas subtropicais do Oriente da Bolívia, completadas por um resumo da literatura…
To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla
To Defend Our Water is an environmental history that is especially attentive to the social and political relations that surround the use of water in colonial indigenous communities and private estates in the central highlands of Mexico. Its content is summarized in the author’s simple enunciatory statement: “[t]his book is about water and power” (p. ix). This carefully constructed monograph is solidly based on archival evidence of both legal and …
Enduring Indigenous Histories across the Americas
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Frontier Missions in South America: Impositions, Adaptations, and Appropriations
This article examines the establishment of frontier missions in South America, with emphasis on the strategies used in the interactions between Jesuit missionaries and indigenous peoples. It explores three foundational aspects of the organization of the missions: impositions, adaptations, and appropriations. Imposition refers to actions undertaken by missionaries within the framework of colonial regulations, in collaboration with members of the i…
Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Throughout its colonial history, much of Portuguese America’s sparsely populated territory remained incompletely colonized, the province of autonomous and semiautonomous Indians. In a policy shift after 1750, the implications of which remain poorly understood, the Portuguese Crown intensified efforts to control Brazil’s many inland frontiers. This chapter focuses on one of these regions, the rugged mountains separating the captaincies of Rio de J…
The Children of Mayahuel: Agaves, Human Cultures, and Desert Landscapes in Northern Mexico
This article brings together research in ethnobotany, ecology, and history to show the mutually reinforcing relations between humans and agaves. Its theoretical framework integrates three foundational concepts relating to the production of space, the evolution of life-forms, and the creation of desert landscapes. Centered on the mutually formative relations between the agave family of plants and both indigenous and colonial populations in norther…
Las fronteras y la Geografia e la Historia de las Américas: "Pueblos y espacios del norte de Mexico y del gran "pantanal brasileiro
The comparative theme borders on the geography and history of the Americas opened the need to read the historiography, the text and the maps with a focus on physical and cultural spaces that distinguished the border areas of the subcontinent. The transformation processes of border areas are noticed when we look at the physical geography and social networks that generated the cultural landscape while usufruct established territories, settle, and s…
From the Counting House to the Field and Loom: Ecologies, Cultures, and Economies in the Missions of Sonora (Mexico) and Chiquitanía (Bolivia)
Comparative histories of colonial frontiers are raising provocative new questions for scholars working on the boundaries of British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese America.1 Some of the classic themes of borderlands history are receiving fresh scrutiny from different disciplinary and thematic perspectives, such that military encounters and territorial conquests are recast not as singular events but as conflictive processes conditioned by the env…
The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora, Mexico
On the Periphery of Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Sonora and Sinaloa 1810-1877
Sonora y los sonorenses: El Proceso Social De La Revolución De 1910
Estudio historiográfico. La revolución origina una nueva burguesía progresista que toma el poder. Los sonorenses triunfaron porque enfocaron la economía hacia el mo¬delo capitalista y construyeron un nuevo consenso político, aliándose con la clase trabajadora; su Estado preservó mejor la planta productiva ante los desórdenes revolucionarios y el grupo fue capaz de profesionalizar al ejercito sonorense. Ellos renovaron la burguesía y dirigieron el…
"Secret Judgments of God": Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America
“Secret Judgments of God”: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America
Work, labour and the market: The responses of farmers and semi‐nomadic peoples to colonialism in North‐West Mexico
Haciendas y comunidades indígenas en el sur de Zacatecas: Sociedad Y Economía Colonial, 1600-1820
The Spanish Frontier in North America
La población de América Latina. Desde los tiempos precolombinos al año 2025
Entre el desierto y la sierra: Las naciones O'odham y Tegüima de Sonora, 1530-1840
Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850
Cultural Dialogues: Recent Trends in Mesoamerican Ethnohistory
When Fray Bernardino de Sahagun set out to compile his Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana, he assembled the flower of the surviving Mexica nobility in Tlatelolco, the great Aztec marketplace converted into a Franciscan convent. Sahagun taught them to write their Nahua language in Latin script and spent three decades (1555 to 1585) laboriously copying and preserving their collective testimonies and recollections
Crosses, Caves, and Matachinis: Divergent Appropriations of Catholic Discourse in Northwestern New Spain
Christianity became wholeheartedly an element of indigenous culture. The Christian miracle was a given integrated into daily life as it was into the landscape, space and time of the pueblo . Recent ethnohistorical trends point to a renewed interest in the complex interplay of beliefs and ritual practices that gave rise to multiple expressions of religiosity in different temporal and spatial settings of colonial America. Religion provides a rich t…
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850
Indian Women of Early Mexico
Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwest Mexico, 1700-1850
Insurgencia y autonomía: Historia De Los Pueblos Yaquis, 1821-1910
Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encounters: The Spanish Borderlands of North America
Review Article| October 01 2000 Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encounters: The Spanish Borderlands of North America Cynthia Radding Cynthia Radding Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 767–775. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-767 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Cynthia Radding; Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encoun…
Historical Perspectives on Gender, Security, and Technology: Gathering, Weaving, and Subsistence in Colonial Mission Communities of Bolivia
From the Counting House to the Field and Loom: Ecologies, Cultures, and Economies in the Missions of Sonora (Mexico) and Chiquitanía (Bolivia)
Comparative histories of colonial frontiers are raising provocative new questions for scholars working on the boundaries of British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese America.1 Some of the classic themes of borderlands history are receiving fresh scrutiny from different disciplinary and thematic perspectives, such that military encounters and territorial conquests are recast not as singular events but as conflictive processes conditioned by the env…
To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla
To Defend Our Water is an environmental history that is especially attentive to the social and political relations that surround the use of water in colonial indigenous communities and private estates in the central highlands of Mexico. Its content is summarized in the author’s simple enunciatory statement: “[t]his book is about water and power” (p. ix). This carefully constructed monograph is solidly based on archival evidence of both legal and …
The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycurúan Experience
The Chaco Mission Frontier is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of anthropologically informed, documented histories of missions in the Americas. James Saeger’s expertise focuses on the interior lowlands of South America, in particular, the riverine and plains environment of the Chaco, lying in the modern nations of Paraguay, Argentina, and a small portion of southeastern Bolivia. The Guaycurúan ethnic bands who people Saeger’s story, unlik…
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