THE BARE-TOED VAQUERO: LIFE IN BAJA CALIFORNIA'S DESERT By Peter J. Marchand

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Type
Paperback
Publication Name
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN-10
0826353568
ISBN
9780826353566
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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
ISBN-10
0826353568
ISBN-13
9780826353566
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160160668

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bare-Toed Vaquero : Life in Baja California's Desert Mountains
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Latin America / Mexico, Mexico, Anthropology / General, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, History
Author
Peter J. Marchand
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
34.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
9.9 in

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Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries. In this book a gifted photojournalist introduces us to individual ranchers and their families and describes their traditional practices and the ways they have adapted to twenty-first-century challenges and technological advances., Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries. They raise goats and cattle and grow a magnificent variety of fruits, vegetables, and flowers in one of the driest places on the continent. The men, women, and children depicted in this book have never known the luxury of municipal water or electricity on their ranches. Yet, as Marchand's photographs show, they are remarkably self-sufficient in their use of technologies that would be considered archaic by most standards today. Some ranches now have solar panels, generators, a light bulb or two, a radio or TV, and, most recently, a cell phone charger. But water is supplied either by gravity or a gasoline-powered pump (though windmills still turn at some ranches), cooking is most often by wood fire, machaca is ground on a stone metate or pounded on a stump, and coffee is ground in a hand-cranked mill. Plowing is still done mostly with mules, and planting, harvesting, and milking are all done by hand.

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