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Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader

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Cynthia Radding
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 130–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816292
Published: 01 January 2013
...Cynthia Radding Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader . Edited by Dym Jordana and Offen Karl . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . xix + 338 pp., foreword, introduction, maps, illustrations, index . $39.00 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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Christine Mathias
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 388–390.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2414325
Published: 01 April 2014
...Christine Mathias The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics . Edited by Lambert Peter and Nickson Andrew . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xii + 475 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, epilogue, suggestions for further reading, acknowledgment...
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The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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Heather Vrana
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 201–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135610
Published: 01 January 2016
...Heather Vrana The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics . Edited by Grandin Greg , Levenson Deborah T. , and Oglesby Elizabeth . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xxiii + 663 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, color plates, bibliography, index...
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“This Book Is Your Book”: Jesuit Editorial Policy and Individual Indigenous Reading in Eighteenth-Century Paraguay

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Capucine Boidin, Leonardo Cerno, Fabián R. Vega
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 247–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025304
Published: 01 April 2020
... warnings to readers reveal that it follows the structure of Ignacio de Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises . The authors of this article demonstrate that by the mid-eighteenth century, the Jesuit project was to produce an indigenous reader and devotee in the modern sense (individual reading and personal...
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The Pragmatics of Language Learning: Graphic Pluralism on Martha's Vineyard, 1660-1720

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Kathleen J. Bragdon
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 35–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-052
Published: 01 January 2010
.... The diaspora of native readers and writers, the production of native documents, and their curation within certain families also demonstrate the way native people made vernacular literacy their own. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Banks, Charles Edward 1966 The History of Martha's Vineyard...
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Reflections on What Writing Means, Beyond What It “Says”: The Political Economy and Semiotics of Graphic Pluralism in the Americas

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Margaret Bender
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 175–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-059
Published: 01 January 2010
..., and consumption) reveal and enact social relationships and inequalities. The author reminds readers that to fully explore the rich implications of the graphic, scholars must expand their investigations beyond writing's capacity to represent spoken language and also investigate the iconic and indexical dimensions...
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Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovisión

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Rafael C. Alvarado, Aldo Ismael Barriente, Allison Margaret Bigelow
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 493–518.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9157219
Published: 01 October 2021
... structure that could not be detected by Spanish readers. Each edition of the Popol Wuj therefore helps to uncover different elements of the cosmovisión that is embedded in the text. This article draws from recent collaborative efforts to prepare a digital critical edition of the Popol Wuj based...
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Fashioning the Soul in Colonial Río de la Plata: Religious Education in the Guaraní Missions, 1609–1768

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Kristin Huffine
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 429–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9881233
Published: 01 October 2022
... as more limited forms of devotional training among Guaraní Indians. The book was translated for a growing population of elite Indigenous readers and for public readings among Indians without preparation in literacy in the missions. Introducing mission residents to the practice of spiritual exercises...
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

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James L. Hill
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 551–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9157291
Published: 01 October 2021
...James L. Hill Deeply researched, richly detailed, and persuasively argued, The Indian World of George Washington is the rare work that should appeal to academics and readers of so-called popular history alike. Most notably, it may just help bring the insights of countless ethnohistorians...
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

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Julie Anne Sweet
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 515–516.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266490
Published: 01 July 2020
....) Copyright 2020 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2020 While the title includes the word Thanksgiving , David J. Silverman primarily uses that term as a hook to reel the reader into a study of New England’s Wampanoag Indians. Most of the book focuses on what happened after that legendary event...
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At Home with the Sapa Inka: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Sarahh Scher
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 324–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3789369
Published: 01 April 2017
... of a single ruler’s life history and political machinations. Izumi Shimada’s edited volume, in contrast, aims for a holistic view of the Inka that spans the breadth and temporal depth of the empire. At Home with the Sapa Inka is divided into seven main chapters, which lead the reader through the site...
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We Will Always Be Here: Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South

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Jay Precht
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 543–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4174392
Published: 01 October 2017
... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017 In We Will Always Be Here , historian Denise E. Bates gives readers the opportunity to hear directly from Native peoples living in the South. Although modeled on similar collections with a national scope, this volume fills a gap left by often “sparse...
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Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain

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Julie Anne Sweet
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 671–672.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-6991361
Published: 01 October 2018
... to this time period and provides a detailed portrayal of both man and empire, but some readers may not appreciate the depth and volume of the peripheral and occasionally tangential material included here. Shannon divides his book into two logical sections, the first covering Williamson’s years in America...
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Maya Lords and Lordships: The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600

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Mark Christensen
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 195–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135562
Published: 01 January 2016
... in 1993. Twenty-one years later Quezada offers English readers a trans- lated, revised version of his original dissertation with his Maya Lords and Lordships. Quezada states that the book’s originality primarily lies in its argument that “the batab (at diverse times also called cacique, or lord...
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Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation

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Peggy Goede Montalván
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 207–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135658
Published: 01 January 2016
... on colors. The articles normally start with a citation from written sources and include individual examples of people’s lives, which makes the reader’s mind jump directly into the colonial period. Each article contains notes and helpful suggestions for further reading. Despite the title of the book...
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Bending Their Way Onward: Creek Indian Removal in Documents

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Sheri Shuck-Hall
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 201–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7217564
Published: 01 January 2019
... this grueling time. Readers will encounter the Americans’ biased perspective toward Creeks, yet ethnohistorians will nonetheless find the collection valuable; the documents reveal important evidence to discerning readers. Haveman captures the day-to-day trials of Creek men, women, and children. Cases...
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Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School

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Crystal Gail Fraser
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 139–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10888097
Published: 01 January 2024
.... $24.95 paperback.) Copyright 2024 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2024 Indian residential schooling histories need to centralize the voices of Survivors and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, and Did You See Us? will not disappoint readers. In this beautiful collection of stories, we learn...
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Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice

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Daniel M. Cobb
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 177–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3135402
Published: 01 January 2016
... and that make the book so special. Over six superiorly conceptualized and crafted chapters, she takes readers inside the logic of settler colonialism in South Puget Sound, the political and cultural construction of law and justice within Nisqually and settler communities, the complex process...
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Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England

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Rob Harper
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 319–320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025376
Published: 01 April 2020
... the most of a sparse documentary record, Pulsipher immerses the reader in Wompas and Prask’s world, and in the process presents familiar events from new perspectives. Rather than reviewing how coastal Wampanoags discovered English separatists at Plymouth, the reader faces east from the inland rivers...
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Recent Works in North American Biography and Ethnography

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Jill Doerfler
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 331–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-066
Published: 01 April 2008
... it provides a wealth of context and personal information, which will finally allow readers to fully comprehend Warren’s work. In Native American Life Histories, Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez cri- tiques the training, techniques, and texts of past ethnographers, includ- ing Walter Dyk...
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