...Ana Sabau Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy and Popular Culture in Modern Mexico . By Wright-Rios Edward . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2014 . xiii + 408 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index . $34.95 paper...

... maize so central to 18-Rabbit’s cosmic vision failed to sustain his world, his kingdom, and his people. Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast 6999 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:4 / sheet 167 of Mexico, 1800–1876. By Terry Rugeley...

... into productive dialogue in this collection—the public history of monuments and radio documentary, the popular history of settler commemoration, the mainline academic his- tory of memoirs and account books, and the creative ethnohistory practiced by the contributors themselves. All take the agency, culture...

... and of the complex interpersonal and cross-cultural encounters that they docu- ment. Several varieties of history are brought into productive dialogue in this collection—the public history of monuments and radio documentary, the popular history of settler commemoration, the mainline academic his- tory of memoirs...

...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...

...Amy M. Ware This brief examination of the early-twentieth-century United States expands academic interpretations of ethnic performance in the popular realm. The case of Will Rogers—Cherokee entertainer, writer, and political pundit—is particularly useful in understanding the representational...

... become increasingly popular. This essay examines the progressive commodification of culture now occurring in these representations and analyzes their popularity among foreign and South African tourists. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Adams, Kathleen M. 1995 Making-up the Toraja...

... time, I argue that the contradictory images of a living, bleeding Eden—found in many popular and scholarly accounts of Madagascar—are rooted in religious and political conflicts that are relevant to the country's ecological history. This case study furthers our general understanding of“the social life...

..., at all matches local paradigms. Second, it compares academia's “own”way of getting at colonial and postcolonial historical problems with the unofficial paleography (and archaeology) through which villagers explore the same. In Huarochirí Province (Peru), popular ethnohistory serves not to reify...

...(especially British)-derived Pakeha, on the other. In particular, the past, present, and future of the nation's foundational document, the Treaty of Waitangi, signed between the first nations and the British Crown in 1840, has dominated popular debate and official policy in recent decades. Other ethno...

...Susan Rasmussen This essay examines the origins and directions of ichumar (also called tichumaren in some regions), a genre of guitar music popular among young Tuaregs in Mali and Niger. Initially composed and performed by Tuareg nationalist/separatist rebels, it is now composed and performed...

...Patricia Pierce Erikson This article considers the historical context, cultural processes, and contemporary meanings of the Makah Cultural and Research Center( mcrc ). While fostering cultural tourism, this museum/cultural center's “self-portrait” mediates popular stereotypes. The mcrc has emerged...

...Steven W. Hackel This article reinterprets the 1785 Indian rebellion at Mission San Gabriel in Alta California by reexamining the testimony of the Indians accused of leading this uprising. For decades, scholarly and popular discussions of this event have focused on the role of Toypurina, an Indian...

... ever said. This essay examines the publication history of these texts and then addresses two questions about the treatment of Indian oratory in the nineteenth century. First, given their uncertain provenance, how and why did these texts become so popular and come to represent Indian eloquence...

...Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster; Rachael Kangas Ix Tab, the ancient Maya suicide goddess, appears in various settings in the contemporary popular culture of Yucatán, Mexico. In a state where the suicide rate is double the Mexican national average, discourses about Ix Tab feed misconceptions about...

...Jason Mancini By the end of the American Revolution, southern New England's Indian population had essentially been declared extinct through popular literature and prevailing opinion. At the same time, there were nearly 4,500 Indians documented in census records in southern New England, 50 percent...

...Kimberly Jenkins Marshall Christianity has experienced dramatic growth among Navajos since 1950, and the exclusive practice of neo-Pentecostal Christianity can now, by some estimates, claim up to 20 percent of the Navajo population. The popularity of neo-Pentecostalism among Navajos has been...

... grounded in historical experiences based on power and hierarchy by white males through popular culture media and texts. As a product of colonialized interactions, Indian mascots are presented as the preferred type of Indian allowed for public display rather than the reality of indigenous peoples...

...Kevin Terraciano Abstract The author presented a draft of this essay as a presidential address at the 2012 meeting of the society in Springfield, Missouri. The theme of the meeting was “the apocalypse,” referring to a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicted a cataclysmic event to occur...