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...Marie-Eve J. T. Presber [email protected] Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820–1950 . By Brian Gettler . ( Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2020 . 336 pp., maps, photos. $37.95 paperback.) Copyright 2022 by American Society...

...Martin Nesvig In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including...

..., erasures, and marginalia. Three writing genres are identifiable, and the content of these writings has an unusual emphasis on ways to represent money and counts of commodities, particularly cacao. The Pipil demonstrated their independence from the Mixtec and Aztec empires through writing by using...

... 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Seventeenth-century colonial North America dual currency system Iroquois money New Netherland sewant/wampum Entangled Economies: New Netherland’s Dual Currency System and Its Relation to Iroquois Monetary Practice Mario Schmidt...

... : 15–16, 137–38). In respect to treaty payments themselves, scholars have identified the ways Indigenous people invested symbolic value in the “Queen’s money,” whereby the treaty’s payment became “an important annual renewal of the treaty relationship” (Anderson 2010 : 85–87); annuities signified...

..., and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults. Oceania 70 : 325 -44. 2001 The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space,Persons, and Money in Bali (West New Britain). In Emplaced Myth. Alan Rumsey and James Weiner, eds. Pp. 161 -88. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Lawrence, Peter 1964 Road...

... History. Bloch, Maurice, and Jonathan Parry 1989 Introduction:Money and the Morality of Exchange. In Money and the Morality of Exchange . Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry, eds. Pp. 1 -32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Boomert, Arie 1984 The Arawak Indians of Trinidad and Coastal Guiana...

... Anthropology conference in Hilo , hi, 2-7 February. 1998e Money, Politics, and Persons in Papua New Guinea. Social Analysis 42 (2): 132 -49. 1998f End Times Prophesies from Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea:1995-1997. Journal of Millennial Studies 1(1). http://www.mille.org . 1999a Female Spirit...

... of an original written in Nahuatl in 1546. In this will, Angelina Poqui stated that Martín Tentli owed her money. When or if the money was paid back, she wanted it to go to her children, and if the chil- dren wished, they could request something for her soul—probably masses, but the testament does...

... indígenas of his pueblo. The governor also tried to eliminate the possibility that the juez de paz could exploit the indigenous laborers. He thus decreed that “neither should the jueces force the indígenas to labor for less money than they are supposed to.”28 In order to add even more weight...

... authorities did not receive a salary for serving in the local council, but state law did allow them to keep the money they collected from fines. Local authorities fined and requested payment from drunken individuals immediately after encountering them, and if they did not have the money to pay, they would...

... compete with the casinos near or adjacent to the Navajo Nation, thereby curbing the ¯ow of money leaving the Navajo reservation (Hender- son and Russell 1997: 295). Navajo Nation leaders clearly understood the Navajo casino frequenters as potential clientele, reasoning that if they drove to Apache...

... reveals, her success in her academic pursuits changes her standing in her community. She shows that her duties as a daughter, such as sending money home, influence the position of her parents. Although best understood as a contemporary account of illness and treatment, Cruz’s essay does present some...

... fulfilled the state’s responsibilities with Indian tribes. At statehood, Massachusetts paid thirty thousand dollars to Maine “for performing certain duties and obligations to the Indians.” 9 The state created an “Indian fund” for the money, and deposits from land transfers, lease payments...

... Michael Asch respect. While in both countries they contained clauses in which lands were formally ceded and surrendered, in the United States—unlike in Canada— these clauses were connected directly to payment of money and other bene- fits.1 That is, in the United States (and here I am speaking...

... that subsequent generations of colonists would shut down. In the case of Wompas and Prask, those opportunities depended on selling Indian land. Early in his career, Wompas learned that if he persuaded English people that he (or his father or father-in-law) was a sachem, they would give him money in exchange...

... and reciprocal exchange to global flows of money, capital, and ideas. They may not be easily reconciled because the question of origins and the interest in identify- ing the fundamental nature of social relationships, which figure so promi...

.... Sukuna noted that while the Vatukaloko were in Kadavu certain lands were sold ‘‘and the money paid out to the wrong people However, since by then the Colonial Sugar Refin- eryhadleasedandboughtthelandandwanteditforitscattlerunatYaqara, he denied the claim. Since those days, the Vatukaloko have...

... in Ranongga, Solomon Islands. Oceania 74 : 61 -80. Robbins, Joel, and David Akin 1999 An Introduction to Melanesian Currencies: Agency, Identity, and Social Reproduction. In Money and Modernity: State and Local Currencies in Melanesian Societies. David Akin and Joel Robbins, eds. Pp. 1 -40. Pittsburgh...

.... This stands in stark contrast to the milpas worked by the migrants in Cancún. Cancún’s milpas—restaurants, hotels, construction— and their products—wages and money—are commodities, the result of the split between the producer...