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13 produkter
Mayo Ethnobotany
Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico
Av David Yetman, Thomas R. Van Devender
Inbunden, 2002
698 kr
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The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture …
Mayo Ethnobotany
Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico
Av Thomas R. Van Devender, David Yetman
E-bok, 2002
849 kr
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The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture …
Great Cacti
Ethnobotany and Biogeography
Av David Yetman
Inbunden, 2008
705 kr
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Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to Argentina—often in rough terrain and on barren, parched soils, places inhospitable to people. But as David Yetman shows, many of these tall plants have contributed …
Organ Pipe Cactus
Av David Yetman
Häftad, 2006
170 kr
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Distinguished by its slender vertical branches, which resemble the tubes of a pipe organ, and growing to the imposing height of 15 to more than 30 feet, it’s obvious how the organ pipe cactus got its name. In the United States, these spectacular and intriguing plants are found exclusively in a …
Saguaro Cactus
A Natural History
Av David Yetman, Alberto Búrquez m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
272 kr
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The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape - its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human - has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar …
Mexico's Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán
From Deserts to Clouds
Av David Yetman, Alberto Búrquez
Häftad, 2023
353 kr
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Mexico’s Valleys of CuicatlÁn and TehuacÁn: From Deserts to Clouds provides an accessible and photographic view of the culture, history, and environment of an extraordinary region of southern Mexico. The Valleys of CuicatlÁn and TehuacÁn are lauded by botanists for their spectacular plant …
Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes
A Natural History of Bursera
Av Judith X. Becerra, David Yetman
Häftad, 2024
328 kr
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Predominantly native to the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the various species of Bursera have been prized throughout history for their distinctive aromas, medicinal properties, workable wood, and attractive appearance. Despite its extensive past and current use as incense in religious …
Sonora
An Intimate Geography
Av David Yetman
Häftad, 1999
386 kr
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This account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, describes blistering deserts, alpine mountains, tropical river valleys, and arid coastlines, and relates the lives and stories of cattlemen, lumbermen, fishermen, weavers, cobblers, musicians, bootleggers, and Indians.
Conflict in Colonial Sonora
Indians, Priests, and Settlers
Av David Yetman
Häftad, 2020
338 kr
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups - Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. Priests hoped to pacify Indians, who in turn resisted the missionary clergy. Settlers, who often encountered …
Conflict in Colonial Sonora
Indians, Priests, and Settlers
Av David Yetman
E-bok, 2012
357 kr
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups—Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. Priests hoped to pacify Indians, who in turn resisted the missionary clergy. Settlers, who often encountered …
GENTRY'S RIO MAYO PLANTS
Av The University of Arizona Press, Paul S. Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
928 kr
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The Rio Mayo region of northwestern Mexico is a major geographic area whose natural history remains poorly known to outsiders. Lying in a region where desert and tropical, northern and southern, and continental and coastal species converge, it boasts an abundance of flora first documented by Howard …
Natural Landmarks of Arizona
Av David Yetman
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Natural Landmarks of Arizona celebrates the vast geological past of Arizona’s natural monuments through the eyes of a celebrated storyteller who has called Arizona home for most of his life. David Yetman shows us how Arizona’s most iconic landmarks were formed millions of years ago and sheds light …
