...León García Garagarza The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies . By Bassett Molly H. . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014 . xii + 283 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2016 by American Society...

... relations in Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century. American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 ‘‘But Now Things Have Changed Marius Barbeau and the Politics of Amerindian Identity Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University Abstract. This essay examines Marius Barbeau’s early...

... the on- slaught of colonialism. Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American His- tory. By James Lockhart. (Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiv + 397 pp., preface, appendix, bibliography...

..., California—this essay high-lights the basket business of a Pasadena dealer named Grace Nicholson. The study of material things has long been a vital part of ethnohistory, especially for understanding the influence of colonial commerce on indigenous societies. When applied to the movement of baskets and other...

... it is none of those things; (2) in ethnohistory especially, chronological time disconnected from other types and dimensions of time; (3) one type of time in cultural contact, such as clock time or work-discipline, to the exclusion of others; or (4) simple binaries of cultural difference (e.g., linear versus...

...Chris Ballard Christian notions of the Apocalypse, which were first introduced to Huli speakers of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea during the 1950s,encountered an existing indigenous eschatology, or doctrine of last things. Precontact Huli cosmology posited a moral constitution...

... enormous difficulties in supplying the urban market of Chilapa with basic resources,especially maize. The hostilities of the 1840s grew out of the efforts of elites to resolve these problems by establishing, among other things,commercial agricultural estates. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003...

... of the Florentine Codex, devoted to “earthly things,” this analysis re-entangles hummingbird ethology with Huitzilopochtli’s cult, a bond that was severed in the early days of colonization. A close reading of the Nahuatl, Spanish, and visual texts in this book reveals that seasonal cycles and hummingbird behavior...

...Juan Luis Rodríguez; Jonathan D. Hill The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood . Edited by Santos-Granero Fernando . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2009 . 277 pp., introduction, figures, tables, index . $55.00 cloth...

...- tieth century, those peoples left standing by the capitalist juggernaut got ‘‘cultureeven as advanced anthropologists were denying there was such a thing. This new culture consciousness of the peoples involved something more than defensiveness. Many were seen to be actively indigenizing the global...

... unifying life force that flowed in and through all things—the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals—and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred and brought together by the same Great Mystery. Kinship with all creatures...

... is essential to the con- cept of barbarism. It is indeed difficult to define what a barbarian is, for his identity instead consists in the capacities, institutions, and possessions that he is deemed to lack, according to another person who has them. These things are, above all, reason, political life...

... heart and in this way, things turn out well. If you do what the healer says you will be well and the things you want to do will be good. This type of work will always continue. It (knowledge of the ceremonies) will not be lost because they will teach it again and it will grow. These two ceremonies...

... These are stories of how, after that dark time, things may finally be ‘‘coming around In this light they are stories of struggle, hope, and empowerment, and each makes an important contribution to understanding the renais- sance...

... not want people to think we were that kind of community that would do anything. Plus, Blacks felt uncomfortable with those truths also. They worked in hotels and motels, so that didn’t initiate many conversations about those kinds of things. They learned to live or pretend this really didn’t happen...

... Maurice Bloch, London School of Economics 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 297 of 384 This collection makes clear one thing: the old distinction between anthro- pology and history has by now completely disappeared. The subject matter...

... of the Things of New Spain. Vol. 1, Introductions and Indices . Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Berdan, Frances M., and Patricia Rieff Anawalt, eds. 1992 Codex Mendoza . Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press. Brading, David. A. 1991 The First America: The Spanish Monarchy...

.... –  Caltzintli (“little house,” the place where the tlateōchīhualli or blessed things are kept) – The tlahtoāni (ruler) or the wealthy must build a small house (oratory) where the divine things must be kept. – The spousal debt during Lent (detailed expiation). Sermon 10. Wednesday after the second...

... all agree that people are simultaneously the same and different: they have some things in common, but in other ways, culturally and individually, they differ from one another. Where we draw the line between sameness and difference is a point of contention, however, and therefore worth disentangling...

..., called the idol of the goldsmiths, which those of this guild used to honor & celebrate. They had another idol in the temple, made of cork, completely covered with turquoise mosaic & coral, which they called the counsel idol, because he gave them responses to the things they asked. Every...