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... Copyright 2020 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2020 Elizabeth Hill Boone, Professor, Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, Tulane University. Elizabeth Hill Boone has, for several decades, been among the leading voices in the study of Indigenous arts and culture...