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...Hal Langfur Rejecting the conventional presumption that violent indigenous resistance to colonization had become all but ineffectual by the late colonial period in Portuguese America, this article uncovers ample archival evidence of successful raiding and other military maneuvers by Brazil's...

... a climatological sequence for much of the Maya area, especially the northern lowlands, that applies to the Late Classic and Terminal Classic time periods relevant to the collapse of Maya civilization. Accurate dating and chronological calibration of lake sediment sequences from the Maya Lowlands is seriously...

...: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain . By Lori Boornazian Diel . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . viii+164 pp., appendices, color plates, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 hardcover.). ...

...Martha Few Chocolate, in the form of a hot chocolate beverage, was widely available to men and women of all ethnic and social groups in late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Santiago de Guatemala, the capital city of colonial Central America. At the same time, chocolate acted as a central...

... contending historical interpretations. ‘‘Chistophilic Triumphal- ists associated with the late Francis Guest, celebrated the activities and legacy of the Franciscan priests in California. ‘‘Christophobic Nihilists identified with the late Rupert Costo, criticized the missions as institu- tions of cultural...

... for Ethnohistory 2007 “That Monster of Nature”: Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a “Hermaphrodite” in Late Colonial Guatemala Martha Few, University of Arizona Abstract. In Guatemala City in 1803, the court of the Royal Protomedicato requested that the physician...

... the inability of both native and colonial rulers to handle mounting demographic pressures, the intense process of intraethnic strife contributed to the disruption of rural authority. Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 The Politics of Intracommunity Land Conflict in the Late...

..., Miriam 2006 Otomí Women's Authority in Late Colonial Central Mexico. Paper presented at the conference Commemorating Encounters: Reenactments and Reinterpretations , Williamsburg, VA, 2 November . Pizzigoni, Caterina, ed. 2007 Testaments of Toluca . UCLA Latin American Center Nahuatl Studies...

..., appendix, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper.) Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context. By Taylor William B. . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2011 . ix + 149 pp., introduction, notes, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American...

...: American Tourists and Southeastern Alaska Natives in the Late Nineteenth Century. In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions . Marie Mauzé, Michael Harkin, and Sergei Kan, eds. Pp. 201 -220. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Book Reviews Before Albany...

... the significance of these trends for the changing status of cacique in the eighteenth century. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Acuña, René, ed. 1984 Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: Antequera . Vol. 1 . Mexico City: UNAM. Chance, John K. 1994 Indian Elites in Late Colonial...

... . Fall James A. 1987 The Upper Inlet Tanaina: Patterns of Leadership among an Alaskan Athabaskan People, 1741–1918 . Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 21 ( 1–2 ): 1 – 80 . Fedorova Svetlana G. 1973 The Russian Population in Alaska and California, Late Eighteenth...

...Steve J. Langdon Writing and “papers” were first encountered by the Tlingit through contacts with European explorers and traders in the late eighteenth century. Euro-American traders subsequently developed a system of papers of introduction for high-ranking indigenous leaders. These papers became...

...Thomas H. Guderjan Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala . Edited by Rice Prudence M. and Rice Don S. . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2009 . 458 pp., preface, references, index . $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2011...

..., and powers of attorney for the women featured in this article. Their records described a cross-section of women participating in the civic work of their communities; identified cacicas , women of position in northern small towns (Jilotepec region) in the late colonial eighteenth-century; and showed...

... of the late eighteenth century. It is argued that in this overwhelmingly male environment, the gendering of daily practices such as foodways and use of space worked in complex, dynamic ways and at multiple levels along lines of rank, experience, and, to some extent, ethnicity. Differing masculine ideals...

...Susan Elizabeth Ramírez Abstract This article focuses on educational initiatives, the negotiations and resistance these efforts generated, and the barriers to these efforts during late colonial times. After a brief overview of formal and informal instruction, two examples of efforts to establish...

... firmly based on informal agents and on the previous experience of the Portuguese with Native diplomacy. In the late eighteenth century, Iberians asserted imperial sovereignty over frontier areas by creating fortifications, missions, and towns and sought to transform these territories into governable...

... for Ethnohistory 2024 Kahnawà:ke Haudenosaunee Iroquois lacrosse social capital In the late nineteenth century John Canadien (Sawatis Aientonni) was one of the best-known and most colorful characters in the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) community of Kahnawà:ke, a First Nations reserve located...