{"product_id":"peoples-of-a-sonoran-desert-oasis-volume-6-recovering-the-lost-history-and-culture-of-quitobaquito-hardback-9780806192949","title":"Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6; Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito (Hardback) 9780806192949","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePeoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRecovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJared Orsi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806192949\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages, 21 b\u0026amp;w illus., 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis gets to the heart of one of the great debates in the history of conservation: whether there are any true ‘wildernesses’—pristine natural areas untouched by human hands—and, when we set aside protected areas like national parks, whether we should remove evidence of human occupation. The author does a marvelous job weaving O’odham oral traditions and histories into this historical account of Quitobaquito.”—Thomas E. Sheridan, author of \u003ci\u003eArizona: A History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With engaging prose, Jared Orsi excavates the layers of Indigenous history that underlie this seemingly ‘untouched’ nature reserve, details the environmental and cultural devastation of an increasingly hardened border, challenges the National Park Service—and us—to reckon with its colonial past, and points the way toward reconciliation with the O’odham peoples. The result is a fascinating study of a little-known place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.”—Marsha Weisiger, author of \u003ci\u003eDreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis provides a trenchant analysis of how cultural heritage, modern management policies challenging that heritage, and local to international forces combined to shape a small, contested desert oasis. Quitobaquito is a tiny and unfamiliar space with lessons for the world.”—Lary M. Dilsaver, author of \u003ci\u003ePreserving the Desert: A History of Joshua Tree National Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito—now further threatened by the looming border wall—reemerge in \u003ci\u003ePeoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis\u003c\/i\u003e as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to “reclaim” Quitobaquito’s pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the O’odham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of “preservation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with O’odham peoples to restore their rightful heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, \u003ci\u003ePeoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks—and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551753924888,"sku":"9780806192949","price":58.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/peoples-of-a-sonoran-desert-oasis-volume-6-recovering-the-lost-history-and-culture-of-quitobaquito-hardback-9780806192949","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}