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..., regional, and national his- tory’’ (xx). His approach is, therefore, challenging. Not only is he forced to deal with a long period of time and two different cultures but also with a time of tremendous cultural change. In this Maroukis has done an excel- lent job. While writing about the Necklace family...

...Terry Rugeley Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Indigenous Culture Change. By Joel W. Palka. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. 292 pp., notes, appendix. $65.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews Cannibal Talk: The Man...

...Gray Whaley This article analyzes social change in the emerging colonial world of the lower Columbia River from 1805 to 1838, particularly regarding gender and sexuality. It teases out distinctions among formal marriages, informal “custom of the country” arrangements, the exercise of sexual...

... as haciendas in documentary sources, the estates demonstrate an architectural poverty that casts doubt on their ability to generate profits and their role in the transition to a market economy. This article proposes that architectural investment in rural areas may signal changes in entrepreneurial strategies...

... Haciendas and Plantations in Middle America and the Antilles. Social and Economic Studies 6 : 380 -411. Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica Eric Van Young, University...

.... The eradication of polygamy changed the landscape of society so much that it affected Nauhua demographics. The Relación de Hueytlalpa y su partido (1577) by Joseph Velázquez says that the Nahuas themselves told him that before the conquest “there were more people . . . , because each indio had [as many] wives...

... Clothing Styles: Cultural Conservatism and Change . Unpublished manuscript on file, West Chester University of Pennsylvania. 2003 The Lenopi: The Native People of Southern New Jersey during the Early Contact Period . Unpublished manuscript on file, Department of Anthropology, West Chester University...

...David L. Preston Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire . By MacLeitch Gail D. . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 . x + 330 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2012...

...Jonathan DeCoster Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400–1900 . Edited by Scheiber Laura L. and Mitchell Mark D. . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . ix + 342 pp., foreword, references, contributors, index . $59.95...

...Greg O'Brien Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality . By Fixico Donald L. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2013 . xviii + 264 pp., illustrations, preface, glossary, notes, bibliography, index . $50.00 cloth.) Copyright 2015...

... Periphery: Late Classic Painted Serving Vessels . Oxford, UK : British Archaeological Reports . Boot Erik 2005 Continuity and Change in Text and Image at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico: A Study of the Inscriptions, Iconography, and Architecture at a Late Classic to Early Postclassic Maya Site...

...Cameron Shriver Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood . By Norrgard Chantal . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series . ix + 201 pp., acknowledgments, appendix, endnotes...

...Lorenzo Brutti This article explains millenarism as a cultural response to a range of social, economic, and ecological changes that occurred during the past few centuries in Oksapmin society. The assumption is that Oksapmin cosmology has always been dynamic and self-innovating toward both...

... only ‘‘in Euro-American imaginations, or rather in their failure to imagine how Indians struggled and survived, and how cultural change is persistence’’ (4). After an opening chapter discussing the contrasting English...

...Lilliam Arvelo Traditional history in Venezuela held that during the sixteenth century all traces of the aboriginal societies were erased, particularly in regions where no indigenous societies have survived. In this article I explore the changes observed in the use of the space by the population...

..., as manifested in attitudes of aperture and resistance that emerged under different historical conditions and that are clearly expressed in the distribution and modes of burial practice. Funerary remains serve as indicators of the changes in cultural response to the contact situation, and as such they have...

... by Nancy Hornberger. (New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, bibliographies, afterword, index. cloth.) International Journal of the Sociology of Language Indigenous Lan- guage Use and Change in the Americas. Edited by Teresa L. McCarty and Ofelia Zepeda. (New York...

... to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. $20.00 paper.) Frederic W. Gleach, Cornell University Defending the Land is a volume in the series Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change, edited by David...

... they represent new adaptations versus long-term continuities? And second, is it possible to access emic or internal perspectives on meanings behind governance, difference, and even change in order to illuminate Maya perspectives on the early colonial experience? The results highlight the intertwined nature...

...Thomas H. Guderjan Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community . By Arnold Dean R. . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2008 . 351 pp., foreword, preface, references, index . $70.00 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American...