... in postcolonial times by epidemics affecting mostly adults. An example of mimesis gone wrong, the belief in child sorcery is one of those unforeseen and tragic products of the colonial encounter. American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Agüero, O. A. 1994 El milenio en la Amazonía: Mito-utopía Tupí...

...Gerhard Schutte During the apartheid years in South Africa, traditional African cultures were mostly hidden from the public, except for museum displays and governmentally supervised presentations. Since the abolition of apartheid, the“cultural village” as a display of “authentic” tribal life has...

... and tourist site of Chichén Itzá. A descriptive history of the town, mostly based in secondary literature and key primary sources from archives, is presented with two goals in mind. The first objective is to address ethnographically specific questions regarding the politics of this community, including...

... Brown’s victory meant to and did for a small and mostly forgotten indigenous community. More specifically, it is about how Brown and other Narragansett parlayed the runner’s physical accomplishments into meaningful, community-wide social, economic, and political advancements. Copyright 2020 by American...

...Noel E. Smyth Abstract In 1731 a French army in colonial Louisiana enslaved hundreds of Natchez families and shipped them to Saint-Domingue where they mostly disappear from the written records. This article analyzes tantalizing clues about Natchez families and other Native American slaves...

..., conducted long-distance expeditions that stretched hundreds of miles, and capitalized on their navigational experience by ferrying visitors across the river. Yet historians have mostly overlooked their mobility on the Missouri River. This article, which provides the first detailed account of their river...

...Colleen O’neill Abstract Closely examining the experiences of mostly female Navajo students, this article demonstrates that the Intermountain Indian School played a pivotal role in carrying out postwar Indian Policy. Like Progressive Era Indian boarding schools, its gendered curriculum prepared...

... US Infantry wrote to his superior in 1837 that, after five days of snow, women and children were seen mostly naked with no shoes “bending their way Onward, with most Piteous and heart rending Cries, from Cold” (xi–xxii). The documents portray a chaotic time when the majority of the Creek people...

... the English-language scholarship produced in the last few decades, the ethnographic literature, archival sources (mostly from Arizona repositories and the National Archives), and government publications. Because of the scant use of Spanish-language sources, Hispanic perspectives are overlooked...

..., the real surprise is the inclusion of the critical essay by Garnette Joseph, a Kari- funa representative from the island of Dominica. One indigenous person of the Caribbean out of seventeen mostly academic, nonindigenous contribu- tors may be considered low for a book about the indigenous people...

....) Susan Elizabeth Ramírez, DePaul University Catherine Julien has written an important book about how to read Inca his- tory—a history we have come to assume was mostly told and only belatedly written down by others. She focuses...

..., contacts, movements, numbers, and cultural activities of primitive peoples from the earliest written records concerning them, onward in point of time.” In this definition, Wheeler-Voegelin lays out a research agenda mostly derived from the research for the Indians Claims Commission. Today, however...

...Gabriel Martinez-Serna Rice divides the study into five parts. The first, mostly theoretical, looks at various methodologies and theoretical models she uses in constructing her argument, including the environmental context, the frontiers and borderlands paradigm, and world systems theory...

..., communication, and culture and on ideas of knowledge, with the different categories overlapping quite often. The chapter is followed by forty-three entries on the Spanish situation, con- trasted by the same number of equivalents on Spanish America. The articles, mostly two to three pages long, talk about...

... of William and Mary In very distinct ways, these two books contribute to a veritable explosion of work on indigenous Andean (mostly Quechua) life under Spanish rule. Both span the entire colonial period. Andrien’s is a mature, highly...

... of common people’s practices or experiences. Mostly, the available sources detail institutional concerns. Taylor, thankfully, soldiers on. We learn that the formative period for image devotions and shrines is the “long seventeenth century” (1580–1720) followed by a century of expansion but few new...

... to advanced students of Andean literature. Most of the basic historical questions are raised (for example: Where was Vilcabamba but the answers are mostly buried in dense discussions of linguistic patterns and other technical matters. Even with an added “pre-introduction,” titled “A Necessary...

..., that will remain the true legacy of the Jesup Expedition. The volume is attractive and well-designed, with relatively large- format pages (8½ by 11 inches). The seventy-nine figures, mostly photo- graphs from the amnh collection...

... material rewards for self-identifying as an Indian in Brazil Tseng 2003.12.12 06:08 211 Book Reviews 773 (indeed, there are mostly costs as Indians suffer discrimination and outright...

... necessarily self-identify­ as New Philologists, but philologist-­ethnohistorians they are, and the issue makes a major contribution to the New Philology. Although the temporal focus is mostly the colonial period, the discussion spans some eight cen- turies, from the Late Postclassic to today. The Maya...