...Anderson Hagler Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica . Edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . v + 220 pp., foreword, preface, introduction, afterword, bibliography, index. $27.95...

... in the valley remained the cacique of Teotihuacán. While much extant literature contrasts the hacienda as a type with the estates of the native aristocracy, we suggest a functional similarity based on comparability of market articulation (including commodities produced and the land itself as commodity...

... by ethnic Fijians. These recent events, involving a corporation purveying a global commodity and investment practices once colonially imported to Fiji, have been carried out with much objectification of the local, of indigenous ownership,and of place belonging as a basis for rights. The article finds...

..., erasures, and marginalia. Three writing genres are identifiable, and the content of these writings has an unusual emphasis on ways to represent money and counts of commodities, particularly cacao. The Pipil demonstrated their independence from the Mixtec and Aztec empires through writing by using...

... also employed in inter- and intratribal relations. Since they first acquired horses in the early eighteenth century, the Blackfoot regarded them highly as possessions as well as commodities of exchange. A gift of horses to an aggrieved party precluded the creation of damaging feuds. In the 1860s, horse...

... stood to gain by enforcing market regulations. And finally, she examines the consumption of goods, carefully disentangling items that were gifts from those that were commodities; she shows how both Indians and Europeans imbued goods that served as gifts with different meanings and expectations than...

..., a medium-sized Maya city. Beach, Luzzadder-Beach, and their colleagues argue that the regional carrying capacity was far too low to sustain that scale of an urban population. Consequently, food and other products had to be transported from long distances. But from where did such commodities come...

... and make history, not as the unfolding of a singular world-historical narrative, but as the contin- gentoutcomesofpluralsocialsituations. Negotiating Gifts (and Commodities) Martha Kaplan’s article makes it clear that the meanings of such jural terms as ownership and profit have shifted recently...

..., whose self-interest lies in marketing primitiveness. And while Mintz’s work certainly opened a door for anthropologists, Nugent might have benefited from more recent commodity history: Sven Beckert’s magnificent Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014) comes to mind. On a smaller scale, most readers...

...Paul K. Eiss American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Appadurai, Arjun 1986 Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value. In The Social Life of Things...

... that the destruction of the trade monopolies of the Westoes and Ocaneechies led to the opening of commodities exchange between the English and the Piedmont Indians that “would seal the chiefdom’s fate” as a viable political structure (135). By the 1700s, the Piedmont was “no place for chiefdoms” as they were not part...

... interlopers and local Indian leaders adapting practices from their respective cultures into a new colonial reality. The third part studies wine as a commodity within the imperial economy, including its markets, production, and financing, while the fourth part studies the material culture of Moquegua’s...

... Messages: Literature, Film, Family, and Place. By Louis Owens. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. ix + 263 pp., illus- trations, preface, notes, references, index. $27.95 cloth.) Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity...

... Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners between Two Wars . New York:Knopf. Taussig, Michael T. 1980 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Tedlock, Dennis 1985 Popol Vuh . New York: Simon and Schuster...

... it as a commodity for exchange with Native Americans. The Emergence of Monetary Instability and the Struggle to Find a Solution From 1629 onward, however, the colony began to adopt an economic policy of liberalization due to political demands for democratization. As soon as this liberalization...

... among the peoples that inhabited the Orinoco Basin through time. In doing so, I propose a cross-cultural perspective to the study of these commodities within the framework of the growing economy of the early modern world. I argue that the creation of the global economy included not only the passive...

... “naive primitive” canvases and sculptures were commodities produced along with American tourism in Haiti, yet they have been promoted as unique objects of authentic Haitian essence, to attract tourism to the magical island. The art was mass copied and recopied, thanks...

... to the coast (Guar- 6817 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:1 / sheet 110 of 250 dino This arrangement insured that commodities of some sort were loaded onto mules on each leg of the trip, offsetting at least a 10...

... of frontier expansion, epidemics, and cultural subordination. Frontiers indeed have expanded violently over the course of the century, commodity booms have rocked in- digenous communities, and native cultural scripts have been dramatically transformed. Yet notwithstanding such shocks, the Cassandras have...

... in Social Anthropology, 1980. Proceedings of the British Academy . Vol. 66 . London: British Academy. 1986 Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Earle, Timothy 1985 Commodity Exchange and Markets in the Inca State: Recent...