{"product_id":"strength-from-the-waters-a-history-of-indigenous-mobilization-in-northwest-mexico-hardback-9781496228826","title":"Strength from the Waters; A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico (Hardback) 9781496228826","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames V. Mestaz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496228826\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 4 photographs, 9 maps, 1 glossary, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.652 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\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to Indigenous environmental histories that examine the intersections of white settler colonialism, racial capitalism, environmental racism, water policy, and climate change.\"-Alana de Hinojosa, H-Water\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully melds ethnohistory with environmental history to chronicle the Mayo people of northwestern Mexico’s tenacious defense of the Fuerte River, the source of their livelihood and spiritual existence. . . . By incorporating Indigenous voices and tapping new archival sources, Mestaz expertly tells a story of Indigenous persistence against a water-hungry postrevolutionary and postwar state.”-Ben Fallaw, author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e makes important contributions to modern Mexican history, environmental history, and ethnohistory, especially with its fascinating oral histories of Mayo elders.”-Mikael Wolfe, author of \u003ci\u003eWatering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e is an environmental and social history that frames economic development, environmental concerns, and Indigenous mobilization within the context of a timeless issue: access to water. Between 1927 and 1970 the Mayo people-an Indigenous group in northwestern Mexico-confronted changing access to the largest freshwater source in the region, the Fuerte River.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e James V. Mestaz demonstrates how the Mayo people used newly available opportunities such as irrigation laws, land reform, and cooperatives to maintain their connection to their river system and protect their Indigenous identity. By using irrigation technologies to increase crop production and protect lands from outsiders trying to claim it as fallow, the Mayo of northern Sinaloa simultaneously preserved their identity by continuing to conduct traditional religious rituals that paid homage to the Fuerte River. This shift in approach to both new technologies and natural resources promoted their physical and cultural survival and ensured a reciprocal connection to the Fuerte River, which bound them together as Mayo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mestaz examines this changing link between hydraulic technology and Mayo tradition to reconsider the importance of water in relation to the state’s control of the river and the ways the natural landscape transformed relations between individuals and the state, altering the social, political, ecological, and ethnic dynamics within several Indigenous villages. \u003ci\u003eStrength from the Waters\u003c\/i\u003e significantly contributes to contemporary Mexicanist scholarship by using an environmental and ethnohistorical approach to water access, Indigenous identity, and natural resource management to interrogate Mexican modernity in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Their Technology, Our Way: Los Goros and Fuerte River Infrastructure, 1927 to 1942\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sweetness and Water Power: The SICAE Sugarcane Cooperative and Mayo Struggles for Water, 1944 to 1958\u003cbr\u003e 3. When the State Fails the Gods Remain: Independent Mayo Water Control Strategies, 1944 to 1957\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Inward Turn: Mayo Hydraulic Labor, Millenarian Movements, and Changing Rituals, 1947 to 1963\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Our River to Theirs: The Effects of Hydraulic Development, 1955 to 1970\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Remaining Strong\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cb\u003e   \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599914987800,"sku":"9781496228826","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/strength-from-the-waters-a-history-of-indigenous-mobilization-in-northwest-mexico-hardback-9781496228826","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}