...Jean M. O'Brien; Lisa Blee This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri...

...Manuella Meyer Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 . By McCrea Heather . ( Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press , 2011 . 288 pp., acknowledgments, afterword, illustrations, map, bibliography, index . $27.95 paper...

...-scale public archaeology. Several trends in career trajectories are evident over time. In the early twentieth century, women often assisted their husbands in their profes- sional endeavors. During the New Deal era of the...

... clandestine public sphere. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Alcina Franch, José 1993 Calendario y religión entre los zapotecos . Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Anderson, Benedict 1991 Imagined Communities . London: Verso. Archivo Histórico Judicial de...

..., acknowledgments, introduction, contributors, index. $29.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Book Reviews Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground. By Christina Taylor Beard-Moose. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. 185...

.... $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Book Reviews Public Indians, Private Cherokees: Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground. By Christina Taylor Beard-Moose. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. 185 pp., illustrations...

... essays were conceived as well as to locate the essays within the scholarship that has emerged since publication. Thus at any number of levels, the collection makes strikingly apt Kugel and Mur- phy’s dedication, “for our students, past, present, and future”—indeed, all scholars in both history and...

...Karen Racine Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. By Carlos Forment. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxiii + 442 pp., preface, introduction, figures, tables, concluding remarks, index. $35.00 cloth.) American Society...

... Dutch language and history and the Indian people of the Hudson Valley, respectively. Before this publication, those seeking information on Indian people from Van der Donck and without facility in seventeenth-century Dutch were forced to rely on Jeremiah Johnson’s imperfect and...

.... It thus functions in ways similar to the Habermasian “public sphere,” with the crucial difference that it presupposes a different kind of polity, made up of different kinds of agents. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be...

...Katherine M. B. Osburn Abstract This article analyzes how Arizona’s Indigenous leaders responded to attempts by the Arizona legislature to impose the state’s criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian reservations under Public Law 280. Indigenous Arizonans’ activism included requiring tribal...

... of the Hudson Valley, respectively. Before this publication, those seeking information on Indian people from Van der Donck and without facility in seventeenth-century Dutch were forced to rely on Jeremiah Johnson’s imperfect and incomplete translation first published in 1841. In 1968...

... Indianized other as mascot becomes the contested site for these cultural appropriations. The manipulated body of the Indian mascot is presented for the public gaze in stark contrast to the reality of Native American lives and realities. The consumptive aspects of these public displays reinforce stereotypes...

... youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works and to valorize Malagasy forests through conservation and commodification. I argue that these initiatives sent contradictory messages to...

... many Tzeltal and Tzotzil indigenous communities, the INI employed bilingual indigenous “cultural promoters” to negotiate its programs in education, road construction, and public health. As it turns out, the INI's most innovative negotiating tool was a bilingual hand-puppet troupe, the Teatro Petul...

...Chris Andersen Anchored in public memory discussions most recently inaugurated by Pierre Nora's distinction between “sites” and “environments” of memory, this article juxtaposes the official telling of Métis history in national historic sites (in this case, the Batoche National Historic Site in...

... land for farming, the museum at Natividad is open to the public and celebrates the role of Zapotec miners in this industrial sector. Together, both of these sites reveal a Zapotec people's history of industrialization and the complicated nature of capitalism and ethnic identity. In addition to dealing...

... objects from Indian communities a century ago—into private and public collections, for aesthetic and scientific purposes—an ethnohistorical approach finds intersections of exchange within Nicholson's extensive correspondence that reveal a complex web of relationships among buyers and sellers. Copyright...

...Gerhard Schutte During the apartheid years in South Africa, traditional African cultures were mostly hidden from the public, except for museum displays and governmentally supervised presentations. Since the abolition of apartheid, the“cultural village” as a display of “authentic” tribal life has...

... Kwakwaka'wakw community and with a larger public, sometimes referred to as“outsiders” or tourists. I will attempt to account for some of these differences by drawing on a long-term field-work experience. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Alert Bay Infocentre n.d. Discover Yourself in Our World...