... closer to indigenous epistemology than are alphabetic documents. They reveal the indigenous framework for conceptualizing and recording the past. As objects, they are the sites of discourse about the past, and they convey the authority of that past. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

... Voices . Tigerman Kathleen , ed. P. 65 . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Fairclough Norman 1992 Discourse and Social Change . Cambridge : Polity . Feld Steven Basso Keith H. 1996 Introduction . In Senses of Place . Pp. 3 – 12 . Santa Fe : School...

...Mark Z. Christensen Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature. Edited by Hull Kerry M. and Carrasco Michael D. . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2012 . ix + 493 pp., illustrations, introduction, glossary...

...Jennifer Monroe McCutchen Abstract This article investigates the use of gendered discourse in Upper Creek negotiations with the British in the late eighteenth-century Southeast. It employs gunpowder and related discussions of masculinity as a tool for understanding how Native and European leaders...

...Donald Pollock Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity is a challenging study, but one that bristles with insights that every anthropologist and specialist on religion will find essential. Shamanism’s links to modern neoliberalism are obvious—the emergence of global shamanic businesses...

... the combined weight of political division, class struggle, and foreign intervention’’ (9). Significantly, the revolution’s more inclusive vision was, according to Grandin, a variant of an alternative nationalist discourse...

... Press, 2009. viii + 365 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, contributors, index. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizen- ship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. By David Luis-Brown. (Dur- ham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008...

... in the light of more recent ethnographical, archaeological, and ethnohistorical studies that reveal in these sources evidence supporting the existence of a native discourse on amazon-like women. It is suggested that Amerindians and Europeans entered into a “dialogue” through a discourse on amazon women. From...

...Elizabeth R. Bell The Rab'inal Achi , a Maya drama originating in the sixteenth century, contains an encoded discourse about the human body. Using four components—the heart, the whole body, the navel, and the head—this play explores and negotiates the territorial disputes of the Maya region during...

..., and power dynamics. I contrast colonial Mapuche (Reche) perceptions of machi as co-gender specialists having alternative sexualities with the discourses of sodomy, sorcery, and effeminacy used by Spanish and criollo soldiers and Jesuit priests. I explore the process by which the categories of the two groups...

... political discourse. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 References Barclay Frederica 1998 Sociedad y economía en el espacio cauchero ecuatoriano de la cuenca del Río Napo, 1870–1930 . In Fronteras, colonización y mano de obra indígena, Amazonía Andina (siglos IX–XX...

... that have been expelled or have been located in the past, criyincias refers to the willingness to continue practices that secular and religious discourses have indentified as erroneous. This essay underscores the paradox of remaining within the influence of the wak'a (Andean deities) that have been emptied...

... of Andean civilization. This essay explores how each author's claims about writing and knotted strings—qillqa and khipu—were intrinsic to their political and theological aims, fitting into a larger discourse about the justification of colonial rule. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Acosta...

...Richard S. Hill “Race relations” are an ever-present topic of public discourse and state policy formation in New Zealand. The emphasis is generally upon the relationship between the indigenous Maori, on the one hand, and the state and the majority ethno-cultural population group, the European...

...Katherine M. B. Osburn Federal Indian policy during the allotment era intersected with the segregated society of the Jim Crow South to create a market for Indian identity; the discourse of Indian blood was the currency of this realm. For the Mississippi Choctaws, heirs to the failed promises...

... of whom lived in nonreservation English towns. This article draws on ethnogeography as an analytic tool for exposing colonial epistemologies and discourse about Indian “disappearance” and elucidating hidden Indian histories in southern New England. Census records are used to illustrate major population...

... of Wangunk and English land tenure are compared, including diversified landholdings extending from a village center, cooperation of individual and common rights, and a gendered proprietorship. This discourse suggests that the character of Wangunk ethnicity resonates from the values that motivated their land...

...Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster; Rachael Kangas Ix Tab, the ancient Maya suicide goddess, appears in various settings in the contemporary popular culture of Yucatán, Mexico. In a state where the suicide rate is double the Mexican national average, discourses about Ix Tab feed misconceptions about...

...Timothy W. Knowlton The manuscript known as the Ritual of the Bacabs is a rare corpus of Yucatec Maya–language incantations and medical remedies put to paper in the eighteenth century. When a given instance of discourse such as a healing incantation is put into writing, it is rendered...

... of these heroes produce a dichotomous temporality of a time of war and a time of peace and thereby frame different kinds of sociopolitical institutions as inverted moral types. Comparatively, Auhelawa's historical discourse resembles many indigenous Melanesian societies and can be taken as another instance...