...Jennifer Siegler Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture . By Elizabeth Morán . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . vii+142 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2019...

... from Alice Marriott and James Mooney’s field notes and Kracht’s own fieldwork. The book addresses Kiowa belief and ritual in general, while focusing on major prereservation (pre-1875) religious forms (Sun Dance, tribal bundles, sweat lodge, vision quest, shield societies, and medico-religious practices...

... The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Prac- tice. By Raymond A. Bucko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. vii+336 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth, $14.96 paper...

... to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women’s perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evidence is contained in the eighteenth-century collection of healing chants known as the “ritual of the bacabs...

... and Flexibility in the Spanish Imperial Bureau- cracy Administrative Science Quarterly 5 (1960): 47–65; Phelan, The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century: Bureaucratic Politics in the Spanish Empire (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967). K’axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient...

...John F. Schwaller The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture. By Sigal Pete . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xvi + 361 pp., preface, illustrations, appendix, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper...

... was white, he was denied tribal membership and had to be ritually adopted into a clan known by outsiders as the Seneca Bear Clan (65). Parker’s resentment at this exclusion hardened his views on matrilineal descent and led him to write that ‘‘only animals, slaves, and someIndianstaketheirdescent from...

...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...

...Matthew Jennings Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual . By Meadows William . ( Norman : Civilization of the American Indian Series no. 263, University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . xx + 455 pp., preface, acknowledgments, pronunciation guide, introduction, illustrations...

...Helaine Silverman American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Cook, Anita G. 2001 Huari D-Shaped Structures,Sacrificial Offerings, and Divine Rulership. In Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook, eds. Pp. 137 -63. Austin: University of Texas Press...

..., anthropologists, and other Native American studies scholars interested in federal Indian law and the effects of legal and racial discourses on indigenous communities. Book Reviews 675 Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination...

...Pier M. Larson This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From...

... claims of discovery and possession in this region represented the rhetoric of empire rather than a genuine expansion of political sovereignty. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 The Rituals of Possession: Native Identity and the Invention of Empire in Seventeenth-Century Western North...

...Nicola Sharratt Rituals of the Past: Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology . Edited by Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista ( Boulder : University of Colorado Press , 2017 . xi +321 pp., figures, tables, list of contributors, index. $81.00...

...Matthew Restall On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma’s Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals . By Hajovsky Patrick Thomas . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . xii+194 pp., preface, color and black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index . $125.00 cloth, $45.00 paper...

... The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Prac- tice. By Raymond A. Bucko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. vii+336 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth, $14.96 paper...

...Timothy W. Knowlton Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul . By Andrew K. Scherer . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . xiv +291 pp., introduction, maps, color and black-and-white photographs, black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, index...

...Figure 6. Ritual “anointing” of children on pages 92c–93c of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Plates XX-XXI), courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC. ...