... professional histo- rians and students. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. Edited by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,  vols. xxiv + pp., xxii + pp., xxii + pp., figures, tables, maps, index...

... by Susan C. Griswold. (Durham, dc: Duke University Press, 1999. xxix + 72 pp., introduction to the English edition, introductory study, maps, appendices, bibliographic note, index. $39.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.) 2001 Book Reviews An Account...

..., introduction, map, index. $24.95 cloth.) “To Do Justice to Him & Myself”: Evert Wendell’s Account Book of the Fur Trade with Indians in Albany, New York, 1695–1726. Edited and translated by Kees-Jan Waterman. Linguistic information by Gunther Michelson. (Philadelphia: American...

... speaks to issues commonly found in colonial encounters, while inviting deeper engagement with translation as a special site where colonial relations are constructed. Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest Paja Faudree, Brown University Abstract...

...Veronica Rodriguez Abstract This article provides an analysis of Chimalpahin’s additions to Francisco López de Gómara’s Historia de la conquista de México . In his account, Chimalpahin draws attention to the plurality of ethnic states, their cultural practices, and political conflicts...

...Andrew Laird Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico . By Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci . Edited and translated by Stafford Poole . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . xv+288 pp., foreword, introduction, text, bibliography, index...

...Sarahh Scher Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . xi + 131 pp., preface, acknowledgments, map, appendix, glossary, works cited, index . $24.95 paper...

... relations among the twenty-four constituent bands in a context where they have had less control over institutions of justice. The interview materials are rich, offer- Book Reviews 485 ing accounts of illness, spiritual forces, doctoring, gambling...

... (1932) and Joseph Epes Brown’s The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala (1953) have given readers the impression of knowing about the famed Oglala leader and a sense of his people’s traditions. Based on personal interviews with Black Elk, the books have inspired...

... these competing “titles,”ostensibly written in the 1520s, to Spanish authorities in the 1690s. The titles present each community's account of the Spanish Conquest of Oaxaca and subsequent colonial events. We consider how the documents shed light on Mixtec and Nahua ethnic identity and historical memory...

... translations of early Spanish colonial documents (hence the plural “voices” from Vilcabamba). Copyright 2021 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2021 Voices from Vilcabamba: Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire . By Brian S. Bauer , Madeleine Halac-Higashimori , and Gabriel E...

...Evan Haefeli To understand the significance of stories of first contact in which native peoples around the world are said to have mistaken Europeans (or their goods) as gods or godlike, this article examines written and oral accounts of such encounters in the context within which they were...

...Astrid Steverlynck This article examines the role of amazon women during the first centuries of European exploration in lowland South America by analyzing the accounts produced by conquistadors, missionaries, and explorers from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The accounts are analyzed...

...Grant Arndt This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903...

... coherence and continuity amid severe political upheaval. Data gathering combined oral accounts for a period of about 120 years and the elicitation and reconstruction of genealogies in the migrating history of villages for as long as 230 years of Ye'kuana history. What makes this analysis different from...

... within the same analytical framework to understand the complexities of social-ecological change in Madagascar. The ravinala or “Traveler's Tree” (Ravenala madagascariensis), a longtime symbol of Madagascar, serves here as a kind of cultural common ground. Focusing on changing accounts of the tree over...

...Hjorleifur Jonsson This article reexamines accounts of Mien (Yao) ethnic minority populations in northern Thailand, in particular generalizations about social structure in terms of household formations. Two ethnographic accounts from the same province of Thailand during the 1960s suggest opposite...

... Huitzilopochtli. Sahagún's text, however, cannot account for the statue's portrayal of Coatlicue as decapitated and dismembered, the presence of similar statues that appear to have been part of the same set, or the lavish attention the carver paid to her skirt of braided serpents. The statue seems to better...