Historic Resource Study: Tumacacori National Historical Park
Sheridan TE, National Park Service, Southwestern Missions Research Center, Tucson, AZ. 2004. Historic Resource Study: Tumacacori National Historical Park. Historic Resource Study. Tucson, AZ
The book you hold in your hands is a "history" in the sense that it chronicles and interprets social change through time, in this case the creation and destruction of human communities in the Upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona from Mission Tumacácori to Rio Rico. Time, after all, has long been the primary analytical axis of our relentlessly teleological Western civilization. Whether we talk about Christian theology, evolutionary psychology, dialectical materialism, or modernization theory, our storylines demand change, evolution, progress through time. We are advancing toward something, a goal, an end, a culmination. The cultural webs we spin are linear, not cyclical. Even critical theorists who challenge deterministic ideologies embrace history. "It is precisely the critical and potentially emancipatory value of the historical imagination, of people 'making history' rather than taking it for granted, that has made it so compulsively appealing," geographer Edward Soja writes. "The development of critical social theory has revolved around the assertion of a mutable history against perspectives and practices that mystify the changeability of the world" (Soja 1989:14).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Sheridan, Thomas; National Park Service; Southwestern Missions Research Center, Tucson, AZ
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Units
- HIST , TUMA
- Keywords
- Archeology, Baca Float No. 3, Buries Pasts, Community, Cultural Resources, Early Anglo Speculation, ehistory, Fictitious Capital, Fictitious Landscapes, Final Displacement, Franciscans, Great Arizona Land Rush, Hispanic Settlement, Historic Resources, History, Jesuits, Landscapes, Landscapes of Speculation, O'odham World, Production of Space, Rio Rico, Showcase Ranchers, Tumacacori Land Grant, Upper Santa Cruz Valley