BOOK REVIEW: Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimas

Abstract

Wings in the Desert is a most impressive example of what ethno-ornithology can teach us. Amadeo Rea celebrates here the traditional environmental knowledge and wisdom of the Piman peoples of the Sonoran Desert and adjacent Sierra Madre Occidental from Arizona’s Gila River Pimas (the Akimel O’odham or “river people”) and “Papago” (the Tohono O’odham or “desert people”) south to the Pima Bajo along the Yaqui River in southern Sonora and the Pima Alta of the adjacent Sierra.