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Landscapes of Fraud - Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O?Odham (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Landscapes of Fraud - Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O?Odham (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the
real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the
land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way
of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of
speculative failures that never amounted to much but left
dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate
those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers
struggled to create and the existing social spaces they destroyed.
Landscapes of Fraud explores how the penetration of the evolving
capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities in the
Upper Santa Cruz Valley of Arizona from the late 1600s to the
1970s. Thomas Sheridan has melded history, anthropology, and
critical geography to create a penetrating view of greed and power
and their lasting effect on those left powerless. Sheridan first
examines how Oaodham culture was fragmented by the arrival of the
Spanish, telling how autonomous communities moving across
landscapes in seasonal rounds were reduced to a mission world of
subordination. Sheridan then considers the fate of the TumacAcori
grant and Baca Float No. 3, another land grant. He tells the
unbroken story of land fraud from Manuel MarA-a GAndaraas purchase
of the aabandoneda TumacAcori grant at public auction in 1844
through the bankruptcy of the shady real estate developers who had
fraudulently promoted housing projects at Rio Rico during the 1960s
and a70s. As the Upper Santa Cruz Valley underwent a wrenching
transition from a landscape of community to a landscape of fraud,
the betrayal of the Oaodham became complete when land, that most
elemental form of human space, was transformedfrom a communal
resource into a commodity bought and sold for its future value.
Today, Mission TumacAcori stands as a romantic icon of the past
while the landscapes that supported it lay buried under speculative
schemes that continue to haunt our history.
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