....) Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. By Alexandra Harmon. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xii + 393 pp., introduction, maps, photographs, notes, bibli- ography, index...

... with a unique insight into the life and society of colonial Latin America. Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State. By Natividad Gutiérrez. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska...

... insights that extend far beyond the concerns of the Florida Seminoles. High Stakes deserves, and will undoubtedly receive, a wide readership. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-072 Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia. By Joanne...

... to Ethnicity: Conditions Affecting Tosawihi (“White Knife”) Shoshone Culture and Identity in the Reservation Era . Report. Carson City: Department of Anthropology, Nevada State Museum. 2009 Band, Not-Band, or Ethnie: Who Were the White Knife People (Tosawihi)? Resolution of a “Mereological” Dilemma...

... this final attempt to destroy the tribe. Lambert argues that termination revitalized dormant nationalism, and that Choctaws’ strong sense of ethnic identity sustained them through these shatterings and provided the social structures and ideologies with which they restored their tribal...

...Jeffrey Ostler Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America . By Anderson Gary Clayton . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2014 . ix + 462 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index . $26.96 cloth.) Copyright 2015...

... the timing and nature of ethnic transformation among these populations, arguing that the key shift to a generic ladino identity occurred later than previously proposed. They also suggest the need for greater attention to the role of state formation in ethnic change, as the casta population described here...

...John F. Schwaller Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico . By Díaz Mónica . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . xii + 229 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth...

...Timothy Parsons In an effort to generate labor, protect European settler interests, and rationalize administration, the Kenyan imperial regime sought to impose a new ethnic geography on the African majority that confined communities to specific “native reserves” based on their supposed ethnicity...

...William Pencak American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Review Essays Perspectives on Britain’s First Ethnically Diverse Empire William Pencak, Pennsylvania State University 6326...

... that Juan de Torquemada’s report of the councils of Techo- tlalatzin was based on a misinterpretation of a scene depicted in the Codex Xolotl. Torquemada’s mistaken description of a program of systematic redistribution of four ethnic groups has the same root. Nevertheless, Mohar Betancourt describes...

... resettlement of over twenty-three hundred individuals into four colonial towns, an undertaking that involved recording the names, ages, and ethnic identities of these individuals, household by household. This essay considers how the management of the Yucay estate evolved in the early colonial period...

..., covering Mesoamerican and South American art, is being planned, prefer- ably with more photographs. The Tenacity of Ethnicity: A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective. By  6762 ETHNOHISTORY...

... + 217 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.) Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821– 1861. By Raúl A. Ramos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xii + 279 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...

...Caterina Pizzigoni This special issue shows that Nahuatl was not a standard lingua franca spread across Mexico, but was used flexibly and spontaneously by people of many kinds for many different purposes, varying greatly according to the location, the ethnicity, and the social status of speakers...

... and histories of ethnic diversity. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Dentro y fuera de los muros: Manila, Ethnicity, and Colonial Cartography Dana Leibsohn, Smith College Abstract. In 1671 the Dominican friar Ignacio Muñoz created a map of Manila that has since become...

...Dennis E. Ogburn The processes of ethnogenesis in the Andes of the sixteenth century were structured by the different approaches to ethnic identities taken by the Inca and Spanish societies that dominated the region in succession. The Incas enforced boundaries and restricted transculturation...

..., but also limits, of state power because, as Eric Wolf noted long ago, brokers by definition never work simply to resolve the contending interests they mediate but must also perpetuate them if they want to retain their own strategic positions. At the same time, in ethnically stratified societies...

...Bianca Premo This article reassesses the notions of culture that are tied up with our understandings of gender and ethnicity in colonial Oaxaca. It examines the lawsuits indigenous women leveled against husbands and lovers in the eighteenth century to revisit some canonical scholarly claims about...

...Sergio Serulnikov The article explores the causes, ideological underpinnings, and political repercussions of land battles among the Pocoata, an ethnic group in the southern Andes, during the eighteenth century. These disputes afford us a glimpse into the competing native concepts of land tenure...