Resumen

TAPIA LANDEROS, Alberto. De la ganadería a la cinegética: Transformación de roles e identidades en el Desierto de Sonora. Culturales [online]. 2013, vol.1, n.1, pp.107-142. ISSN 2448-539X.

In the American biome of the Sonoran Desert, there is a sub region known as "plains of Sonora", with desert vegetation nutritive enough to host big game such as deer, pronghorn antelope, and bighorn sheep. Though this natural vocation, since its colonization the mayor economic activity has been the extensive cattle production, a distinctive Sonoran enterprise. This landscape generated a cowboy culture with its own characteristics and identities in the region. In the year 2000 a turning point in environmental law, which in the past prohibited commercial hunting, now specifically allows it and incentivizes it, the symbolic model of the Sonoran Desert is transforming and also the roles and subjective and social identities that have prevailed for more than a century.

Palabras llave : Sonoran Desert; landscape; identity; cattle raising; commercial hunting.