...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...

... practice. As such, I explore the dynamics of the Cherokee Nation as a uniquely indigenous state—one that is struggling to balance its ability to assert indigenous approaches toward environmental management with its power to regulate its own citizens' access to sparse lands and resources. Copyright 2014...

... 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...

... in practice, and how did First Nations peoples respond? Here it is useful to look at the available archival records, including letter books and monthly reports, from Indian Agent Hilton Keith at the Touchwood Hills Agency and his contemporary Indian Agent Jno. P. Wright at the File Hills Agency. First Nations...

... 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...

... these rituals in an early-sixteenth-century context and argues that the Church partitioned the colonial practice of native rituals into two categories: the unacceptable (sacri¢ce, idolatry, pilgrimages to caves and mountains, drunkenness, ingestion of hallucinogens, lewd behav- ior...

... with a number of local languages, a practice that was not uncommon for men who were trading goods, such as axes or bird plumes, across linguistic boundaries.) There are two com- monly collected narratives about Magruai. First, he...

... 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...

...-definition. By contrast, Pauline Wakeham finds that the reconciliation staged in opening festivities claims a change in museum practice as a wholesale political transformation and so promotes the interests of the state. Two essays address the “hemispheric” scope claimed by the NMAI (on account...

... non-​Indians. Contributor Yvonne Boyer asserts that by challenging Canadian law and other discriminatory practices, First Nations women took a leading role in restoring balance and gender equality to their communities. The second section explores the efforts of First Nations women to com...

... for those living farther north. James Isham, a fur trader who served at York Factory of the Hudson’s Bay Com- pany (HBC) during the mid-eighteenth century, described this practice in his Observations: if one of a family Dies their nearest freind [sic] or Ralations Burries them Very oft’n...

...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...

... methodological and theoretical positioning is significant and will be of interest to scholars working to define “genocidal practice” as it relates to the histories of Indigenous peoples in North America. For example, Lindsay begins with Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin and his 1944 definition of genocide...

... the Flesh: The Role of the Steambath in Highland Maya (Tzeltal-Tzotzil) Ethnomedicine .” Journal of Latin American Lore 20 , no. 1 : 3 – 96 . Hanks William F. 1990 . Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Hernández...

... the household or the community. Another large-scale social practice was getting married within kinship proximity, especially the practice of levirate. The Inquisition investigated the cases of what (for them) was considered incest, disrupting the way in which Nahua society used to function as well as upsetting...

... the fraud and cruelty of such transactions. These practices are committed chiefly by the white men, who inhabit among us: from them they are sold to the Masters of Coasting vessels (except a few that are bought by the English at Black River) and carried over to South Carolina, Jamaica, and the French West...

... commonly found in colonial encounters, while inviting deeper engagement with translation as a special site where colonial relations are constructed. Keywords. translation, Chontal Maya, practice, título, genre Introduction: Revising Narratives about the Conquest In recent years, scholars have...