...Franz Scaramelli; Kay Tarble Transformations in Mapoyo burial practice since the eighteenth century are documented in archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence and correlated to the ongoing process of contact. In this article we discuss the postcontact history of the Mapoyo...

.... As the subtitle indicates, Bucko presents the ritual in its historical manifestations as well as its contemporary practice and discusses both in their dialectical constructions of tradition and its constant re-creation in new times and cir...

..., Political Organization, and Ritual Practice in the Central Andes Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 6999 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:4 / sheet 131 of The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. By Thomas...

... 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 Seventeenth-century colonial North America dual currency system Iroquois money New Netherland sewant/wampum Entangled Economies: New Netherland’s Dual Currency System and Its Relation to Iroquois Monetary Practice Mario Schmidt...

... is not an essentialized cultural practice but a historically contingent one—a reflection of specific events. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Coast Salish rock art cultural memory demographic collapse In this article we consider a historicized, noninterpretive approach to Tsleil...

... issues that stem from the imposed land management programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and practical issues in which the results of federal policies like allotment inhibit tribal access to and control over resources within Cherokee Nation boundaries. In this article, I trace the origins...

... Lost Harvests . Figure 1. “Sample Pass, 1886,” LAC, RG 10, vol. 3584, file 1130, part 1B. Figure 1. “Sample Pass, 1886,” LAC, RG 10, vol. 3584, file 1130, part 1B. This article is an examination of DIA archival records that reveal the pass system in practice. It is the product of five...

.... Introduction: Latencies and Realizations in Millennial Practices Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, University of Pittsburgh 5996 Ethnohistory / 47:1 / sheet 5 of 281 The millennium is a time...

...Sabine Hyland Of Summits and Sacriflce: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices . By Besom Thomas . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2009 . xii + 230 pp., prologue, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index . $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American...

... of place-names. This article argues that the practice demonstrates a form of cartographic imagination that is based on a different theorization of the relationship between space and time. Contrasting the formal technology of cartography with the Palikur performative representations of “spatiotemporality...

... are organized into four “critical conversations.” “History and Development” comprises Ira Jacknis’s history of George Gustav Heye’s collection and exhibition practices, Patricia Pierce Erikson’s consideration of a Native American Museums Movement and its reverberations at the Smithsonian, and Judith...

... their communities, in particular Canada’s 1876 Indian Act, repealed in 1985, that denied official status to aboriginal women who married non-​Indians. Contributor Yvonne Boyer asserts that by challenging Canadian law and other discriminatory practices, First Nations women took a leading role in restoring...

... abandonment, it was not complete. Even into the twentieth century some groups mourned in the traditional way, while others abandoned or modified these practices. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Historical Mourning Practices Observed among the Cree and Ojibway Indians of the Central Subarctic...

...James Taylor Carson Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. By Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 454 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007...

... such as codices painted during the Postclassic period (13 th to 15 th centuries) in the northern Maya area indicates that these associations have a longtime depth, spanning at least a millennium. Ethnohistoric sources from highland Guatemala, paired with contemporary practices in that region, provide further...

... and prohibition of such marriages had on Nahua society. The Nahuas could either reshape their communities, by adjusting to the new rules, or continue their precolonial practices in hiding. Either way, the imposed Christianization can be analyzed through the notion of the cultural trauma, which occurred when...

.... This is unfortunate. Sent by the Miskitu king to apprise the British Government of usury trade practices by British subjects in the western Caribbean, the embassy included four Miskitu leaders, including Duke Isaac, the author of our letter, two captive Ngäbé Indians from today’s Panama, and other Indigenous peoples...

...Sarahh Scher Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices . Edited by Dillehay Tom D. . ( Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2011 . vii + 425 pp., preface, index . $40.00 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 Book...

.... I discuss how translation practices contributed to the creation of the Chontal text and then analyze the systematic discrepancies between it and the contemporary Spanish translation. I show that even where the translation closely follows the original, the message is radically altered. This case...