David Yetman is Associate Research Social Scientist at The Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and author of Where the Desert Meets the Sea: A Trader in the Land of the Seri Indians (1988), Sonora: An Intimate Geography (1996), and Scattered Round Stones: A Mayo Village in Sonora, Mexico (1998). He is host of the PBS series ”The Desert Speaks.” Thomas R. Van Devender is Senior Research Scientist at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. He has published many articles on the ecology and evolution of the Sonoran desert and has done pioneering research to determine ancient climates and vegetation change through studies of packrat middens.
7 E-böcker av David Yetman
Thomas R. Van Devender & David Yetman: Mayo Ethnobotany
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 q …
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David Yetman: Conflict in Colonial Sonora
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 …
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David Yetman: Natural Landmarks of Arizona
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 Ye …
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Thomas R. Van Devender & Mark E. Fishbein: Gentry’s Rio Mayo Plants
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 …
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€63.74
Alberto Burquez & David Yetman: Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlan and Tehuacan
Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlan and Tehuacan: From Deserts to Clouds provides an accessible and photographic view of the culture, history, and environment of an extraordinary region of southern Mexico. …
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Judith X. Becerra & David Yetman: Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes
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 …
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€38.76
Robert H. Robichaux & David Yetman: Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos
Only a day’s drive south of the U.S.-Mexico border, a tropical deciduous forest opens up a world of exotic trees and birds that most people associate with tropical forests of more southerly latitudes …
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