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... of readers and students. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-020 Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment. By Renée Ann Cramer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xxi + 234 pp., list of tables, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth.) Brice...

...Nancy P. Appelbaum The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil . By Weinstein Barbara . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . xii+458 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper, $104.95 cloth...

...Figure 1. Six-cord color groups on a Santa Valley khipu (UR 89). Photo by Gary Urton ...

... a black-skinned person gets a burn, the skin is seen to be white underneath; and that a black man who marries a white woman has children with skins of mixed color. Transformations of the skin and body do not seem as un- likely...

... of the manuscript and provided many insightful comments about both content and organization. Gillian Flynn, Ron Little Owl, Ronald T. McCoy, and Gayle Yiotis assisted in various ways. Funds for the color reproduction of the winter...

...Figure 4. An example of seriated-banding, like that seen on KH0323, by which khipu cords form both individual bands of color (i.e., W, RB, YB, MB) and these bands then repeat in a seriated fashion. ...

...; trans. by Caplan). Specific bird types even appear in Nahuatl texts as color descriptors, such as xiuhtototic , “lovely cotinga–colored,” tlauhquecholtic , “roseate spoonbill–colored,” and toztic , “yellow headed parrot–colored” (Sahagún 1950–82 , bk. 11:24, 205, 22; trans. by Caplan...

.... 1254–1324) was the first European to refer to Japan, and his thirteenth-century memoirs served as a precursor of early perceptions concerning the Japanese. On the basis of Chinese sources, Polo depicted the people of Chipangu as ‘‘white, civilised, and well-favoured1 The color he chose to describe...

... of the JCB’s gems), has made possible the color plates included in this special issue (see “Color Image Gallery Those plates mark not just a rarity in the journal’s sixty-year­ history, this being one of only a very few issues to feature color images; they also mark the first time two issues...

... extracted primarily from the region of this New Spain known as the Mixtecas [sic]; it is sometimes used by painters to produce said color.”1 Hernández noted that a carbon-­ based mix made from an aromatic pine known as ócotl also circulated in the region.2 “[Painters] also prepare among them...

... aesthetic distinction between the bright, vibrantly chromatic, and luminous feathers of the tlazohihhuitl class and the dark, pale, and flat color of the macehualihhuitl. Plate 5a (top left). Snowy egret ( Egretta thula ), ML84264801. 5b (bottom). Roseate spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ), ML45293111. 5c...

... Model of Color-Category Evolution by Robert E. MacLaury. Current Anthropology 33 : 163 . Hugh-Jones, Stephen 1992 Yesterday's Luxuries, Tomorrow's Necessities: Business and Barter in Northwest Amazonia. In Barter, Exchange, and Value: An Anthropological Approach . Caroline Humphrey and Stephen...

...Karen Olsen Bruhns Edited by Ann Pollard Rowe. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xxii + 328 pp., preface, maps, 268 black and white +16 color plates, glossary,bibliography, index. $50.00 paper.) 2000 Cordry, Donald Bush, and Dorothy M. Cordry 1968 Mexican Indian...

... Impression . Translated by Prenowitz Eric . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Dupey García Élodie . 2014/2015 . “ The Materiality of Color in the Body Ornamentation of Aztec Gods .” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics , no. 65 /66: 72 – 88 . https://jstor.org/stable/24871244...

... , Nahua scouts sent by Moctezuma to survey the troops on the coast noted their varied skin color. According to Sahagún, Moctezuma was convinced that the Spaniards were gods, perhaps the return of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent. 16 The Nahuatl account in Sahagún’s Florentine Codex reads...