...Terry Rugeley Poder y gobierno local en México, 1808–1857 . Edited by del Carmen Salinas Sandoval María , Gardida Diana Birrichaga , and Ohmstete Antonio Escobar . ( Zamora : Colegio de Michoacán , 2011 . 424 pp. US $18.00 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...

... identities in the late-colonial era were more flexible, adaptable, and informal than either tribally focused colonial ethnographies or the scholarly literature on identity formation would suggest. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography...

... was “bleakly conventional” and mirrored that of other settler societies across the West (55). With the Indians gone, the settlers transformed the lake into a fishery and resort and promoted Utah as a land of lakes. By the mid-twentieth century, however, local histories had already reinterpreted...

... and sovereignty. Patricia Burke Wood looks at relations between the city of Calgary and the Tsuu T’ina First Nation as a way of moving beyond the Indian/white divide to a postcolonial history that sees these neighbors as engaged in common interests and causes. The essay ably uses a local case to make...

... Indians have long found ways to adapt and blend the American economic system to their culture. For example, Choctaws around Natchez, Mississippi, served as guides, but also sold food and provisions to the nearby fort and local populace. Down in New Orleans, as late as the turn...

... – 34 . Aix-en-Provence : Publications de l'Université de Provence . “For the Last Time, Once and for All”: Indians, Violence, and Local Authority in the Colonial City, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1587–1628 Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego Abstract...

... for Ethnohistory 2011 A Fractured Pochgui: Local Factionalism in Eighteenth- Century Papantla Jake Frederick, Lawrence University Abstract. In August 1787 in Papantla, New Spain, native Totonacs rose in riot. While the captain of militia of a neighboring community described...

... the sixteenth century, particularly through the silk trade. In tracing these connections, we see how locally focused microhistories can shed light on aspects of early modern globalization that we might not otherwise attend to. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Lisa Sousa The Life Within: Local Indigenous Society in Mexico’s Toluca Valley, 1650–1800 . By Caterina Pizzigoni . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . xiii+324 pp., preface, introduction, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, index . $65.00 cloth.) Copyright 2018...

...John D. Kelly A Weberian approach to globalization can go beyond analyses of local cultural accommodation and resistance to global forces and can illuminate more complex dialogics of local and global ends and means. Max Weber once objected to the portrayal of Christian martyrdom as service...

... frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Creole elites to Tekax, increased local property values, and drove the once majority Maya population into the countryside...

...-observer. Alternatively, fieldwork in contemporary societies may be contextualized in local history using the methods and sources of the traditional historian. Anthropologists characteristically rely heavily on oral history, narrative, and life history to supplement written documentary records...

...Oriol Ambrogio Abstract This article examines accusations of sorcery as a way to understand the perceptions of sorcery among the Mapuche of central-southern Chile during the colonial period. Local communities believed that illnesses and unfortunate events were caused by the actions of sorcerers...

... as the president of the chamber of commerce, a lieutenant colonel in the territorial militia, the secretary of the local historical society, and so forth. This essay explores the strategies he used to maintain his privileged position within the local Euro-American elite without abandoning his Russian patriotism...

...James Barber This essay examines the extension of British colonial control across the Lake Rudolf region, investigating the motives for British decisions and the relationships that developed between the colonizers and the local tribes. On both sides there was uncertainty. Among the local peoples...

... for individuals in their locally lived experience; and (3) that people are beginning to resolve this conflict by taking the meaning of the“year 2000” into their own hands in specifically local millennial projects that are aligned with their basic cultural values, especially unity and development. American...

...Katherine E. Browne This article introduces the concept of creole economics , a culturally informed view of the informal economy in Martinique, French West Indies. Local actors engaged in this economic practice are commonly known as débrouillards. Drawing on studies of French slavery and folklore...

... “ordinary,” nonrebel caciques engaged in political alliance making on the ground. While traditional renditions of the Caste War represent it as a race war, I show how, for Uicab, strategic rather than racial concerns remained pivotal in shaping political alliance making at the local level. In doing this, I...

... for the construction of pastoral Q'eqchi'. In contrast, the evangelization of the Pipil demanded substantial modifications of Mexican Nahuatl doctrinal language. Mutual intelligibility was not the only requisite to persuade and convert the natives. The local organization of speech genres and the indexical associations...