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...Philip A. Dennis American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Review Essay Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. (Durham, NC: Duke...

...Karl H. Offen Identity differentiation between the Sambo and Tawira Miskitu in eastern Nicaragua and northeastern Honduras is examined with respect to African integration, settlement geography, differential relations with British settlers and Spanish officials, neighboring Indians, and market...

...Philip A. Dennis Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Ferguson, James 1999...

...Wolfgang Gabbert The Miskitu Indians of Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras are one of the most numerous indigenous groups in the southern part of Central America. Never conquered by the Spaniards during the colonial era, they first came under control of the Central American republics in the late...

...Luciano Baracco Abstract Geopolitical changes taking place in late nineteenth-century Central America laid the pathway for Nicaragua’s long-desired incorporation of the autonomous Mosquito Reservation, which was located on its Caribbean Coast. This article brings to light the diplomatic mission...

... Nicaragua and Honduras. 8 Prior to European contact, the Miskitu were one of many Indigenous groups in Central America living in small, dispersed kin-based communities and subsisting on hunting, fishing, and swidden agriculture. Their position vis-à-vis other Indigenous groups changed significantly...

...-century indigenous war- riors as Tekún Umán and Atlacatl have become iconic figures, yet modern indigenes are marginalized, erased, and even murdered, identity politics are particularly complex. Countries like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica have long held to their myths of mestizaje...

... connections, and their importance for understanding a key moment in Anglo-Spanish and Spanish-Miskitu relations. 11 AGI, Estado, 48, N. 3, “Conde del Campo de Alange, Proyecto de establecimiento en el río San Juan de Nicaragua,” Guatemala, 30 May 1794. Additional Spanish sources on the Terry expedition...

... of Nicaragua), and southern (Costa Rica and Panama); and (3) contact scenarios between invading Spanish forces and the indigenous groups to which their imperial ventures exposed them. Chapter 4 relays how Mesoamerican influences emanating from Mexico shaped Central American mores. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 offer...

... Nicaragua and Costa Rica. A group of 112 buccaneers led by the notorious Jean François, better known as L’Olonnais, made their way up the river in seven pirogues and canoes to seize Spanish trading vessels. After a series of failed assaults the men were desperate to acquire some booty and possibly a useful...

... risk, uncertainty, and violence that is woven into the fabric of daily life in many parts of Latin America. Colo- nial and postcolonial regimes were intolerant of dissent. During the Somoza years in Nicaragua, for example, anyone who dared to criticize the regime su¥ered the severing of an ear...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...

...: Navigating Race on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. By Baron L. Pineda. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 280 pp., map, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University This book’s title refers to the ethnogenesis of the Miskitu and Creole...