... 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 in graduate and undergraduate history, ethnohistory, and regional studies courses...

... 826 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...

...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 to their...

...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...

...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 by the...

...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...

... introduction Michael Harkin and David Lewis, noting the unexpected controversy the symposium generated, point to the ambiguity in Kretch’s book. It consciously uses “ecology” in three distinct senses, while Krech says the title The Ecological Indian is partly ironic. The text of...

... alphabetic text, including many illustrations drawn by Nahua artists. The twelfth and final book treats the Spanish-led war on Mexico-Tenochtitlan. This book is by far the most extensive indigenous account of that war, or any other war between Native American and European peoples, for that matter. This essay...

... 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...

...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...

...Carolyn R. Anderson 2005 Review Essay Recent Dakota Texts Carolyn R. Anderson, St. Olaf College Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton.By Amos E. Oneroad and Alanson B. Skinner. Edited by Laura L. Ander- son. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society...

... 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...

...Thomas H. Guthrie Chief Joseph, who gained fame during the Nez Perce War of 1877, is one of the best-known Indian orators in American history. Yet the two principal texts attributed to him were produced under questionable circumstances, and it is unclear to what extent they represent anything he...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...

... commend Burkhart’s 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...

... Sapir’s second, and last, field trip to Vancouver Island in 1914, their correspondence began to include interlinear texts and drawings. Through close analysis of Sapir’s correspondence with Alex 4 and my ongoing ethnographic work with Alex’s grandson, Walter Sayach’apis Thomas, I use this paper to...

...Davide Domenici Summary This article discusses the Descrittione dell’India occidentale , a neglected Italian sixteenth-century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought from Mexico to Italy by an anonymous priest. The text contains data on Mesoamerican...