... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 The Expansion of Nahuatl as a Lingua Franca among Priests in Sixteenth-Century­ Mexico John F. Schwaller, SUNY Potsdam Abstract. This article examines the practice of ordaining young men because of their personal language ability...

... Tekanto: A Maya Town in Colonial Yucatan . Middle American Research Institute pub. 67 . New Orleans : Tulane University . Three Families: Genealogies and Processes among the Sixteenth- Century Kaqchikel Maya Robert M. Hill II, Tulane University Abstract. The new political oŒces...

... illustrate two different approaches to understanding khipu. Gary Urton and Carrie Brezine summarize the work they have been doing regarding Inka khipu, understanding the relationships among materi- als, construction, color, and khipu use. The chapter addresses the results obtained when...

... into feasting that cannot be gained from travelers' and anthropologists' brief visits to the northwest Pacific coast. Moveable Feasts: Chronicles of “Potlatching” among the Tsimshian, 1860s–1900s Peggy Brock, Edith Cowan University Abstract. This article considers Tsimshian feasting activities from...

... of the Western Great Lakes: 1615-1760. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Kohl, Johann Georg 1985 Kitchi-Gami: Life among the Lake Superior Ojibway. Lascelles Wraxall, trans. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. Lafitau, Joseph François 1977 Customs of the American Indians Compared...

... -58. Hirsch, Silvia 1991 Political Organization among the Izoceño Indians of Bolivia. PhD diss. , University of California-Los Angeles. Langer, Erick 1995 [1989] Mandeponay: Jefe indígena chiriguano en las misiones franciscanas. In Chiriguano . Jürgen Riester, ed. Pp. 227 -53. Santa...

... and the Yankton Sioux: The Life and Times of Sam Necklace by Thomas Maroukis is a very welcome book. No comprehensive study of the Peyote religion among the Yankton Sioux has been published previously. Maroukis looks at the Peyote religion through the eyes of one prominent Yankton family. He introduces us...

...Jaap Timmer Imyan people of the southwestern Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya await an event that promises wealth, justice, and a new world order: Jesus Christ's kingdom on earth. Millennial beliefs among the Imyan derive from a potent blend of Christian doctrine, ancestral transgressions...

... themselves; rather, their ‘‘depictions of violence tend to lack moral judgment’’ (35) and are contextualized in terms of the disunity among the Maya themselves. They also emphasize continuities in Maya life despite conquest, thus...

... boundaries and the persistence of Indians among the non-Indian population of Washington Territory. Contrary to the conventional view that federal policy effectively isolated Native Ameri- cans, Asher argues, ‘‘ongoing Indian-white...

... contemporaines . F. Raison-Jourde, ed. Pp. 391 -408. Paris: Karthala. The Hazomanga among the Masikoro of Southwest Madagascar: Identity and History Jeanne Dina, University of Toliara, Madagascar 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2...

... of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, By Robert Boyd. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, xv + pp., preface, introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. cloth.) Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut To my...

...Fernando Santos-Granero The killing of alleged children sorcerers has been widely reported among the Arawak of eastern Peru. Accusations of child sorcery multiplied at junctures of increased outside pressures marked by violence, displacement, and epidemics. Mythical foundations for this belief...

... among the Iroquois Indians. By Harriet S. Caswell. New intro- duction by Joy A. Bilharz. Originally published 1892. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxvii + 321 pp., new foreword, new introduc- tion, original preface, original introduction, new and original illustrations. $24.95...

... The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization . Berkeley: University of California Press. Coombs, Gary, and Fred Plog 1977 The Conversion of the Chumash Indians: An Ecological Perspective. Human Ecology 5 : 309 –28. Costello, Julia 1989 Variability among the Alta California...

... examines, qualifies, and explains the relationships among social units on various levels in the communities and the means by which these units are integrated. Following an engaging foreword by Mary Weismantel, the preface aptly compares information in the book to ingredients in a recipe...

... discusses the unusual voice Haudenosaunee women had in governance. It then observes significant freedom of speech and action among their French and Dutch colonial neighbors. The article investigates the blending of those voices as colonial women colluded with the Haudenosaunee to seal bargains...

.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Turner, Victor 1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Reinterpreting Sacrality among the Ancient Maya: Recent Works on the Deified Nature of Death, Dance, and Geography Amara Solari...

... for Ethnohistory 2015 Indian Territory indigenous health indigenous foodways Five Tribes diabetes indigenous health decline traditional foods Sustenance and Health among the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Postremoval to Statehood Devon A. Mihesuah, University of Kansas Abstract...

...Michelle LeMaster A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman . By Marsh Dawn G. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . xii + 213 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $27.95 cloth.) Copyright 2015 by American Society...