...John K. Chance Marriage alliances among governing families were an important instrument of political integration in Postclassic Mesoamerica, especially in Mixteca. Alliances among Mixtec nobles persisted during the colonial period, although after the sixteenth century, the caciques lost much...

..., and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1670–1870. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-035 The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915. By Sarah Carter. (Edmonton and Athabasca, AB: University...

...Brandon Layton Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia . By Ann McGrath . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . xxxi+503 pp., illustrations, preface, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 paper.) Copyright 2019...

...José Carlos de la Puente Luna [email protected] A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas . By Sean F. McEnroe . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2020 . xxviii + 352 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95...

...Rebecca Kugel Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country . By Denial Catherine J. . ( St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2013 . 191 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $19.95 paper...

...Sarah N. Saffa Abstract Utilizing criminal records from the secular courts, this article examines incidents of sexual relations between parents and their biological children or stepchildren—both of which were considered incestuous under Spanish law—to explore how marriage and the marital...

...Katarzyna Granicka Abstract There are many sources that allowed scholars to study the nature and functions of polygamous marriages of the Nahua nobility. Very few studies, however, focus on the marital relations of the Nahua commoners. This article presents exploratory research into various kinds...

... to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropological and historical scholarship on Amazonia, ranging from shamanic attack to marriage alliances. The paper explores this history...

... and mythologies about an ancient Edenic time before normal human procreation and marriage. The article also holds that the main influence on the content of mythologies was neighboring mythologies, such that each people's telling of ancientness was a parody, but a compassionate one, of its neighbors' tellings...

... of the house. Individually held lands, which were held by women as well as men, were frequently transferred from one house to another and recombined upon marriage, linking the noble houses; they served to maintain the unity and power of the state as a whole. Copyright 2009 by American Society...

..., marriage ties created a region marked, in particular, by a distinctive type of head deformation. While conflicts within the region were limited, raids on people to the south and east, who did not practice head deformation, yielded captives and other booty. Goods were classed into two spheres of exchange...

... and the gray bull Engiro from the Karamoja Plateau to the plains of Turkana is well remembered both among the Jie and among the Turkana people. The memory of this journey is symbolically embodied in the Jie and in the Turkana landscape, in the phases of the Jie marriage ceremonies as well as in the phases...

... woman implicated in the rebellion. This essay, however, clarifies the roles played by Toypurina,Nicolás José, and others in the rebellion and emphasizes the importance of eyewitness native accounts to early California history. Through a careful use of the mission's birth, marriage, and burial records...

... logic where human transactions such as marriage—not “commercial”goods—occupied the highest tier of value in the circulation process. These principles are explored through an analysis of ethnohistorical sources and data from fieldwork in contemporary Upper Napo communities. It is suggested...

... indicates that cacao is an integral component in many rites of passage, including those associated with birth, social personhood, initiation, marriage, and death, as well as the initiation of shamans. As such it becomes an intimate ritual product implicated in areas of social identity and reproduction...

...Gray Whaley This article analyzes social change in the emerging colonial world of the lower Columbia River from 1805 to 1838, particularly regarding gender and sexuality. It teases out distinctions among formal marriages, informal “custom of the country” arrangements, the exercise of sexual...

..., governance, and marriage. As is stressed throughout the essay, masculinity was also juxtaposed with femininity in a number of important ways in Indian society. American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 ‘‘Ranging Foresters’’ and ‘‘Women-Like Men Physical Accomplishment, Spiritual Power, and Indian...

... explores the role of exchange, political marriage, gift giving, and polygyny in Maya and Aztec culture to add further context to Malintzin’s transfer from Indigenous to Conquistador society. It theorizes that Malintzin was never intended to be given to the Spanish invaders as a slave but rather as a bride...

... Nisenan California missions marriage fur trade Native Hawaiians “An Influential Squaw”: Intermarriage and Community in Central California, 1839–1851 Ashley Riley Sousa, Middle Tennessee State University Abstract. Historians examining relations between Indian women and non-­Indian men...