... thought. First Nations women work “to reconcile the numerous disconnects between their holistic world view and the West- ern world view” by drawing upon their roles as guardians of indigenous traditions and as mediators and agents of change (1). Although the authors acknowledge the legacy...

...Matthew Redinger 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse . By Restall Matthew and Solari Amara . ( Baltimore : Rowman , 2011 . xi + 146 pp., figures, introduction, sources, suggested readings, index . $16.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013...

...Jonathan Hancock An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early America . By Witgen Michael . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . vi + 450 pp., prologue, epilogue, glossary, notes, index, acknowledgments . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2013...

... . The Fog of Violence in Latin America: Structured Disorder in a Neoliberal World James H. McDonald, Southern Utah University Violent Democracies in Latin America. Edited by Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 324 pp., acknowledgments...

...J. Frederick Fausz From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 . By Ethridge Robbie . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . xii + 344 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, maps...

...Christopher L. Miller Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee : U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792–1859 . By Whaley Gray H. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . ix + 296 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations...

...Justyna Olko This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data...

...Robert C. Schwaller Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500–1900 . By Sluyter Andrew . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 . xii + 308 pp., preface, notes, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

... 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...

...Neil Safier By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 450 pp., introduction, figures, plates,bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) 2004 Gerbi, Antonello 1973 The Dispute of the New World; The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900 . Pittsburgh...

... and excellent contribution to the ethnographic literature on Southeast Alaska Natives and on modern religious and cultural movements among indigenous peoples in general. The Problem of Justice: Tradition and Law in the Coast Salish World. By Bruce Miller. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv...

... and perspectives in a modern world. In part, Goulet rounds out Kelm’s study, where Western and indigenous medicines have become complementary, as have traditional prayer with Roman Catholicism and traditional social control...

..., illustrations, index.) 2000 Book Reviews Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbar- ton Oaks, nd through th October Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins. (Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, vii + pp...

...Kris Lane By Ward Stavig. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxxiv + 348 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.) 2000 Book Reviews The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community...

...Kenneth J. Andrien By Matthew Restall. (Stanford, : Stanford University Press,1997. xiv + 441 pp., preface, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography,index. $75.00 cloth). 2000 Book Reviews The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society...

... Book Reviews The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World En- counter. By Pedro de Cieza de León. Edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. (Durham, Duke University Press, xviii + pp., prologue, introduction, maps, illustrations, notes...

... and Peace in Roman North Africa by D. J. Mattingly). Try as hard as the editors might to distance themselves from a Euro-centered world systems perspective, causality in the many contact zones documented by the contributors stems of course from the state agents. Yet it is significant that the chapters...

... properly be characterized as several ‘‘intermediate chiefdoms While the eighteenth- century Choctaw social order surely comprised elements of social and cul- tural conventions from an earlier time, the larger world in which...

...John F. Schwaller Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Review Essays Comparative New-World Evangelization in Perspective John F. Schwaller, The State University of New York at Potsdam Why Have You Come Here? The Jesuits and the First Evangelization...