... ‘‘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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Nancy P. Appelbaum The significance of this important book extends far beyond Brazil. Some of its arguments apply to other regional groups across the Americas who have similarly asserted themselves as the modern and white exemplars of their nations (e.g., Colombia’s antioqueños , Mexico’s...

... 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...

... of the book address tensions surrounding discourses on republican modernity, including Europhile inclinations dominating discourses on cultural modernity among Latin American intellectuals before the midcentury; the flourishing and impact of an animated democratic culture and of republican political modernity...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Donald Pollock Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity . By Alberts Thomas Karl . ( Farnham, England : Ashgate Publishing Ltd. , 2015 . xiv+286 pp., introduction, bibliography, index . $122.00 cloth.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Thomas Alberts offers...

...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...

...Sean P. Harvey Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century . By Robert Woods Sayre . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . xviii+405 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index . $35.00...

...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...

...Leo J. Garofalo Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. By Irene Silverblatt. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 299 pp., about the series, acknowledgments, prologue, afterword, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper.) American...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...