1767年耶稣会被驱逐后，墨西哥索诺拉的传教活动经历了漫长的衰落过程。通过重新评估传教危机范式——它指的是导致19世纪初传教世俗化的日益严重的内部危机——可以了解人口、文化、经济和制度变量如何改变索诺拉方济各教会的生活。在18世纪末，索诺兰土著群体和西班牙定居者之间的互动形式变得越来越复杂和激烈，部分原因是实施了具有改革思想的波旁政策，该政策设想了一个更世俗、更具生产力的现代社会。与此同时，这本书中所说的多元流动性的新形式也出现了。方济各会传教士和使团居民采取了不同的策略来应对这些变化，结果因地区而异，这取决于传教士的背景、印度人对使团生活的反应、当地经济安排以及印度人和西班牙人之间的文化交流等因素。
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Twilight of the Mission Frontier: Shifting Interethnic Alliances and Social Organization in Sonora, 1768-1855
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm―which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century―new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and modern society. At the same time, new forms of what this book identifies as pluriethnic mobility also emerged. Franciscan missionaries and mission residents deployed diverse strategies to cope with these changes and results varied from region to region, depending on such factors as the missionaries’ backgrounds, Indian responses to mission life, local economic arrangements, and cultural exchanges between Indians and Spaniards.
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