...Manuella Meyer Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847–1924 . By McCrea Heather . ( Albuquerque : University of Mexico Press , 2011 . 288 pp., acknowledgments, afterword, illustrations, map, bibliography, index . $27.95 paper...

...C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846–1873 . By Lindsay Brendan C. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . xv + 436 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, tables, bibliography, index . $70.00 cloth.) Copyright 2013...

...Leslie Offutt Negotiation within Domination: New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State . Edited by Medrano Ethelia Ruiz and Kellogg Susan . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2011 . xvii + 264 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, tables, bibliography...

... of contemporary obstacles to tribal natural resource management in the Cherokee Nation, emphasizing the process of environmental production to explain how myriad actors and forces shaped the western Cherokee landscape. Additionally, I frame tribal resource control and management as an identifiable modern state...

... with a unique insight into the life and society of colonial Latin America. Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State. By Natividad Gutiérrez. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska...

...., illustrations, abbreviations, introduction, notes, glossary, bibliog- raphy, index. $21.95 paper.) Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expan- sion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988. By Seth...

... tions and passions that the study of indigenes and state policy in Brazil can generate. Both books suggest that neither the topic nor the reality of such relations will disappear soon. Note...

...Shepard Krech, III By Paul Nadasdy. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. 312 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.) 2005 Book Reviews Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Rela- tions in the Southwest...

... believed that Indians had agreed to learn the tenets of Franciscan Catholicism and live in a state of ‘‘spiritual debt peonage Book Reviews 647 As the Franciscans considered it, ‘‘Once baptized the Indian was free to be a Christian bound to the mission...

...Michel R. Oudijk Cultural Politics in Colonial Tehuantepec: Community and State among the Isthmus Zapotec, 1500-1750. By Judith Francis Zeitlin. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. xix + 323 pp., preface, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth.) American Society...

...Jordana Dym Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. By Raymond B. Craib. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xviii + 300 pp., introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007...

... of the quahog clam. John- son’s translations could clearly be misleading, as another example from the section on wampum demonstrates. Noting the importance of wampum to the fur trade, Johnson’s version states that “many thousand strings are exchanged every year for peltries near the seashores...

...Jean Michaud This article provides an overview of the recent interactions between the highlanders of northern Vietnamand the successive powers that controlled the state between 1802 and 1975: Imperial Vietnam until 1883, the French colonial state until 1954, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...

... Diane M. Nelson is an evocative speaker, employing disconcertingly vivid metaphors while juxtaposing the comic with the deadly serious to illumi- nate the often surrealistic quality of Guatemalan state machinations...

... of colonizers from the United States who claimed Texas for themselves. Caught in the decades of warfare between the interlopers and the original peoples of the region, Chevato and his orphaned siblings were adopted by the Mescalero Apaches of southern New Mexico, the Lipans’ cultural cousins...

... as prevalent during the early twentieth century. Indeed, ethnic Mexicans throughout the United States generally and in Chi- cago particularly often reinforced racial hierarchies and the overall concept of pigmentocracy, which led not only to an unfriendly cultural community, but a segmented society...

...Tien-Ann Shih Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Review Essays Bolivia: Tracing the Roots of a Social Movement State Tien-Ann Shih, University of Chicago Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics. By Forrest Hylton and Sinclair...

...Michele M. Stephens Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture, Community, and the State . By Wortham Erica Cusi . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . xvii + 288 pp., preface, introduction, notes, references, index . $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2014 by American Society...

... the timing and nature of ethnic transformation among these populations, arguing that the key shift to a generic ladino identity occurred later than previously proposed. They also suggest the need for greater attention to the role of state formation in ethnic change, as the casta population described here...

...Rebecca Kugel Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country . By Denial Catherine J. . ( St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2013 . 191 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $19.95 paper...