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...Claudio Saunt In November 1775, Kumeyaay Indians attacked and destroyed Mission San Diego, at the foot of Alta California. In the wake of that event, Spanish officials interrogated and tortured Indians to gather intelligence. While historians have recounted the uprising's origins and aftermath...

... of anthropology, comparing and connecting ethnographic methods to torture and pornography. Neil in many senses has left his most indelible imprint with his edited collections and collaborations with other scholars, musicians, and cultural actors, often opening up new avenues for research and provocative...

... sex with other men. While Fran- cisco Capiche was eventually caught and tried for the pecado nefando, Miguel from Cuisco was never found or mentioned again. At first Capiche flatly denied any sexual involvement with Quini, but once the instruments of torture were introduced, Capiche admitted...

... bombs, on 5 July 2005 investigators from Guate- mala’s Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office discovered the National Police Archives, the existence of which national authorities had denied. Given the National Police’s central role in kidnapping, torturing, and executing alleged subversives during...

... reviews the expedition’s ‘‘vari- ous archival legacies, which provide a lasting trove of documentary evi- dence for analysis of the expedition’s results’’ (10). Sergei Kan recounts the tortured history of Lev Shternberg’s...

... Guate- mala’s Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office discovered the National Police Archives, the existence of which national authorities had denied. Given the National Police’s central role in kidnapping, torturing, and executing alleged subversives during the nation’s civil war (1960–96), the find...

... to overcome her own repug- nance at Aztec human sacrifice and render it intelligible and to com- prehend the fanatical Franciscan preacher, inquisitor, and torturer Diego de Landa Having succeeded in those endeavors, she here sets out to tackle a much greater challenge, what she calls the ‘‘Gorgon effect...

... of assault, killing, kidnapping (often involv- ing torture), theft, and probable rape. An estimated 178 instances of vio- lence are documented, and there were probably many more unreported. There is no evidence of an attack of Russian against Russian, although some of the attacks by the St. Nicholas...

...-Foster and Rachael Kangas Figure 6. Late Classic Maya rattle. ARTstor Images for Academic Publishing Program figure, it is interpreted as a tortured male captive hanging by the neck (Just 2014; Schele and Perez de Lara 1997: 114–15). This piece, like Mulchic, represents another instance...

... tortured a local chief, and learned that his men were killed because of their plundering of local villages (Molina 1968 : 86), and because the local chiefs from Guasco thought that they were bluffing about the arrival of Almagro forces (Mariño de Lobera [1575] 1865 : 29). Another version states...

.... 1993b “Torture in the Archives.” American Anthropologist 95 (1): 139 -52. Book Reviews Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries. By Sergei Kan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press,1999. xxxi + 665 pp., 26 illustrations, appendix, notes...

... enslaved and indigenous peoples throughout the Atlantic world (ibid.; Alonso 1995 ; Martínez 2004 ; Sharples 2015 ). During and after the Haitian Revolution, reports of the torture and mass assassination of white men and the possession of white female bodies took on important dimensions...

... of the towns The Birth of the Virgin with Saint Michael Mural at Tabí 721 where rebellious Maya leaders had been tortured and interrogated by Frey Diego del Landa (1524–79), head of the convent of Izamal, in June through August of 1562.13 Accounts also noted animal sacrifices “in the ancient man...

... that torture was applied in this case. The use or threat of torture was standard in verifying testimonies given by anyone suspected of having participated in raids. Usually the captive was laid down and tied to a board, silk straps were tightened around the muscles of the legs and arms and squeezed a little...

...: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Stuart, George 1988 Glyph Drawings from Landa'sRelación: A Caveat to the Investigator. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing 19 : 23 -32. Tedlock, Dennis 1993 Torture in the Archives: Mayans Meet Europeans...

... often endured exceptional cruelty (Hay 2005 : 7–9; see also Puddu 1984 : 54). Torture, although not unheard of, was legally restricted and generally implemented to obtain information or goods, to punish, or to dispirit, rather than to ultimately end the victim’s life (Mitchell 2005 : 101–8). Hence...

... cannibalism and fire torture, see Stueck 2012 (78, 81–84). Monsoni Sioux La Vérendrye Nêhiyawak biography In the last weeks of the summer of 1741, an expedition of two hundred Nêhiyaw, Monsoni, and Nakoda warriors invaded the pays des Sioux , or “Sioux Country,” the homeland of the eastern...

... and testified while shackled. Judicial torture, how- ever, although considered a legitimate procedural step available to Spanish officials, does not seem to have been used to extract testimony or confes- Tseng 2003.12.12 06:08 211...

... 497 a resulting ‘‘relaxation of the importance normally given to provenience so that, for example, the possible influences of Christianity in shaping colo- nial Maya accounts of pre-Conquest monotheism are not considered. Simi- larly, his ‘‘Torture in the Archives’’ (Tedlock 1993b) considers how...

... 497 a resulting ‘‘relaxation of the importance normally given to provenience so that, for example, the possible influences of Christianity in shaping colo- nial Maya accounts of pre-Conquest monotheism are not considered. Simi- larly, his ‘‘Torture in the Archives’’ (Tedlock 1993b) considers how...