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...Susan J. Wurtzburg Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast. By Michelene E. Pesantubbee. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xi + 208 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.95 paper.) American...

...Meri L. Clark Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xii + 445 pp., introduction, bibliographies, index. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Peter N. Peregrine Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Iñupiaq Eskimos. By Ernest S. Burch Jr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xiii + 383 pp., preface, orthography, introduction, illustrations, appendixes, notes, references, index. $29.95 paper.) American Society...

...Leo J. Garofalo Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. By Irene Silverblatt. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 299 pp., about the series, acknowledgments, prologue, afterword, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper.) American...

... published in full color. For now, they can be found alongside the superb ethnohistory that is Manteo’s World . Two specific evidentiary fragments relevant to this issue are not found in Manteo’s World . First, the sole documented instance of a Carolinian Algonquian elite commanding violence against...

... and are an unparalleled resource of theory and data. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of ‘‘18- Rabbit-God K King of Copan. By Elizabeth A. Newsome. (Austin: Uni- versity of Texas Press...

... los Indios, structured the thinking of those who colonized the New World. These rep- resentations and texts had material effects—they led people to behave in demeaning and violent ways toward indigenous peoples. ‘‘Colonial pro- grams, representations, and theories do things: they formulate speech...

...Autumn Quezada de Tavarez The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World . By David Kazanjian . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . 336 pp., introduction, images, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $26.95 paperback.) Copyright...

... partisans to think again. Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic World . By Antonio Feros . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 . 367 pp., maps, bibliography, index . $45 cloth.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018...

.... The role of the technopelli is to carry and exchange stories, as if they were seeds. This book of seeds, tools, and stories celebrates the Kichwa saying “makika rurakun, shimaka rimakun” (the hands make and the mouth talks), which means that one should engage with the world with one’s whole being...

...’ specific histories. Though Grillot presents a thoroughly well-researched account of the years immediately following World War I, the Indian New Deal and termination are addressed only briefly in one chapter. Especially because he draws attention to how in their opposition to John Collier a vocal minority...

...Robert Wasserstrom Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer . By Fernando Santos-Granero . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . 285 pp., contents, illustrations, acknowledgments, prologue, epilogue, glossary, notes, references, index. $29.95...

...María Nieves Zedeño Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet . By Rosalyn R. LaPier . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2017 . xliii +195 pp., acknowledgments, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 hardcover...

... of the natural world, philosophy and religion, society and economics, and artistic practice. This special issue brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including art history, history, and biology, to promote discussion among the arts, social sciences, and natural sciences on the study...

... Christian and native thought on world time and portents of doom, or citing figurative “signs” of ancestral tradition that speak to the theme of divine judgment. Such passages, this article demonstrates, suggest Nahua co-authorship. Copyright 2021 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2021 New Spain...

..., and in the conduct of war—an eminently collective level. Winged hunters of the night, owls occupy a prominent place in the religious traditions of the world and are often characterized as the archetypal symbol of death. It is in this guise that this bird has historically enjoyed a particularly powerful role...

... of the Wayeb’ marks the end of one world and the rebirth of the next world, where the B’akab’ reign, compellingly arguing that this annual period of chaos, indeterminacy, and destruction gives rise to order, rebirth, and renewal that can be seen as Tz’utujil people perform Holy Week...

...James L. Hill Deeply researched, richly detailed, and persuasively argued, The Indian World of George Washington is the rare work that should appeal to academics and readers of so-called popular history alike. Most notably, it may just help bring the insights of countless ethnohistorians...

...Christopher Marsh [email protected] Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877 . By Ryan Hall . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 272 pp., 20 halftones, 4 maps. $29.95 paperback.). Copyright 2022...