... Ecuador . N. E. Whitten Jr.,ed. Pp. 677 -704. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest: A Backwoods History of Ecuador’s Montaña Region Eduardo O. Kohn...

... Salvation through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Span- ish Colonial Frontier. By H. Henrietta Stockel. (Albuqerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii + 179 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $27.95 cloth.) Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez, Texas...

...John F. Schwaller Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New. By Daniel T. Reff. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiii + 290 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth, $21.99 paper...

...Brian Stross Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala . By Deuss Krystyna . ( London : Guatemalan Maya Centre , 2007 . 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 paper.) Copyright 2014...

...John F. Schwaller This article examines the practice of ordaining young men because of their personal language ability, a process referred to as an ordination a título de lengua . As a result of reforms codified by the Catholic Church in the Council of Trent, prospective priests were required...

... the missionaries and the Maya in their struggle for control over the complex nature of evolving colonial sexuality. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Friars, Parish Priests, and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545–1808 John F. Chuchiak IV, Missouri...

...Davide Domenici Summary This article discusses the Descrittione dell’India occidentale , a neglected Italian sixteenth-century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought from Mexico to Italy by an anonymous priest. The text contains data on Mesoamerican...

...Lori Boornazian Diel The Manuscrito del aperreamiento ( Manuscript of the Dogging ), from Cholula ca. 1560, presents a graphic image of a dog attacking a bound indigenous priest. Certainly appalling to modern viewers, the work is often seen as an indictment against the Spaniards pictured...

...Sarah E. Jackson Dictionaries of Mayan languages, recorded by Spanish priests in the early years of the colonial period, provide a rich body of data for investigating indigenous systems of governance around the time of contact. Dictionary sources drawn from four geographical regions of the Maya...

..., and power dynamics. I contrast colonial Mapuche (Reche) perceptions of machi as co-gender specialists having alternative sexualities with the discourses of sodomy, sorcery, and effeminacy used by Spanish and criollo soldiers and Jesuit priests. I explore the process by which the categories of the two groups...

... delivered the new priest, Father Pius Boehm, to his post there, just east of the Missouri River on the Dakota prairie. Tribal leaders and their wives on their way to the Fort Thompson agency stopped by both to introduce themselves and to warn the new priest to mind his manners...

... that he is merely the “faithful interpreter” of the indigenous peoples who took part in its production (329). This is evident in many sections, particularly a priest’s lengthy narrative of the history of the Tarascan kings that comprises almost all of the second section of the document and con...

... their accounting and inventorying practices to the Inka calendrical model(s) for taxation and religious purposes (Brokaw 2010 : 192; MacCormack 1998 : 302; Zuidema 1989 : 343–44). 7 Stemming from a fairly stable core of distinct principles and conventions devised by priests and native Andean assistants...

... tolerance. His research also suggests that the prosecution of illicit sexual activities allowed local officials to fight over social and political authority. The essay by John F. Chuchiak IV demonstrates that the Yucatec Maya understood these terms of engagement as well and charged priests...

... November 1964, when Cavallera was appointed bishop of Marsabit. At that time Cavallera had two groups of missionaries from Italy ready to work in the North: his confreres of the Consolata Missionaries of Turin and two diocesan priests from Alba. In August 1963 the Consolata fathers went to Archer’s...

... Paul Kelton a village gathered at the Council House and consumed medicines pre- pared by the Ooleestooleeh, or priest, who presided over the Itohvnv. A specially consecrated medicine man, or Teekanawghistee, led dances and prayerful songs to ‘‘exorcise’’ the village of impurities. For seven days...

...) . Townsend Joan B. 1974 Journals of Nineteenth-Century Russian Priests to the Tanaina: Cook Inlet, Alaska . Arctic Anthropology 11 ( 1 ): 1 – 30 . 1965 Ethnohistory and Culture Change of the Iliamna Tanaina . PhD diss , University of California , Los Angeles . Vancouver George...

... settlers. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 Muiscas New Kingdom of Granada miracle Chiquinquirá caciques On 3 December 1587, a mixed group of Catholic priests, Spanish city–dwellers, and indigenous devotees began a seventy-six-kilometer journey eastward from...