... of horticultural products for fish and game. This article analyzes the demographic characteristics and social organization of the area and attempts to disentangle the intricate network of Waraoan and non-Waraoan speakers there during early colonial times. American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 Abbad, Fray...

... World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America. By Ed- ward G. Gray. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, xiv + pp., acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, bibliography, index. cloth.) Lyle Campbell, University of Canterbury, and Susan Wurtzburg, Lincoln University (New Zealand...

... as a matter of texts. Not a set of doctrines or beliefs to be adopted, Islam inhered in its language, spoken and written. Uttering Arabic and possessing spiritually potent religious manuscripts were the dominant practices shaping Islam's spread, reception, and structure in early modern South Sulawesi...

... are followed by a long, informative essay, ‘‘Key Events in the Gitksan Encounter with the Colonial World by James A. McDonald and Jennifer Joseph (193–214). But McDonald and Joseph’s tendency to focus on early white settlement...

...Frederick H. Smith American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 European Impressions of the Island Carib’s Use of Alcohol in the Early Colonial Period Frederick H. Smith, College of William and Mary While a tremendous amount of research has explored historical patterns of alcohol use...

... for Ethnohistory 2007 “Heran Todos Putos”: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico Zeb Tortorici, University of California, Los Angeles Abstract. This essay focuses on a 1604 document from Morelia’s criminal archive dealing initially with the prosecution of two...

...Gregory A. Waselkov Georgia and Florida Treaties, 1763-1776. Edited by John T. Juricek. Early American Indian Documents: Treaties and Laws, 1607-1789, vol. 12. Alden T. Vaughan, gen. ed. (Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 2002. xxx + 581 pp., preface, foreword, illustrations...

...Caterina Pizzigoni American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Alternative Sex and Gender in Early Latin America Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University The five essays presented here are varied and each worthy of separate analysis on its own terms, but they are also part...

... Seeds from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave Keith M. Prufer, Wichita State University W. Jeffrey Hurst,Hershey Foods Technical Center Abstract. Archaeological investigations at a mortuary cave in southern Belize recov- ered a bowl containing five cacao (chocolate) seeds dating...

... being divided equally between the moieties, despite considerable differences in their populations. Seneca Moieties and Hereditary Chieftainships: The Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Organization of an Iroquois Nation Thomas S. Abler, University of Waterloo Abstract. Scholars investigating...

...Theda Perdue American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In 1830, Lewis Cass, the governor of Michigan Territory and an acknowl- edged expert on Indians, contributed...

...Rotem Kowner American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548–1853 Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa The forced opening of Japan by an American squadron in1853–54 provided the Western world with a long-awaited opportunity...

...Martha Few Chocolate, in the form of a hot chocolate beverage, was widely available to men and women of all ethnic and social groups in late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Santiago de Guatemala, the capital city of colonial Central America. At the same time, chocolate acted as a central...

....) Charles Hudson, University of Georgia This slim volume is a tersely written survey of Choctaw history from the late Mississippian era in the early sixteenth century until removal in the 1830s. Carson uses an interpretive framework...

..., notes, index. $40.00 cloth.) Charles Hudson, University of Georgia This slim volume is a tersely written survey of Choctaw history from the late Mississippian era in the early sixteenth century until removal...

.... Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature. By Louise M. Burkhart. (Austin: University of Texas Press for the Insti- tute of Mesoamerican Studies, Albany, viii + pp., preface, introduction...

...” comprises Ira Jacknis’s history of George Gustav Heye’s collection and exhibition practices, Patricia Pierce Erikson’s consideration of a Native American Museums Movement and its reverberations at the Smithsonian, and Judith Ostrowitz’s analysis of early planning and design consultations...

...David W. Dinwoodie With the emergence of the Canadian policy of land claims in the 1970s and 1980s, the early contact phase of aboriginal history became a prime factor determining recognition. First Nations historiography has, as a result, become polarized and politicized in particular ways...

... native peoples. It concludes that the desire and determination to uncover native intentions have led ethnohistorians to accept coerced testimony that is of dubious historical value. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 “My Medicine Is Punishment”: A Case of Torture in Early California, 1775...

... eighteenth- and early nineteenth-​century American historiography. He identifies how historians in the early national period used the archetypal “Indian” as a means through which they could critique the successes or the shortcomings of the American Revolution. Sami Lakomäki’s investigation...