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...W. George Lovell “The volume and variety of material available to scholars concerning the rebellion . . . . make a detailed study of its complexities possible and positively invite competing interpretations,” Gosner acknowledges (p. 12). Welcome though his contribution is, it will surprise...

...Kevin Gosner The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 . By Sophie Brockmann . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 267 pp. Cloth, $99.99...

...Kevin Gosner Desmond and Messenger make a persuasive case that the Le Plongeons merit a more respected place among early Mayanists. They leave the reader wishing, however, for a more expansive book. These were formative years in the history of Maya archaeology, and the larger intellectual...

...Kevin Gosner Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion: Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian . By Higgins Nicholas P. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2004 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 259 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $22.95...

...Kevin Gosner Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy . By Perera Victor . Photographs by Chauche Daniel . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . Photographs. Bibliography. Index . xv , 382 pp. Cloth . $27.00 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press...

...Kevin Gosner The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas . 2 vols. By Austin Alfredo López . Translated by de Montellano Thelma Ortiz and de Montellano Bernard Ortiz . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1988 . (Vol. I) Figures. Maps. Photographs...

...Kevin Gosner Anyone who studies native peoples from Spanish-language sources alone will feel sadly impoverished after reading this book. The remarkable detail, subtlety, and complexity suggested by the vocabulary are impossible to find in the kinds of documents that historians more commonly...

...Murdo J. Macleod Indigenous Revolts in Chiapas and the Andean Highlands . Edited by Gosner Kevin and Ouweneel Arij . Amsterdam : CEDLA , 1996 . Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography . viii , 282 pp. Paper . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

.... For anyone interested in these areas and topics, these will be important bibliographic references. The other substantive chapters focus on specific revolts. Kevin Gosner discusses the well-known Tzeltal revolt of 1712 and Robert Patch the equally famous Canek Rebellion of 1761; Christopher Archer examines...

... of ethnic identity for colonial Chiapas and notes there is little difference in surviving material remains between rural households from pre-Columbian to modern times regardless of ethnic identity. Kevin Gosner challenges Jeremy Baskes and Arij Ouweneel’s view of an uncoercive repartimiento de mercancías...

... to show that the court system provided a forum in which both indigenous women and men could participate in a public dialogue about community relations. Kevin Gosner explores the spiritual leadership of María López in the 1712 Tzeltal revolt, which he places within the context of economic and political...

... resistance and Spanish pressure. Kevin Gosner's account of the persistence of native elites in the Altos of Chiapas demonstrates the elites' success in holding on to property and power. Peter Gerhard's fine essay on the relocation of Indian town populations before 1570 demonstrates the far greater importance...

... is undertaken without the benefit of Richard Morse, Alfred Crosby, Nancy Farriss, William Taylor, Kevin Gosner, and David Brading. Instead, Oakah Jones invariably limits himself to works “about” Guatemala and Central America, a tactic that impoverishes his analytical categories. Take “culture,” for example...

...), or the many works by Kevin Gosner on colonial Chiapas. The result is a historical context tainted by inaccuracies. To choose one example, Captain General José de Bustamante of Guatemala was only a first ensign at 17, not a brigadier; his promotion to vice admiral came almost two decades after the Malaspina...

... , 260. 6. Bricker, Indian Christ , 59. 7. María del Carmen Valverde Valdés estimates that half of Chiapas's Indigenous population participated in the rebellion. Valverde Valdés, “De vírgenes,” 288. For extended discussion of the Tzeltal Revolt, see Gosner, Soldiers (quote); Viqueira...

...’ in Colonial Central America,” by Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona); “Cultural Survival in the Andes: A Comparative Approach to the Social Reproduction of Indigenous Groups in the Ecuadoran and Bolivian Highlands, 1500–1700,” by Karen Powers (Northern Arizona University); and “Ethnohistory and the Southern...

... Peru and Mexico” session, Kevin Gosner (Lafayette College) felt that seventeenth-century highland Chiapas experienced an economic decline that resulted in: the outward migration of ladinos; a greater role for civil and church officials; and the persistence of a tribute economy with native control...

... Gosner commented. Susan Ramírez, the second commentator, was unable to attend because of illness. Elizabeth Penry (New Mexico State University) presented “Battles of Legitimacy: Contestations of Indigenous Authority in Eighteenth-Century Alto Peru.” She delineated the shift inside indigenous...

... was the disappearance of Jesuit tutelage, which led to a weakening of religious pressures and some resurgence of previous beliefs. Guaycuruans who had remained outside the mission system also provided a reservoir of the local religions. Gosner addressed the causes of the revolt of 1712 in Chiapas, emphasizing...

... Infants,” 796, 807; Arrom, Women ; Carey, I Ask . 19. Restall, Maya World , 121–40; Schroeder, Wood, and Haskett, Indian Women ; Gosner and Kanter, “Women”; Kellogg, Law , 85–120. 18. Scott, “Gender”; Scott, Gender and the Politics ; Burton, “Finding Women.” 17. Striffler...