.... Weaving together past, present, and future, this collection provides a multidisciplinary approach to the issues faced and solutions created by Native women. In twelve essays, Restoring the Balance addresses historic trauma, intellectual and social movements, health and healing, and arts...

...Christopher Heaney Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru . By Verano John W. , with contributions by Asencios Bebel Ibarra , Kushner David , Valle Mellisa Lund , Titelbaum Anne R. , and Williams J. Michael . ( Washington, DC...

...Amara Solari Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks . Edited by Pillsbury Joanne , Doutriaux Miriam , Ishihara-Brito Reiko , and Tokovinine Alexandre . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 . xxvii + 556 pp., preface, introduction, map, glossary, bibliography, index...

... The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceania, and North America. Edited by Hope B. Wer- ness. (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, x + pp., introduction, index of maps...

...Bradford Andrews Edited by Michael Foster and Shirley Gorenstein. (Salt Lake City:University of Utah Press, 2000. xvi + 310 pp., figures, tables, bibliography,index. $65.00 cloth.) Edited by John E. Clark and Mary E. Pye. (Washington, dc:National Gallery of Art, 2000. 344 pp., figures...

...Ananda Cohen Suarez By Kelly Donahue-Wallace. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxvii + 276 pp., preface, introduction, color plates, glossary, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Bailey, Gauvin Alexander 2005 Art...

... termed verso mexicano. As Poole indicates, this is cer- tainly not courtly Nahuatl, but a capricious language register. Such “Mexi- can verse” is, apparently, an attempt by a Spanish speaker to shoehorn Nahuatl words into a popular Spanish versification scheme—arte menor Book...

..., Restoring the Balance addresses historic trauma, intellectual and social movements, health and healing, and arts, culture, and language. The authors combine life histories, biographical accounts, and historical analysis to provide an academically rigorous narra- tive rooted in traditional...

...Elizabeth Horodowich Altera Roma: Art and Empire from Mérida to Mexico . Edited by John M. D. Pohl and Claire L. Lyons . ( Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press , 2016 . xxvi+359 pp., introduction, figures and tables, index . $75.00 paperback.) Copyright...

...David Webster Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line. By Adam Herring. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 316 pp, introduction, maps, photos, drawings, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book Reviews...

...Karen E. Richman Mimesis was essential to the birth of Haitian Vodou art. During the 1940s, worker-artists in urban Haiti imitated foreign entrepreneurs' imitations of their imagined essence. Yet the role of mimetic interplay in folk-art reproduction was concealed by loftier claims of authenticity...

...Ann McMullen Three Centuries of Woodland Indian Art: A Collection of Essays. Edited by J. C. H. King and Christian F. Feest. ( European Review of Native American Studies Monographs, number 3. Altenstadt, Germany: ZKF Publishers, 2007. vi + 200 pp., introduction, map, illustrations. $29.95 paper...

...Jennifer Siegler Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture . By Elizabeth Morán . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . vii+142 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2019...

... the colonial period. Even Enlightenment institutions like the Academy, created with the intent to reform the art of Mexico in favor of a more classical (and less baroque) style, harkened back to previous state-sponsored festivals for legitimacy. More local festivals, such as those dedicated to St. Joseph...

... indigenous style” (37), Townsend’s work is a real contribution to the still-growing corpus of translation and analysis of indigenous-language texts that allow ethnohistorians to examine colonial history in regionally and chronologically specific ways. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-082 The Art...

...Amara Solari Ancient Mexican Art at Dumbarton Oaks . Edited By Evans Susan Toby . ( Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2010 . xxi + 337 pp., foreword, preface, map, references, index . $70.00 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American Society...

...Catherine H. Popovici [email protected] Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya . By Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2017 . xi + 290 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $65.00 hardcover.). Copyright 2023...