...Allen J. Christenson The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan . By Mark Z. Christensen . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . xv + 321 pp., illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, conclusion, appendix, notes...

...David Tavárez Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 A Banned Sixteenth-Century­ Biblical Text in Nahuatl: The Proverbs of Solomon David Tavárez, Vassar College Between 1536 and the late sixteenth century, the Colegio de Santa Cruz, established...

...Jeffrey D. Anderson Beginning in the 1880s, the Northern Arapaho appropriated Christianity while maintaining core religious forms and tribal solidarity. Through retranslation of the Arapaho Our Father, it is possible to understand how Arapaho Catholics “converted” this text and other forms...

...Carolyn R. Anderson American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Representing the Lakota Past: Document, Text, Narrative Carolyn R. Anderson, St. Olaf College 6577 ETHNOHISTORY 49:1 / sheet 221 of 229...

... augmented by four useful maps and eight illustrations. Admirably, theory is well integrated into the narrative. This tends to stimulate comparison for the scholar as well as make A Gathering of Rivers a very good choice as a text...

... Book Reviews is radically antihistorical (as was most structuralism), insofar as the narra- tive strains he identifies are considered detachable from their original con- text and reshuffled for use in, say, ancient Greek or modern French theories of human origins. This is your ‘‘no escape’’ sort...

... the book over a fifteen-year period from 1550 to 1564. This article presents some preliminary findings on the interrelationship between the manuscript's pictorial and alphabetic texts as well as observations about its language. The findings are part of a forthcoming transcription, translation, and analysis...

...Amy George-Hirons When we consider questions of alphabetic, cultural, and visual literacy in colonial Mesoamerica, an analysis of the way in which the producers of the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua appropriated European astronomical texts and images from medieval reportorios demonstrates much about...

... to advance the notion of indigenous decline. 7 Using texts made by indigenous escribanos—a method that proved both complex and essential for this project—I build on the empirical challenge to Mexican history (and its methods) that began during the concurrent shift to social history by what is now called...

... : 67 – 80 . Sapir Edward . 1922 . Sayachapis: A Nootka Trader. In American Indian Life by Several of Its Students , edited by Parsons Elsie Clews . New York : Viking Press . Sapir Edward , and Swadesh Morris . 1939 . Nootka Texts; Tales and Ethnological Narratives...

... article. First, it is a compact, polished essay that examines numerous dense sixteenth-century Nahuatl-language texts, offering many transcriptions and translations of the original language. Second, she displays a firm command of the Old and New Testament, late medieval theology, and mendicant strategies...

... as a matter of texts. Not a set of doctrines or beliefs to be adopted, Islam inhered in its language, spoken and written. Uttering Arabic and possessing spiritually potent religious manuscripts were the dominant practices shaping Islam's spread, reception, and structure in early modern South Sulawesi...

... Dictionary of Nahuatl . Austin: University of Texas Press. Karttunen, Frances, and James Lockhart 1976 Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period . University of California Publications in Linguistics,No. 85. Berkeley: University of California Press...

..., appendix, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper.) Marvels and Miracles in Late Colonial Mexico: Three Texts in Context. By Taylor William B. . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2011 . ix + 149 pp., introduction, notes, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American...

...Brian Stross The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, The Codical Texts . By Macri Martha J. and Vail Gabrielle . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2009 . xii + 308 pp., acknowledgments, editorial note, introduction, abbreviations, catalog, appendixes, references...