...Debra McDougall Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands—whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization—have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development...

..., and the necessity of holding the entire American polity together. She carefully historicizes and reviews Cohen’s major published papers, show- ing the development of his political vision, which asserted a necessary and reciprocal relationship between racial, religious, and cultural diversity...

.... Unlike the aforementioned immigrant groups, however, ethnic Mexicans in Chicago developed a unique social acclimatization experience because of their day-to-day encounters with racializing prejudice. Book Reviews 523 In contrast to members...

... and nonnative. Strong proposes that public venues for native cultural and political representation are not only the most accessible research sites now but also the most productive ones. The works under con- sideration here support her view. Christina Taylor Beard-Moose traces the development...

... if we fully appreciate how this development is situ- ated with respect to ‘‘Tlingit-American and Orthodox-Presbyterian rela- tions’’ (175). Kan has expanded the interpretive framework he developed in Sym- bolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century (1998) to include...

...Jerry K. Jacka Ipili speakers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea creatively use the category “whiteman” both to structure their longing for socioeconomic progress and development and to critique the very institutions associated with development that they desire. This article explores the history...

...Sherry L. Smith References Ambler Marjane 1990 Breaking the Iron Bonds: Indian Control of Energy Development . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas . Fixico Donald L. 1998 The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural...

...Jessica Joyce Christie The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala . By Way J. T. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 310 pp., maps, acknowledgements, appendix, notes, glossary, index . $13.21 paper.) Copyright 2014...

... Territoriality, Ethnopolitics, and Development: The Indian Movement in the Brazilian Amazon . In The Land within: Indigenous Territory and the Perception of the Environment . Hierro Pedro García Surralés Alexandre , eds. Pp. 200 – 228 . Copenhagen : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs...

... of change is what Taylor refers to as the “ecosystem of authenticity,” a concept that captures the production and reproduction of being Maya. Being authentic is exhausting. The eco-archaeo-tourism business expects and demands it. External pressure from tourists and development funders result...

...Matthew D. Esposito [email protected] Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico . By A. S. Dillingham . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . xiv + 254 pp., prologue, introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $30.00...

...Silver Moon Developing Zapatista Autonomy: Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas . By Barmeyer Niels . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . xxvi + 282 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright...

... as a potentially momentous phenomenon of the wider world of Christianity and development of which they believe strongly that they are and must be a part. But the colorful stories people tell and retell about the year 2000 should not be taken as transparent statements of their “beliefs.” The paper suggests (1...

...(sixteenth-century) and late (eighteenth-century) chronicles, the article develops a critical analysis of the current anthropological knowledge of the area, especially in relation to the process of “retribalization”of Carib groups. The essay offers an alternative approach that focuses on this sociopolitical...

... communications in their respective tribal languages. These data add to the breadth of our knowledge of Native American code talking and the essay explores the context for the development of such opportunities, which, although they involved fewer men and perhaps less frequency of use, involved more tribes than...

...Ellen Cushman The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through...

...James Barber This essay examines the extension of British colonial control across the Lake Rudolf region, investigating the motives for British decisions and the relationships that developed between the colonizers and the local tribes. On both sides there was uncertainty. Among the local peoples...

.... This article draws on demographic and ecological information in examining the economic and political pressures that had developed in central Guerrero in the years leading up to the 1840s. I show that in the years leading up to the 1840s a settlement distribution had developed in the region that created...

.... Theoretically, each “tribe” had a “homeland” that the state set aside for their exclusive use. Problems developed when more populous ethnic groups outgrew their assigned reserves and coveted the territory of European settler farmers in the “white highlands” and that of less populous tribes. The resulting...

...Colin G. Calloway Reflecting on developments in Native American history over the past generation and on my own work, this article considers the limitations of trying to “fit” Indian history into American history. Instead, it suggests placing the history of the United States in a longer and larger...