...Robin Ridington Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History . Edited by Boyd Colleen E. and Thrush Coll . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . xl + 317 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $35.00 paper...

... another sheds light on the selective and ideologically skewed way in which they represent the past. While La memoria de don Melchor Caltzin focuses on a strict set of events to argue for the preservation of the rights of a Nahua community residing in the pre-Hispanic capital of Tzintzuntzan, it also sheds...

...: New Star Books. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-009 Book Reviews 527 Reflections on American Indian History: Honoring the Past, Building a Future. Edited by Albert A. Hurtado. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xx + 150 pp., preface...

..., these are not the romantic revitalization movements of yester- year. Rather, they are complex and hybrid constructions that seek inspira- tion from the past (as well as the moral authority bestowed by claims of cultural continuity) to build a future for themselves in a globalized world. These groups have taken advantage...

...Martha Few Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present. By Susan Kellogg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 338 pp., glossary, bibliography, index. $74.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory...

.... The post-Conquest focus of Chimal- pahin’s work, much of it indeed dating from the time in which this justly celebrated Nahua writer flourished, complements his better-known annals and texts concerning the precontact era, the past of the Mexicas, and the story of his own home town, Amaquemecan...

...Nicola Sharratt Rituals of the Past: Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology . Edited by Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista ( Boulder : University of Colorado Press , 2017 . xi +321 pp., figures, tables, list of contributors, index. $81.00...

...Elena FitzPatrick Sifford Portraying the Aztec Past: The Codices Boturini, Azcatitlan, and Aubin . By Angela Herren Rajagopalan . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2019 . ix +198 pp., illustrations and tables, acknowledgments, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 soft...

... and lawyer. It argues that this dual position presents both risks and benefits for ethnohistorical research. On the one hand, wearing both hats entails the risk of digging into the past to make a case for current land claims, thus losing sight of a more complex and comprehensive understanding of the past...

... to it and to also help explain the actions they took to defend it from the encroachments of European settlers and colonial expansion. American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Ethnogeography and the Native American Past James Taylor Carson, Queen’s University...

... more bold claims here is that the bilateral flexibly extend- able ‘‘family’’ has replaced the matrilineal clan and house group as the dominant political unit over the past century, and that every village has four to eight such families with one or two tending to dominate local poli- tics. His case...

... November, Antananarivo, Madagascar. Constructing Mikea Identity: Past or Present Links to Forest and Foraging James W. Yount, University of Wisconsin–Madison Tsiazonera...

...- can society. Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled. By Julia Tuñón Pablos. Translated by Alan Hynds. (Austin: University of Texas Press,1999. xi +144 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index, illustrations. paper...

...Carolyn R. Anderson American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Representing the Lakota Past: Document, Text, Narrative Carolyn R. Anderson, St. Olaf College 6577 ETHNOHISTORY 49:1 / sheet 221 of 229...

...Steven J. Peach Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts . By Richter Daniel K. . ( Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2011 . 502 pp., prologue, illustrations, notes, further reading, credits, acknowledgments, index . $35.00 cloth.) Copyright...

... on Canada’s Native Pasts. Edited by Ted Binnema and Susan Neylan. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. xvi + 280 pp., introduction, maps, bibliographic references, and index. Can$34.95 paper.) Carolyn Podruchny, York University Arthur J. (Skip) Ray is a significant path breaker...

... closer to indigenous epistemology than are alphabetic documents. They reveal the indigenous framework for conceptualizing and recording the past. As objects, they are the sites of discourse about the past, and they convey the authority of that past. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Amos Megged A close study of Metepec's tale of remembrance brings to light distinct and unique representations of significant episodes and social and political circumstances in its pre-Cortesian past, as well as in the early colonial period. These divergent representations were created by closed...