...Sergei Kan Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment . By Vermeulen Han F. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . xxiii+718 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, bibliography, index . $75.00 cloth.) Copyright...

...William S. Kiser Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus . By Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham , with contributions by Heide Castañeda . ( College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2018 . xiv+256 pp., illustrations, tables...

.... 1994 [1902] The Samoa Islands [Die Samoa-Inseln]. Theodore Verhaaren, trans. 2 vols. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Liebersohn, Harry 2003 Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer. In Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire . H...

... . Bennett, Mary 2003 Meskwaki Code Talkers. Iowa Heritage Illustrated . Winter, 84 ( 4 ): 154 -61. Bishinik (Choctaw Nation newspaper, Durant, OK.) 1986 Germans Confused by Choctaw Code Talkers. August . 1987 Choctaw Language Also Used in WWII for Military Communications . April...

... and healer. But a journey that began with the sort of neotraditionalist practices becoming common at the time led him first to absolute pacifism and then Christianity. Chapter 3 traces Papunhank’s meeting with Moravians that included both German missionaries and Indigenous converts. Although intrigued...

... that ‘‘they are heathens6 Although Escalante did not deal with the ques- tion of Japanese origins, as many European writers later did, he wrote that their language is ‘‘similar to German’’ but that they read and wrote in the same manner as the Chinese. The same year, the eminent Jesuit missionary of Basque origins...

... . This second journal ends when Prince Max starts his return voyage, arriving at Fort Union on 29 September 1833. This trading post was inhabited by about one hundred people representing about a dozen different nationalities, including Scots, Irishmen, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, Italians...

... of colonial contact, at the beginning of the twentieth century the Germans established a large coconut plantation that occupies about a third of Bali and much of its most fertile land. Many villagers were con- scripted to work on Bali Plantation while others were forcibly taken away to work on other...

... the tourist trade among rich Europeans (Germans, mostly) along the Sepik River. For the more mass market, self-guided tours to the premodern world are available a few mouse clicks away. The Lonely Planet (surely one...

... on interactions between Proyecto Eco-Quetzal (PEQ), an NGO founded by German ecologists in 1990 to protect rare bird species that inhabit Guatemala’s cloud forests, and the Q’eqchi’-speaking village of Chicacnab, located high in the department of Alta Verapaz. All Chicacnab households engaged in milpa (swidden...

...Figure 4. The German naturalist Maximilian witnessed interactions between native peoples and colonists that contradicted official portrayals. Source: Wied-Neuwied 1820 . Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University ...

...), who was connected to Dutch settlers and Mohican-Stockbridge Indians along the New York-Massachusetts border, and his Palatine German wife. Jarvenpa traces the lives of their descendants in the Stockbridge area, highlighting how they became involved in the anti-rent resistance between 1750 and 1800...

... French of Histoyre du mechique (12– 15), which many will find difficult. The same is true of the slightly less- archaic Italian (63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70), modern French (50), and modern German (107). Fortunately...

... another dramatic rupture in time. In keeping with their episodic view of history, the Abelam see the past as divided into eras or epochs: ‘‘mythological time the ‘‘time of the ances- tors the ‘‘time of the Germans...

... about remaining connected to landscapes, to other beings, and to each other? These are the lessons made available to those who listen, and Rodney Frey, a man “of German and English ancestry,” is a good listener. In Carry Forth the Stories , Frey provides ethnographic scaffolding to hold together...

..., eastern Europeans, and Italians, who were frequently vilified for their less-than-decorous behavior. 27 Jon Gjerde ( 1997 : 233–34) refers to the negative portrayals of “rollicking” Irish and “irascible” drunken Germans and provides several harrowing examples of the harassment of immigrant...

... of the Jesup Expedition by Boas (a never-translated address given in German in 1908) as well as Igor Krupnik’s brief appreciation for historian Douglas Cole, whose death in the summer of 1997 preceded by just three months...

... germane to the present discussion, received little in the way of scholarly attention from historians and anthropologists working on colonial Central America. Yet the volume also disappoints for what it fails to deliver. Rather than...

... his indictment of Germans as a ‘‘thick description character- izing the murderers as ‘‘evil’’ does not help us to understand them. As in her work on Aztec religiosity Clendinnen focuses less on abstract ideology than on experiences, emotions, and sensations— those of the perpetrators...