... exposed the fragility of attempts to subordinate these peoples and seize their lands as the colonial period came to an end. Altering the politics of empire, native capacities played an unrecognized role in the history of this decisive era. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018...

... Rebellion and the American Revolution. In New York the story was different, as the war “strained, but did not completely sever, the cul- tural accommodation that prevailed in the New York–Iroquoian border- lands” (181). The shared political, religious, cultural, family, economic, and military bonds...

...Owen H. Jones Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nijai’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors.” By Mallory E. Matsumoto ( Boulder : University of Colorado Press , 2017 . viii + 423 pp., figures, maps, tables, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography...

...Douglas K. Miller Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887 . Edited by Cobb Daniel M. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . 316 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index...

... “ordinary,” nonrebel caciques engaged in political alliance making on the ground. While traditional renditions of the Caste War represent it as a race war, I show how, for Uicab, strategic rather than racial concerns remained pivotal in shaping political alliance making at the local level. In doing this, I...

...Gregory E. Smoak Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life . By Daschuk James . ( Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press , 2013 . xxii + 318 pp., acknowledgments, introductions, illustrations, bibliography, index . $39.95 cloth...

... 193 Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Imagination: Cheyenne-Arapaho Politics. By Loretta Fowler. (University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxviii + 368 pp. $55.00 cloth.) Anne Terry Straus, University of Chicago In this book, Fowler confronts the familiar ‘‘crabs in the bucket’’ image of Indian...

...Scott Eastman The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. By Peter Guardino. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. ix + 405 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. $84.95 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews...

... colonies/founding states 676 Book Reviews greatly influenced their subsequent relations with Indian populations, but Rosen simplifies their histories as former English colonies. The fractious nature of New York politics clearly affected Indian...

...Jonathan Truitt After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 . By Connell William F. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . vii + 316 pp., illustrations, tables, map, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index . $45.00 cloth...

...David R. M. Beck Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment . By Miller Mark Edwin . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . xiv + 475 pp., illustrations, foreword, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper...

...Jessica Y. Stern Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World . By LaCombe Michael A. . ( Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . 224 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, index . $39.95 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American...

... their forest lifestyle and the demands of administrative development and political struggle, between tradition and bureaucracy’’ (3). Ronald Niezen then introduces a fine term for a kind of process far from unique to the Cree: ‘‘politics...

... Ancient Oaxaca. By Richard E. Blanton, Gary M. Feinman, Stephen A. Kowalewski, and Linda M. Nicholas. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ix pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, bibliography, bibliographic essay, index. cloth, paper.) The Shadow of Monte Alban: Politics and Historiography...

... Native American community whose identity had been systematically denied for nearly two hundred years. Multiple perceptions of identity and history collided with the inevitable defeat of the Yuchi's petition. The more subtle concerns of political resistance and the reinforcement of Yuchi identity were...

..., bibliography, index, illustrations, map. $34.95 cloth.) 2004 Book Reviews 203 Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala. By Martha Few. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xiv + 188 pp., preface...

...”: Emerging Gay Communities and Gender and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Culture, Health, and Sexuality 1 (3): 239 -60. Kramer, Heinreich, and James Sprenger 1970 [1486] Malleus Maleficarum . New York: Benjamin Blom. Kulick, Don 1998 Travestí: Sex, Gender,and Culture among Brazilian...

...Peter M. Beattie The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas. By Lesley Gill. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xviii + 281 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $19.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007...

...—in relation to the photographic representation of Mayas. In the fair, backward, inefficient “Indian” Guatemala was contrasted with a modern, efficient nation. Maya “pueblos,” showcasing crafts and indigenous life, were reconstructed alongside midway rides and technology exhibits. Using a political economic...

... Space of Sovereignty: The Politics of Postcolonial U.S.-Indige- nous Relations. By Kevin Bruyneel. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxiv + 313 pp., note on terminology, introduction, conclu- sion, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. $67.50 cloth, $22.50 paper...