...León García Garagarza The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies . By Bassett Molly H. . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014 . xii + 283 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2016 by American Society...

... . Berlin : Reimer . Young Thomas 1842 Narrative of a Residence on the Mosquito Shore during the Years 1839, 1840, and 1841: With an Account of Truxillo, and the Adjacent Islands of Bonacca and Roatan . London : Smith, Elder . “God Save the King of the Mosquito Nation!” Indigenous...

... and are an unparalleled resource of theory and data. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of ‘‘18- Rabbit-God K King of Copan. By Elizabeth A. Newsome. (Austin: Uni- versity of Texas Press...

... in Highland Guatemala: Addressing “God” after the Spanish Conquest Sergio Romero, University of Texas at Austin Abstract. The textual sources of indigenous Christianities in Guatemala embody a complex articulation of native thought, European language ideologies, and the diachronic development...

... ‘‘combin[ing] theology—the detailed study of one reli- gious group’s relationship with their god—with history to demonstrate Franciscans as religiously inspired actors in the past they shared with Indi- ans’’ (xvi). Sandos argues that conversion was the overarching goal of the Fran- ciscan priests...

... the so-called tlaaltiltin , “bathed ones.” It argues that “baths,” which often consisted of merely sprinkling one’s face with water, had, above all, a transformative power. In the case of deities’ impersonators, they helped them change their ontological status, converting humans into gods and, sometimes...

...Sarahh Scher Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity . By Hyland Sabine . ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . xi + 131 pp., preface, acknowledgments, map, appendix, glossary, works cited, index . $24.95 paper...

...Andrew Cayton The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier . By Jortner Adam . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . x + 310 pp., acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index . $27.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013...

... Gods, Foreign Powers: Making History with Global Means and Ends in the Pacific Martha Kaplan, Vassar College What happens when people in the Pacific (whether indigenous or diasporic) orient their history to something over the horizon? How should scholarship on local history-making address...

... in Native American history, history of the American West, and religious theory will appreciate this book. Indeed, The Gods of Indian Country is a paradigmatic example of effective storytelling and scholarly expertise. In response to these and other outside pressures, Kiowas continued interacting...

...Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos Abstract Recent scholarship on the Spanish invasion of the New World has brought under scrutiny the historiographic theme of apotheosis—the notion that Indigenous peoples regarded the invaders as gods or godlike beings and that such beliefs influenced their responses...

...Evan Haefeli To understand the significance of stories of first contact in which native peoples around the world are said to have mistaken Europeans (or their goods) as gods or godlike, this article examines written and oral accounts of such encounters in the context within which they were...

...Iris Montero Sobrevilla Abstract This essay explores the avian nature of Huitzilopochtli (“Hummingbird on the Left”), the tutelary god of the Mexica, by centering the deity’s association with the hummingbird. Arguing that there is a “natural history of Huitzilopochtli” deployed in book 11...

... as a moral,sacred egalitarianism more virtuous than ethnic Fijian and colonial hierarchies, rendered thereby parochial and deluded in Ram and Krishna's universe. Thus Indo-Fijians localize gods and also a form of critique of hierarchy, engaging politics already heavily inflected by localized Christianity...