Articles

Berta E. Pérez

Rethinking Venezuelan Anthropology
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 513-533 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-513 [PDF] [References]  

Rodrigo Navarrete

Behind the Palisades: Sociopolitical Recomposition of Native Societies in the Unare Depression, the Eastern Venezuelan Llanos (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 535-559 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-535 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

H. Dieter Heinen and Alvaro García-Castro

The Multiethnic Network of the Lower Orinoco in Early Colonial Times
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 561-579 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-561 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Rafael A. Gassón

Quirípas and Mostacillas: The Evolution of Shell Beads as a Medium of Exchange in Northern South America
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 581-609 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-581 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Berta E. Pérez

The Journey to Freedom: Maroon Forebears in Southern Venezuela
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 611-634 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-611 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Silvia M. Vidal

Kuwé Duwákalumi: The Arawak Sacred Routes of Migration, Trade, and Resistance
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 635-667 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-635 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Lilliam Arvelo

Change and Persistence in Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in the Quíbor Valley, Northwestern Venezuela (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 669-704 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-669 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Franz Scaramelli and Kay Tarble

Cultural Change and Identity in Mapoyo Burial Practice in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 705-729 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-705 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Nelly Arvelo-Jiménez

Three Crises in the History of Ye'kuana Cultural Continuity
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 731-746 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-731 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Commentaries

Jonathan D. Hill

Colonial Transformations in Venezuela
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 747-754 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-747 [PDF]  

Review Essays

Seth Garfield

Recent Works on Amazonian Indians
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 755-766 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-755 [PDF]  

Cynthia Radding

Conquest, Chronicles, and Cultural Encounters: The Spanish Borderlands of North America
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 767-775 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-767 [PDF]  

James Taylor Carson

"Conquest or Progress!": Old Questions and New Problems in the Ethnohistory of the Native Southeast
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 777-790 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-777 [PDF] [References]  

Robin Ridington

Narrative Technology and Eskimo History
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 791-796 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-791 [PDF] [References]  

Book Reviews

John L. Kessell

Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire; New Views of Borderlands History
Edited by Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xiii + 275 pp., maps, tables, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)
Edited by Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. viii + 242 pp., introduction, illustrations, tables, maps, index. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 797-800 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-797 [PDF]  

Leslie S. Offutt

Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America
By Robert H. Jackson. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. ix + 150 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 800-802 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-800 [PDF]  

Dana Leibsohn

Native Traditions in the Postconquest World: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 2nd through 4th October 1992; Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use
Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins. (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998. vii + 480 pp., introduction, illustrations, index.)
Edited by G. Malcolm Lewis. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xx + 318 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, maps, index. $60.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 802-806 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-802 [PDF]  

John F. Chuchiak, IV

Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America
Edited by Nicholas Griffiths and Fernando Cervantes. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 304 pp., introduction, epilogue, index. $25.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 806-809 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-806 [PDF]  

Kris Lane

The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru
By Ward Stavig. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xxxiv + 348 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 809-811 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-809 [PDF]  

Robert W. Patch

The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom
By Grant D. Jones. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxvii + 568 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 811-813 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-811 [PDF]  

Kenneth J. Andrien

The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
By Matthew Restall. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiv + 441 pp., preface, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth).
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 813-815 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-813 [PDF]  

Paul Sullivan

Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico
By Gary H. Gossen. (New York: Routledge, 1999. xxxiii + 309 pp., preface, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 815-816 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-815 [PDF]  

Pedro J. Ferbel

The Indigenous People of the Caribbean
Edited by Samuel M. Wilson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. xiv + 253 pp., figures, tables, foreword, preface, works cited, contributors, index. $49.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 816-818 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-816 [PDF]  

Denise Fay Brown

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
By Pierre Clastres. Translated and with a foreword by Paul Auster. (New York: Zone Books, 1998. 349 pp., 57 illustrations, translator's note. $22.50 cloth).
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 818-821 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-818 [PDF]  

Karen Olsen Bruhns

Arqueología, antropología e historia en los Andes: Homenaje a María Rostworowski
Edited by Rafael Varón Gabai and Javier Flores Espinosa. (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, 1997. 813 pp., preface, introduction, interview with María Rostworowski, her bibliographies, frontispiece.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 821-823 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-821 [PDF]  

Melinda Marie Jetté

Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823-1837
By Keith R. Widder. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. xxiv + 220 pp., preface, maps, tables, bibliography, appendixes, index. $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 823-825 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-823 [PDF] [References]  

Paula L. Wagoner

Plateau, Volume 12 of Handbook of North American Indians
Edited by Deward E. Walker Jr. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xvi + 791 pp., preface, introduction, sources, maps, contributors, list of illustrations, bibliography, index. $61.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 825-827 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-825 [PDF]  

Frances Karttunen

Indigenous Literacies of the Americas: Language Planning from the Bottom Up; International Journal of the Sociology of Language 132: Indigenous Language Use and Change in the Americas
Edited by Nancy Hornberger. (New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. 393 pp., introduction, maps, illustrations, bibliographies, afterword, index. $41.45 cloth.)
Edited by Teresa L. McCarty and Ofelia Zepeda. (New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. 210 pp., map, table, bibliographies, two book reviews. $46.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 827-831 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-827 [PDF] [References]  

Susan Kellogg

Letras sobre voces: Multilingüismo a través de la historia
By Bárbara Cifuentes, in collaboration with Lucina García. (Mexico City: CIESAS and INI, 1998. 340 pp., preface, introduction, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography. 13.00 pesos).
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 831-833 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-831 [PDF]  

Judith Francis Zeitlin

Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes; The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca
Edited by Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. xxi + 503 pp., 86 illustrations, preface, contributors, introduction, chapter bibliographies, glossary, index. $19.95 paper.)
Edited by Kathryn Klein. (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1998. xiii + 162 pp., 158 illustrations, foreword, preface, chapter bibliographies. $55.00 cloth, $39.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 833-836 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-833 [PDF]  

Karen Olsen Bruhns

Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador
Edited by Ann Pollard Rowe. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xxii + 328 pp., preface, maps, 268 black and white +16 color plates, glossary, bibliography, index. $50.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 836-838 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-836 [PDF] [References]  

Matthew Restall

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru: Chronicles of the New World Encounter
By Pedro de Cieza de León. Edited and translated by Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. xviii + 501 pp., prologue, introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography. $21.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 838-840 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-838 [PDF]  

E. N. Anderson

Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations
By Brian Fagan. (New York: Basic, 1999. xix + 284 pp., preface, maps, bibliography, index. $25.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 840-842 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-840 [PDF]  

Wolfgang Gabbert

Ethnography through Thick and Thin
By George E. Marcus. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 275 pp., introduction, bibliography, index. $11.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 47(3-4): 842-844 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-842 [PDF]  

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