..., and certainly van Akkeren’s insightful analysis and interdisciplinary methodology will further the study of highland Maya during the Postclassic period. From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International...

... Pacific. It un- derscores key themes of language, culture, and land/village loss (David Koester) in the post-Jesup era. Krauss criticizes the JNPE for not being more systematic in investigating the eighty or so languages existent at the time in the study area and calls for further research...

... and Underspelling in the Classic Maya Script: Impli- cations for Decipherment. MA thesis, University of Calgary. 442 Book Reviews The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. By Frank Salomon. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

... Maya Village. Edited by Patricia A. McAnany. (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2004. ix + 467 pp., preface, bibliography, glossary, index, CD. $65.00 cloth.) Traci Ardren, University of Miami With her most recent publication on Classic-period Maya village life, Patri- cia...

..., and such collaborations will strengthen the field of ethnohistory. In this way she worked while helping her parents, sometimes she gave them a lot and sometimes she gave them a little money. Though afterwards, no one in the village wanted to give the father of the woman any work. They said, why do you want to work when...

...Sarahh Scher The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing. By Salomon Frank and Niño-Murcia Mercedes . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xiv + 368 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, notes, references, index . $25.95 paper.) Copyright 2013...

... also took place. This article examines the Wabash River valley trade and shows how two Indian villages, Kethtippecanuck and Miamitown, dominated the exchange process. Economics and sociability were intertwined in this flourishing region. Trade took place between friends and relatives, defined...

...Sean S. Downey This study reconstructs the settlement history for twelve related Q'eqchi' Maya villages in the Toledo District of southern Belize using oral history interviews, archival records, and the Catholic parish birth register. The study evaluates two hypotheses for explaining the identified...

..., at all matches local paradigms. Second, it compares academia's “own”way of getting at colonial and postcolonial historical problems with the unofficial paleography (and archaeology) through which villagers explore the same. In Huarochirí Province (Peru), popular ethnohistory serves not to reify...

...Murdo J. MacLeod While Indian village lands held in common have received some attention there is little knowledge of lands held by Indian individuals, or by groups within Indian society, such as confraternities. The purpose of this article is to examine these little-known landholdings and to assess...

...Jodie A. O'Gorman In a 1969 Ethnohistory article James Fitting and Charles Cleland developed an ethnographic model derived from the Potawatomi Pattern of large, semipermanent villages with an emphasis on corn agriculture to interpret earlier cultural adaptations within the Carolinian biotic...

...Figure 4. Arikara section of Like-A-Fishhook Village, ca. 1870. Courtesy of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, A3854 ...

... of a distinct African Jamaican society. The rigidly de.ned linear housing arrangements initially established by the planter, and their relations to the Great House, sugar works, and .elds, were reinterpreted by the enslaved residents of the village to create a degree of autonomy and freedom from constant...

... coherence and continuity amid severe political upheaval. Data gathering combined oral accounts for a period of about 120 years and the elicitation and reconstruction of genealogies in the migrating history of villages for as long as 230 years of Ye'kuana history. What makes this analysis different from...