...Bas van Doesburg; Michael W. Swanton This article is a diachronic investigation of a form of social organization of the Chochon (Xru Ngiwa, Chocholtec), a Mesoamerican people. Specifically, it is a philological examination of one form of a customary community subdivision, usually called sindi...

...Dianne van Oosterhout The approaching millennium is a primary concern of the Inanwatan population. It is believed to herald a period of involution rather than an abrupt ending. The year 2000 is seen as bringing a new world order by restoring a mythical past and returning life-generating powers...

...Bas van Doesburg This article analyzes the complex and sometimes deceiving relationship that might exist between the pictographic text and toponymic glosses in Oaxacan screenfolds from the sixteenth century. The case of the Codex Porfirio Díaz shows that these glosses represent not only boundaries...

...Eric Van Young American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Barrett, Ward 1979 The Efficient Plantation and the Inefficient Hacienda . James Ford Bell Lecture, University of Minnesota. Bonnell, Victoria S., and Lynn Hunt, eds. 1999 Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study...

...Nancy E. van Deusen “Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous ‘Servitude’ in the Sixteenth Century” examines the circumstances of three indigenous criados (servants)—Pedro, Juan, and Francisco Manuel—with direct or indirect ties of patronage to the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. As nonelite...

...Nancy E. van Deusen Abstract This article is a call to render the rare modicums, odd classifications, and normalization of indigenous slave practices in documents legible and then magnify them and connect them to broader considerations of slavery. Statistical anomalies and unusual stories found...

...David Carey, Jr. By Ruud van Akkeren. (Leiden: Research School , 2000. 555 pp., introduction, maps, plans, illustrations, tables, appendix, bibliography.$40.00 paper.) 2002 Book Reviews...

..., Nicho- laes van Wassenaer, the Dutch physician and pamphleteer, described where some of the Indians arriving at Fort Orange had come from: ‘‘In the interior 730 William A. Starna and José António Branda˜o are also many, as the Maquas. Full fifty leagues higher are found...

...Robert Wasserstrom Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932 . By Van Valen Gary . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2013 . 250 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth...

...Brian P. Owensby Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain . By van Deusen Nancy E. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . xvi+352 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $26.95 paper...

...Daniel R. Mandell Declared Defective superbly sleuths out the history of the Van Guilders and their lifeways in order to critique the research and assumptions of American eugenicists. It does have some shortcomings. Jarvenpa seems to assume that farmers aimed for self-sufficiency rather than...

... as a body or individually for topics in Mesoamerican history, culture, society, and linguistics. Place of the Lord’s Daughter: Rab’inal, its history, its dance-drama. By Ruud van Akkeren. (Leiden: Research School pp...

... place on these two events is discussed in that light, with the Iban viewing their colonial experience as the struggle of spiritual forces allied with both the Iban and the European. American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Anonymous 1902 Een Expeditie tegen de Dajaks van uit Serawak. De...

.... One reason for this was that the production of the beads was labor extensive13 and complicated.14 Cornelis van Tienhoven, successor of de Rasiere, therefore had to state in a letter of 22 February 1650 dealing with the rearrangement of the bor- ders between New Netherland and the British...

...Edward W. Osowski Scholars have yet to understand well the role of indigenous people in Mexican independence. In her question-provoking new study of several Metepec altepetl in the Toluca Valley, Miriam Melton-Villanueva starts with Eric Van Young’s view that the Nahua kept themselves...

... Michaud 1997 A Contribution to the Study of Hmong Miao Migrations and History. Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde (bki) 153-2 : 211 -42. Dang Nghiam Van 1989 Nhung van de xahoi hien nay o Tay Nguyen [Current Social Problems in Tai Nguyen]. In Tay Nguyen tren duong phat trien . Hanoi...

... (no number) : 163 – 233 . Van de Guchte Maarten J. D. 1990 “Carving the World”: Inca Monumental Sculpture and Landscape . PhD diss. , University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign . 1996 Sculpture and the Concept of the Double among the Inca Kings . RES 29/30 : 256 – 68 . 1999...

... materials, it will appeal to novices and seasoned scholars interested in the political machinations of pre-Columbian to colonial-period Mexico. Other sections include an important analysis of ten sixteenth-century glosses by linguist Michael Swanton and van Doesburg. They determine that the language...

... The Ethnography of Reading . Berkeley: University of California Press. Bruinessen, Martin van 1990 The Origins and Development of the Naqshabandi Order in Indonesia. Der Islam 67 : 150 -79. 1991 The Tariqa Khalwatiyya in South Celebes.In Excursies in Celebes . Harry A. Poeze and Pim Schoorl, eds. Pp...