Affiliated Faculty Profile

David Yetman

Research Social Scientist, the Southwest Center
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Arizona, 1972

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Research interests: Ecology and rural development relating to southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, ethnobotany, border issues, currently investigating the issues of the native materials (plant, animal and mineral) of the indigenous people of Sonora, investigating historical human geography and ecological issues of Sonora; ethnohistory of the Ópatas of Sonora.

Area studies courses: The State of Sonora

Selected Publications

Yetman, D. 2004.  Columnar Cacti of the Río Marañon Region, Northern Peru.  Cactus and Succulent Journal 76 (1) 15-28.

Yetman, D. and Sotelo, A. 2004. The Bacerac Incident: Sorcery and Law in Colonial Sonora 1704-1705.  Journal of Arizona History 45 (3): 291-307.

Yetman, D. 2002. Guarijios of the Sierra Madre: Hidden People of Northwest Mexico. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press.

Yetman, D. 2002. (Co-authored with T. Van Devender).  Mayo Ethnobotany: Land, History, and Tradition in Northwest Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yetman, David. 2001. (Co-authored with K. M’Closkey). “The Sun is the Poor Mayo’s Cobija.” Anthropologica XLIII:71-86.

Yetman, D.. 1996. Sonora: An Intimate Geography. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.