... that the Cristero War (1926–29) was a Mexican rebellion contained primarily within the country’s west-central heartland. Instead, following Mexican emigrants and religious refugees across the border to communities in the United States, Young demonstrates that the Crisitiada had an enduring and formative...

... in Uganda. Currently, more than 60 percent of Ngturkana in Kenya live outside Turkan, while increasing numbers of other migrants enter the district, with the latest entrants being refugees from more than eight other African countries. The immigration is beginning to disastrously alter the arid environment...

... States, and, for some, their eventual return to Guatemala. The book contributes to the corpus of ethnographic literature on refu- gees and state violence, but Montejo’s perspective distinguishes the book from other ethnographic accounts of refugees. A Maya from Jacaltenango, Guatemala, Montejo...

....” In Fit for War , Mary Elizabeth Fitts analyzes the development and maintenance of the mid-eighteenth-century Catawba Nation’s collective identity, concentrating on the Catawba twin town of Nassaw-Weyapee and the refugee town of Charraw. Her central question is how Catawba refugee incorporation...

... monarchies of southwestern Madagascar, the term folohazomanga designated ‘‘captives 8 ‘‘refugees and ‘‘slaves Writing of the Menarandra kingdom, the south- ernmost of these monarchies...

... and colonialism. For a broader application, this collection reveals the methods many refugee Native groups used to form new social identities in new locations. As an interdisciplinary effort, this volume successfully combines the disciplines of archaeology and history to clearly explicate the lessons learnable...

... “intruders” and black freedmen “refugees” claimed to be Cherokees—some honestly, some fraudulently—they also demanded a part of the nation’s resources. Officials in the Cherokee Nation now tried to establish an official Cherokee identity and citizenry. But place and race came to play a much greater role...

... of innovation went the other way” (155). Such innovations were most pronounced in the ways that captives shaped ethnogenesis—the process of creating new collectivities. In the case of coalescent societies that incorporated large numbers of refugees as social subordinates—for example, in the American Southeast...

... from London to Kolkata to Tokyo and, perhaps most astonishingly, in Nazi Germany, where the Moe family both performed for an admiring Adolf Hitler and helped to smuggle refugees out of the country. John W. Troutman’s new book is a history of global cultural transformation and appropriation centered...

..., where they lived as Mexican refugees whose indigeneity was constantly questioned. The Hopis remained isolated, while the O’odham saw the collapse of their missions and increased Apache raids. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that brought the region into the United States allowed for all Mexican...

... at the multiethnic village that the French called La Pointe, and he situated the Ottawa and Huron in this community as refugees who came to the village seasonally to harvest fish and corn. Dablon also wrote that “it will be easy to recognize the rivers and routes leading to various nations, either station...

... praising the Prophet Muhammad. Guitar Performances: Texts and Contexts Early Ichumar and Their Guitar Music: Rebel Fighters and Refugees Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many alienated, unemployed youths acquired a political outlook, but they also became interested in language, literature, poetry...

..., anthropologists, among others, have turned to issues of human rights, political refugees, and genocide. Since the late 1970s, coinciding with increasing difficulties in conducting anthropologi- cal fieldwork in the war-torn areas, a number of (ethno)historical studies concentrating on the cultural dynamics...

.... In the midst of the worst violence in the 1980s, Maras began to flow back and forth from Los Angeles; Guatemala City had become a chaotic refugee camp followed by a postwar neoliberal state that abandons and demonizes poor, urban youth as delicuentes (delinquents) as top cover for state repression...

... 269 claiming that the label ‘‘Mikea’’ originated with the flight of refugees from the slave trade into the forest. With the proper vocal inflection ‘‘meky hea’’ (to want to be pursued) becomes emphatically negated to mean...

... sponsored by English and French colonists. 8 Slavers took prisoners from among American Indian populations, leading to their decline. At the same time, some of the refugees fleeing the resultant chaos sought the protection of the more powerful indigenous groups, thereby adding to their numbers...

...–1815 (1991). DuVal argues convincingly that the tribes of the Arkansas Valley were not the broken refugee communities that White identified in the Great Lakes region, and therefore did not need to accommodate whites to the same degree. These larger, more cohesive tribes “preferred...

...–1815 (1991). DuVal argues convincingly that the tribes of the Arkansas Valley were not the broken refugee communities that White identified in the Great Lakes region, and therefore did not need to accommodate whites to the same degree. These larger, more cohesive tribes “preferred...

...–1815 (1991). DuVal argues convincingly that the tribes of the Arkansas Valley were not the broken refugee communities that White identified in the Great Lakes region, and therefore did not need to accommodate whites to the same degree. These larger, more cohesive tribes “preferred...

... Review Essays 1 the nation’s leadership of the worldwide Protestant cause. Many English and most of the refugees who came to the British Isles from the Conti...