... considers Esparragosa's report on Aguilar's sexual ambiguity and his efforts to classify her. The first section analyzes the scope and purpose of the report and places Esparragosa's anatomical and physiological assertions within the context of Enlightenment-era understandings of sexuality and sexual...

...Reniel Rodríguez Ramos Some of the early Spanish chronicles make reference to the presence of cave dwellers inhabiting the westernmost section of Cuba as well as the Guacayarima Peninsula in southwestern Haiti. These people, who supposedly lived marginal to Taino society, were named...

...Coll Thrush Offering an overview of the other four essays in this special section, this essay also opens up broader ground for consideration. It begins with the story of Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem who traveled to London in 1736 to present a land-rights petition to George II but who died...

... as well as on the identity of the author and of the priest whose arrival in Italy is the subject of the text. In the concluding section, I discuss some research lines that can be tackled on the basis of the Descrittione dell’India occidentale . The Descrittione dell’India occidentale chiamata il...

..., and powers of attorney for the women featured in this article. Their records described a cross-section of women participating in the civic work of their communities; identified cacicas , women of position in northern small towns (Jilotepec region) in the late colonial eighteenth-century; and showed...

... geográficas (RG) manuscripts. As a methodological intervention, the principal aim is to draw out the relatively understudied Indigenous knowledges and practices found throughout the corpus. The first section of the essay outlines the conceptual framework of technologies and contextualizes the RG survey...

...Kaitlyn Watson The book opens with an introduction from the editors as well as a copy of the “Christian Theological Statement.” There are another nineteen chapters divided into four sections. Section 1 provides context for Call to Action 6, including psychology research on corporal punishment...

... explore the complexities of sociocultural interactions over space and time within what was formerly called Rupert’s Land. Divided into six sections, the book’s material spans the early 1600s to 1870. Each section focuses on a particular theme, and section summaries describe how the chapters are linked...

... Dowd indicated that even though the library has only made a facsimile of the Popol Wuj narrative available in the circulation section of the library, there are plans to make a facsimile of the other sections as well. 14 Dowd graciously allowed me full access to the entire report on 7 January 2014...

...Traci Ardren American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Special Review Essay Section: The Current State of Maya Studies Everything Old Is New Again Traci Ardren, University of Miami The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction. Edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell...

... and ethnographic exploration of k’u’x (14–19, 76–77). While the term literally translates to “heart,” it is used throughout the Maya area to refer to both soul and spirit. The remainder of the first section describes Comalapa’s geographical and human landscape. Those already familiar with Guatemalan history...

... sections, “body” and “mind,” each examining two main religious groups found among the K’iche’ of Xecul. After an initial contextual chapter on Xecul, the first section presents the beliefs and practices of, on the one hand, Maya daykeepers and confraternities and, on the other hand, charismatic forms...

... to vastly different cosmological frameworks, represents a leitmotif of the colonial history of the Western Hemisphere Ethnohistory 51:2 (spring 2004) Copyright © by the American Society for Ethnohistory. 422 Special Review Essay Section as well a challenge...

... the archaeological, most of the essays also make use of linguistic analysis, archival research, and ethnographic analogy to understand wak’as. The book contains three main sections: contemporary examples, wak’as in the time of the Inkas, and wak’as in the pre-Inka past. So what is a wak’a? They are places...

... (numbered from −1 to 7 in accordance with Nelson’s efforts to disrupt naturalized Western notions of counting); it is best conceptually approached through the broader organization of its four major sections. Part 1 sets up the ethnographic and political context of post-genocidal Guatemala, a place and time...

... narrative. Following these summaries are sections with English translations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Vilcabamba documents. A perennial challenge in introducing undergraduates (and attracting future specialists) to Andean ethnohistory is the amount of critical material in Spanish...

... Special Review Essay Section Press, 2001. x + 310 pp., introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, illustrations. $45.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.) Resurgimiento Maya en Guatemala: Experiencias Q’eqchi’es. By Richard Wilson. Translated by Carlos Díez Rojo. (Antigua, Guatemala, and South...

...- tural complex was Woodland. The publication of Being Dakota makes available an unfinished Oneroad-Skinner manuscript in the Braun Library at the Southwest Mu- seum in Los Angeles. The first section, ‘‘Traditions and Customs is an elaboration of Skinner’s 1919 inventory of culture traits...