...Susan Kellogg Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Burkhart Louise M. . Translated by Burkhart Louise M. , Sell Barry D. , and Poole Stafford . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . ix + 233 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary...

.... (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xi + 257 pp., preface, glossary, notes, index. $45.00 cloth, $22.95 paperback.) Peter Blanchard, University of Toronto ‘‘I’m gonna sing, / I’m gonna dance, / Shake my pants, / Give the girls a chance’’ (141). How could one not enjoy a history book...

...Mark Z. Christensen Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico . By Wake Eleanor . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . ix + 338 pp., illustrations, map, acknowledgments, abbreviations, introduction, color plates, appendixes, notes, glossary...

...Brian Stross Edited by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xvii + 278 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Book Reviews Manifest Destinies...

... seek cultural sov- ereignty through the establishment of tribal museums. This latest develop- ment is the focus of the book’s third section, where the contributing schol- ars appraise the creation of the Oneida Museum in Wisconsin and the Zuni Museum in New Mexico as ways of exploring tribal...

... and their interactions with the Chicago students. Tax was familiar with the Meskwaki from his dissertation research conducted on their settlement in the 1930s, before he moved on to other fieldwork in Mexico and Guatemala. During a visit to Iowa in 1948, tribal leader Ed Davenport confronted...

... and their interactions with the Chicago students. Tax was familiar with the Meskwaki from his dissertation research conducted on their settlement in the 1930s, before he moved on to other fieldwork in Mexico and Guatemala. During a visit to Iowa in 1948, tribal leader Ed Davenport confronted...

... language could be used in lieu of a title. Starting in the 1560s the bishops of Mexico began to keep track of clergy according to their ability to speak a native language. When the system of oposiciones (competitive placement exams) began in the 1580s, candidates for benefices would be tested...

... demonstrates the diffusion of Nahuatl as a dominant language in central Mexico. Similarly, comparing this process to what Solange Alberro has described for the acculturation of criollos , this article suggests that the use of Nahuatl among Spaniards represents part of the process of the “Indianization...

...Jonathan Truitt After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 . By Connell William F. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . vii + 316 pp., illustrations, tables, map, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index . $45.00 cloth...

...John F. Schwaller Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico . By Díaz Mónica . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . xii + 229 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth...

...Manuella Meyer Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 . By McCrea Heather . ( Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press , 2011 . 288 pp., acknowledgments, afterword, illustrations, map, bibliography, index . $27.95 paper...

...Terry Rugeley Anular las distancias: Los gobiernos posrevolutionarios en México y la transformación cultural de indios y campesinos . By Giraudo Laura . Translated by Rehrer Jaime Riera . ( Madrid : Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales , 2008 . 282 pp., prologue...

...Terry Rugeley Poder y gobierno local en México, 1808–1857 . Edited by del Carmen Salinas Sandoval María , Gardida Diana Birrichaga , and Ohmstete Antonio Escobar . ( Zamora : Colegio de Michoacán , 2011 . 424 pp. US $18.00 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...

.... Dinwoodie, University of New Mexico In the ideology of the ethno-nationalist,­ human groups are understood to originate in a natural state. A tacit goal of historical research is to enable a return, or a partial return, to the natural state by delimiting unnatural deviations. In this ideology, war...

...John F. López In circa 1550, an indigenous mapmaker painted a watercolor of viceregal Mexico City and its environs. The Uppsala Map has long been a source for examining social life in the Basin of Mexico, yet its description of the city has been one less studied. This essay scrutinizes...

...Barbara E. Mundy The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City's Nahuatl place-names were rescued from...

...Michael E. Smith By Pedro Carrasco. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xviii + 542 pp., preface, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, general index, toponym index. $49.95 cloth.) 2002 Barlow, Robert H. 1949 The Extent of the Empire of the Culua Mexico. Ibero-Americana...

...Rani T. Alexander During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Yaxcabá, Yucatán, Mexico, the expansion of Spanish-American-owned cattle estates occurred in response to indigenous population growth and the implementation of the Bourbon political reforms. Although clearly described...

... in Mexico, to By Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela. (Austin: University of Texas Press, xvii + pp., preface, acknowledgments, appendixes, notes, bib- liography, index. cloth, paper.) John F. Schwaller...