... and Afri- can subjects as savages or cannibals, thereby justifying the oppression of these peoples. The two subsequent essays examine the reinvention of the modern museum in the past twenty years, as institutions have employed new strategies in interpreting indigenous history and culture...

... Mushulatubbee build his modern two- room dogtrot cabin facing east ‘‘so that the rising sun would shine in the windows every morning and remind the chief of [the Choctaw deity] Aba’s presence Or did he orient it toward the east...

... ‘‘much of the state’s power comes from the way it links the power of the modern with the magic of ‘culture’ ’’ (74). Nelson is much taken with the magical realist qualities of Guatemalan cultures, and she employs innovative...

... vigorous debates are staged across the conversations they identify. The primary one concerns not only the conjuncture of multiple epistemologies (Western and indigenous, modern and postmodern) but also competing demands for celebratory or critical histories. The American Indian Movement has...

... for a reconsideration of what constitutes the spaces of indigenous history, moving beyond traditional territories and topics to include urban areas, metropoles, vernacular spaces, and the settler imaginary. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Monument, Mobility, and Modernity...

... archaeology has become a key resource for anthropologists who seek to explain the historical contingencies of cul- tural variation in the modern world (e.g., Lightfoot 1995; Leone 1995; Orser 1996, 2000). Historical archaeologists effectively have overhauled the scope of their subdiscipline. Increasingly...

... mediated these transformations and was reshaped by them. Local gentry worked as cultural and political brokers, joining forces with state officials in remaking Yucatán as a “modern” and “civilized” state through infrastructural improvements and education aimed at transforming largely indigenous, rural...

...Nancy P. Appelbaum The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil . By Weinstein Barbara . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . xii+458 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper, $104.95 cloth...

... Melanesian self capable of reincorporating the globalizing processes of modernity. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Aquart, Helen E. 2001 The Pomio Kivung Association,East New Britain. PhD diss. , University of Newcastle,Australia. Blythe, Jennifer M. 1992 Climbing a Mountain without...

...Victor M. Uribe-Uran The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America . By Sanders James E. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . xi+339 pp., prologue, introduction, maps, images, bibliography, index . $94.95...

...Donald Pollock Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity is a challenging study, but one that bristles with insights that every anthropologist and specialist on religion will find essential. Shamanism’s links to modern neoliberalism are obvious—the emergence of global shamanic businesses...

...Garry Sparks Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K’iche’ Community . By MacKenzie C. James . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . xi+368 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index . $34.95 paper.) Copyright...

... modernity occasionally rings true for certain writers, it is a blunt analytical tool that flattens Native diversity and downplays both Native adaptation and the porousness of cultural boundaries. For scholars who lean heavily on the writers Sayre examines, Modernity and Its Others could be a valuable...

... their Brazilian and Afri- can subjects as savages or cannibals, thereby justifying the oppression of these peoples. The two subsequent essays examine the reinvention of the modern museum in the past twenty years, as institutions have employed new strategies in interpreting indigenous history and culture...

... with the legacies of historic trauma. As Anita Olsen Harper shows, aborigi- nal women also take on critical roles in the modern fight against violence against women. Through organizing the Sisters in Spirit campaign in 2005, Native women healed communities and gave a voice to the murdered...

... as final ceremonies of those mitotes every five years; celebration, and of the compli- cated and prolonged ceremonial cycle of the Catholic church (which Coyle calls the ‘‘Day-of-the-Dead/Holy-Week Cycle The Fragmented Present: Mesoamerican Societies Facing Modernization. Acta Mesoamericana, vol. 9...

...Paul Sullivan By Gary H. Gossen. (New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxiii + 309 pp., preface,illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth.) 2000 Book Reviews Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico. By Gary H...

...Walter E. Little By Victor Montejo. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xiv + 287 pp., illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95 cloth.) 2001 Book Reviews Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern...

... as a matter of texts. Not a set of doctrines or beliefs to be adopted, Islam inhered in its language, spoken and written. Uttering Arabic and possessing spiritually potent religious manuscripts were the dominant practices shaping Islam's spread, reception, and structure in early modern South Sulawesi...

... with the legacies of historic trauma. As Anita Olsen Harper shows, aborigi- nal women also take on critical roles in the modern fight against violence against women. Through organizing the Sisters in Spirit campaign in 2005, Native women healed communities and gave a voice to the murdered...