...Stephen E. Lewis Based on documents housed in Mexico City and Chiapas, this essay describes how Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) managed to establish its pilot Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas in 1951. Facing opposition from the state government, the state alcohol monopoly...

... the successes and shortcomings of top-down efforts by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) to “integrate” Tzotzil and Tzeltal Maya in the highlands of Chiapas into Mexican society beginning in the early 1950s. He chronicles the INI’s recruitment of indigenous cultural promoters and schoolteachers...

... and inequality during the sexenios of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952–58) and Adolfo López Mateos (1958–64), Spanish literacy campaigns, and land and labor systems. Anthropologists of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) Julio de la Fuente and Alejandro Marroquin, and the economist Moisés de la Peña...

... the development of indigenous media initially as part of a project born out of the government-­run National Indigenous Institute (Instituto Nacional Indígena [INI Cusi Wortham’s historical overview, combined with her anthropological fieldwork, offer insight into the birth and growth of a cultural...

...–whooping cough campaign orga- nized by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI, National Indigenist Institute). The boys’ laughter, however, was not in response to the prospect of their imminent vaccination, but rather to a spectacle provided by the INI for the occasion: Teatro Petul, a puppet...

... in a correct way origi- nated in acts of pity by powerful beings above or animal persons that ini- tiated acts of pity among human beings. Anderson’s discussion of each of the four stages of life integrates the symbolism...

...’ holis- tic well-­being resides in Davis’s discussion of a second important native woman. Ojibwe mother of six Charlotte Day relocated her family from northern Minnesota to a St. Paul housing project in 1967. Her children ini- tially struggled to progress within a public school system that proved...

... and actors (including won- derful analyses of the politics of Mexico City’s anthropology museum and ini, the National Indigenous Institute), and its inclusion of the voices of individual Mam of different ages, political...

.... Lewis, an ini- tiated Mvskoke medicine practitioner, and Jordan, an anthropologist, are each responsible for clearly delineated parts of the book, but the focus is on Lewis’s historical observations and practice of traditional medicine (for- mally addressed to his own people) as he explicitly...

... in the aftermath of European contact. The Ku Waru ini- tially believed the Europeans or ‘‘red men’’ were cannibals, indeed ‘‘the Ku Waru expressions for foreigner [kewa] and cannibal [kewa nuyl] are almost synonymous Rumsey uses...

... European observer, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, commented that when he saw Indians drinking chocolate mixed with achiote (annatto), the drink turned their mouths, lips, and whiskers red, as if they were drinking blood.26 Ini- tially, Spaniards for the most part spurned chocolate beverages.27 When...

... William F. Keegan to make note, which led him to conclude that the Caniba, “the people of the Grand Can,” were attacking them and taking them captive. In this ini- tial encounter, Columbus introduced a name that later was interpreted as indicating that the islands were inhabited by cannibals...

... Russians were against Kamchadal, possibly ethnic Itel’men or Koryak that made up twenty-­nine of the ini- tial sixty-­seven in the St. George Redoubt contingent (Pierce and Donnelly 1979: 39). The Dena’ina retaliated, killing an estimated ninety-four­ Rus- sians throughout the siege.2 A summary...

... (agama Kristen). Traditional religion is equated with the beliefs and practices of the now defunct male initiation cult called wuon (the last ini- tiation among the Nasfa was held in the mid-1960s). Wuon initiations...

...’’ indigenous people toward posts by leaving gifts of consumer goods in abandoned villages or on paths to lure them into maintaining regular contact with the posts where, at least ini- tially, more goods and Brazilian-style foods were provided. Since thes, Kayabi men have avidly participated in this process...

... are most obviously expressed in Keres: Engendered Key to the Pueblo Puzzle the memberships of Katsina (masked gods) sects, where manly towns ini- tiate only boys while womanly towns take in both boys and girls, as noted by Elsie Clews Parsons ‘‘Sia girls as well as boys...

.... Only the boy Olmos was spared. Historical Interpretations Traditional explanations (Bridenbaugh 1981; Gradie 1988, 1990, 1993; Rountree 1990, 1993) for these particular episodes of Algonquian violence centered on don Luis’s singular personal motivations—revenge for ini- tial...

... who made offerings were the sick, under the directive of their “sortilegos médicos . ” 79 References Aguirre Beltrán Gonzalo . 1963 . Medicina y magia: El proceso de aculturación en la estructura colonial . Colección SEP–INI. México : Instituto Nacional Indigenista . Andalón...

... House of the Ancestors,” as indicating that the founders of the city had once lived here, and Teopan, or “Upon the Gods,” as marking the zone of the ini- tial temple to Huitzilopochtli.13 The vital link to a pre-­Hispanic past that place-­names like Mixiuca, Temazcaltitlan, and Huehuecaltzin...

... Iniative) . n.d. “ Text Encoding Initiative .” www.tei-c.org/index.xml (accessed 26 April 2021 ). Thibault Clérice , Munson Matthew , and Almas Bridget . 2017 . “ Capitains/Capitains.github.io: 2.0.0” (Version 2.0.0) . Zenodo , 2 May . doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.570516...