...: The Iconography of Human Origins. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclu- sive History of Anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler. History of An- thropology, vol. 9. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. viii + 315 pp...

... established in the eighteenth century. The epilogue summarizes postremoval history and offers a spring- board for further inquiry into these tribes’ respective renaissances. The book concludes with an essay on sources and offers...

...Susan Roy Be of Good Mind: Essays on the Coast Salish . Edited by Miller Bruce Granville . ( Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2007 . x + 323 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, index . $34.95 paper.) Copyright 2012 by American Society...

...Ann McMullen Three Centuries of Woodland Indian Art: A Collection of Essays. Edited by J. C. H. King and Christian F. Feest. ( European Review of Native American Studies Monographs, number 3. Altenstadt, Germany: ZKF Publishers, 2007. vi + 200 pp., introduction, map, illustrations. $29.95 paper...

... to the environment and natural history of organisms informs this study of culture and history. Figures from archives and photographs taken by Gade, spanning five decades, enrich the book, to which his wife and collaborator, Mary K. Gade, contributed maps. Spell of the Urubamba: Anthropogeographical Essays...

...Coll Thrush Offering an overview of the other four essays in this special section, this essay also opens up broader ground for consideration. It begins with the story of Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem who traveled to London in 1736 to present a land-rights petition to George II but who died...

...Kelly S. McDonough Abstract This essay applies the analytic category of technologies proposed by historian Marcy Norton as complex systems of knowledges, practices, and products generated in specific social contexts to a study of the sixteenth-century bureaucratic surveys known as the Relaciones...

...Jessica Joyce Christie The purpose of this essay is, first, to provide a comprehensive overview of all known ethnographic and archaeological data concerning the Inka rock art site of Q'enqo (Kenko), which includes evidence from recent excavations conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura...

...Andrew Nurse This essay examines Marius Barbeau's early-twentieth-century Huron-Wyandot ethnography as a case study in the history of Canadian anthropology and in Canadian cultural history. It examines how Barbeau's ethnographic research became part of a broader, inherently political process...

...Susan Rasmussen This essay examines the origins and directions of ichumar (also called tichumaren in some regions), a genre of guitar music popular among young Tuaregs in Mali and Niger. Initially composed and performed by Tuareg nationalist/separatist rebels, it is now composed and performed...

...Linford D. Fisher Native participation in the First Great Awakening in New England is often assumed but little investigated. This essay provides an in-depth examination of Pequot involvement in the Awakening through a close analysis of local records in Connecticut. Most historians have typically...

...Juan Luis Rodriguez This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic...

...Walter E. Little This essay discusses how Mayas, and visual images of them as discursively constructed subjects/objects, are located in dictator Jorge Ubico's economic development and modernization policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Ubico's contradictory policies of promoting Maya essentialness...

... wars. This essay documents several instances in which the presence of Native American soldiers within the same or nearby units who spoke a common native language was discovered by accident, either by their commanding officers or by the members themselves, and their subsequent use in sending military...

...Adele Perry This article analyzes the relationship between First Nations housing and reform in British Columbia between 1849 and 1886. Utilizing published and archival evidence drawn from church and government sources, the essay examines reformers' conceptions of First Nations housing...

...Quetzil E. Castañeda This essay explores the history of the political structure of town and municipal authority in a specific case study of a Yucatec Maya community. The town is Pisté, a community that has become a significant tourist center that provides services for the nearby archaeological...

...Laurence Cuelenaere In this essay, I examine the distinction between the use of the Spanish word creencia in early colonial evangelical instruments and the Aymara term criyincia employed today on the Bolivian Altiplano. Whereas the colonial and contemporary uses of creencias refers to practices...

...Kevin Terraciano Abstract The author presented a draft of this essay as a presidential address at the 2012 meeting of the society in Springfield, Missouri. The theme of the meeting was “the apocalypse,” referring to a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicted a cataclysmic event to occur...

...León García Garagarza Abstract This essay examines some instances of interspecific dialogues between owls and human beings recorded in Nahuatl-language sources from the sixteenth century. Since ancient times, owls have been considered omens of death in Mexico. This article analyzes the cultural...

... with each site, the essay proposes that “sites of memory” require for their meaning interactions with people through bodily experiences based on movement, sight, and touch—a sensory experience that activates memory formation. Finally, the essay reflects the author's attempt to consider the violence...