Native Peoples of Baja California Research Papers (original) (raw)

2022, Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly

The Colorado and Mojave Deserts fully entered their historical era only as late as the AD 1770s, through the written accounts left by Spanish travelers. Reports of earlier visits can be divided into three categories: the Factual, the... more

The Colorado and Mojave Deserts fully entered their historical era only as late as the AD 1770s, through the written accounts left by Spanish travelers. Reports of earlier visits can be divided into three categories: the Factual, the Implausible, and the Problematic. However, these categories are not without significant overlaps. Archaeologists and ethnohistorians need to take into consideration the factual record of early visits in attempting to understand the continuities and discontinuities between the region's prehistory and its subsequent ethnohistory and ethnography. They also need to deal with continuing public interest in both purely imaginary and more problematic accounts alleging additional early visits.

2022, En Piñera, David y Carrillo, Jorge, (coords.), Baja California a Cien Años de la Revolución Mexicana. 1910- 2010, México, UABC, Colef.

Este capítulo aborda la política cardenista como política de población reflejada en Baja California, ¿se trató de una política centralista o de una inercia demográfica? Esta es una reflexión al respecto.

2022, Baja California. Memoria, herencia e identidad patrimonial, coordinado por Miguel Ángel Sorroche Cuerva

2014. Coautoría con Jorge Martínez Zepeda y Lucila León Velazco, “Los ranchos de la etapa misional y su herencia cultural en Baja California”, en el libro: Baja California. Memoria, herencia e identidad patrimonial, coordinado por Miguel... more

2014. Coautoría con Jorge Martínez Zepeda y Lucila León Velazco, “Los ranchos de la etapa misional y su herencia cultural en Baja California”, en el libro: Baja California. Memoria, herencia e identidad patrimonial, coordinado por Miguel Ángel Sorroche Cuerva, Granada, España, Universidad de Granada.

2022, Meyibó

Mario Alberto Magaña Mancillas, Indios, soldados y rancheros. Poblamiento, memoria e identidades en el área central de las Californias (1769-1870), La Paz, Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur, Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura,... more

Mario Alberto Magaña Mancillas, Indios, soldados y
rancheros. Poblamiento, memoria e identidades en el área central de las
Californias (1769-1870), La Paz, Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur, Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura, El Colegio de Michoacán, Conaculta, 2010, 731 pp. En revista Meyibó, núm. 3, nueva época, enero-junio de 2011, pp. 151-155.

2022, La población de Nueva España y México a través de padrones y censos, siglos XVII-XX, coord. por José Marcos Medina Bustos, (Hermosillo, Mexicali: Colson, UABC)

En el contexto mexicano decimonónico de modernización, en 1888 se llevó a cabo un denominado censo de la población residente en algunos puntos de la entidad. Si bien este censo se trataba más bien de un padrón, aquí se nombró “censo” para... more

En el contexto mexicano decimonónico de modernización, en 1888 se llevó a cabo un denominado censo de la población residente en algunos puntos de la entidad. Si bien este censo se trataba más bien de un padrón, aquí se nombró “censo” para respetar el formato en que fue
publicado el documento. El objetivo de este trabajo bajo este marco, es analizar el censo de 1888 a través de la estructura poblacional bajacaliforniana, antes del ingreso a la etapa censal y periódica de información cuantitativa en México que se generó con los censos generales a partir de 1895, con el fin de explicar las particularidades de un momento de su poblamiento, de cómo estuvieron conformados las localidades más grandes del norte allegadas a la frontera del extremo
noroeste y de las condiciones que prevalecían con miras de incentivar su crecimiento bajo el antecedente de la pérdida del territorio por Estados Unidos unas décadas antes.

2022

is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on... more

is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas' writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island's indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja California indigenous and colonial history.

2021

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote... more

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas’ writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island’s indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja Californ...

2021

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote... more

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas’ writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island’s indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja Californ...

2019, Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly

A multiple interment composed of three individuals was discovered in 1972 partially exposed on the surface of a shell midden on the Gulf of California side of the Cape Region in Baja California Mexico. There were no associated grave... more

A multiple interment composed of three individuals was discovered in 1972 partially exposed on the surface of a shell midden on the Gulf of California side of the Cape Region in Baja California Mexico. There were no associated grave goods, but a small collection of artifacts from the surface of the midden and the human remains were studied by Sheilagh and Richard Brooks of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The multiple primary interment is not usual for a beach on the Southern Gulf coast, but is unusual because the pelvic girdle of one of the burials was placed higher in the grave pit than the others. This is the first time the latter trait was recorded for the Las Palmas culture.

2018

Reseña del libro Cambios y continuidades de la vida ancestral Cucapá. Datos arqueológicos, arqueofaunísticos y etnográficos para su comprensión (2016), Mexico,Secretaría de Cultura/ INAH. Autores: Antonio Porcayo Michelini, Alejandra... more

Reseña del libro Cambios y continuidades de la vida ancestral Cucapá. Datos arqueológicos, arqueofaunísticos y etnográficos para su comprensión (2016), Mexico,Secretaría de Cultura/ INAH. Autores: Antonio Porcayo Michelini, Alejandra Navarro Smith, Andrea Guía Ramírez y Alberto Tapia Landeros.

2016, Island Studies Journal (Canadá)

Toponymy is a field of knowledge that provides valuable support to pertaining to geography: it contributes to the naming of geographical space and its parts, and is a sign of the appropriation of territories by human groups. Mexican... more

Toponymy is a field of knowledge that provides valuable support to pertaining to geography: it contributes to the naming of geographical space and its parts, and is a sign of the appropriation of territories by human groups. Mexican toponymy has diverse linguistic origins: most stem from indigenous languages and Spanish, and their combinations, on continental and island soils. The geographical names used to designate natural elements and places of itinerant or permanent occupation on island territories have been arbitrarily assigned in different historical eras. This paper analyzes the toponyms of the island of Cedros (Baja California, Mexico), their historical roots and the names assigned by its contemporary inhabitants. The toponyms discussed here are compared to some geographical names from the western shore of the Baja California peninsula and other Mexican islands.

2016, Journal of California and Great …

provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja California indigenous and colonial history.

2016, Contributions to the Linguistic Prehistory of Central and Baja California, edited by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat, Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory 44

2016

Durante el año 2015 llamó la atención de los medios de comunicación, nacionales e internacionales, un conflicto social focalizado en el sector agrícola de San Quintín, Baja California. Las notas de prensa y reportajes referían la... more

Durante el año 2015 llamó la atención de los medios de comunicación, nacionales e internacionales, un conflicto social focalizado en el sector agrícola de San Quintín, Baja California. Las notas de prensa y reportajes referían la movilización de jornaleros en demanda de mejores salarios por debajo de la media pagada en el noroeste de México, insignificantes si se convierten a dólares estadunidenses —63 centavos de dólar por hora— por jornadas de diez o más horas diarias. A lo largo del proceso se destapó también un serio problema de explotación laboral, discriminación y exclusión social, un secreto a voces en los medios académicos y de derechos humanos, pero del que muy poco se habla en los medios oficiales ante la riqueza y productividad agraria generada en los últimos años y la pervivencia de los partidos políticos, que incluye a varios de los dueños de fincas y empresas agroexportadoras de la región.
El problema económico pudiere resolverse con el aumento de salarios, sin embargo, la evidencia de trabajadores acantonados en pequeños espacios, durmiendo en las fincas hacinados adultos, niños, familias enteras, así como mano de obra femenina e infantil en los campos agrícolas en condiciones precarias, de explotación, en medio de plaguicidas y abonos químicos sin equipo de protección. Aparte de la violencia de los capataces o mayordomos que discriminan por partida doble en el caso de migrantes indígenas, hombres y mujeres, por tener poco conocimiento del español, analfabetas, sin redes sociales cercanas y con alto grado de pobreza desde sus lugares de origen.

2011

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote... more

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas’ writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island’s indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja California indigenous and colonial history.