Neil L. Whitehead

Editor's Statement
Ethnohistory 49(2): 225 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-225 [PDF]  

Articles

Rebecca B. Bateman

Naming Patterns in Black Seminole Ethnogenesis
Ethnohistory 49(2): 227-257 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-227 [Abstract] [PDF]  

L. Antonio Curet

The Chief Is Dead, Long Live... Who? Descent and Succession in the Protohistoric Chiefdoms of the Greater Antilles
Ethnohistory 49(2): 259-280 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-259 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Ignacio Gallup-Díaz

The Spanish Attempt to Tribalize the Darién, 1735-50
Ethnohistory 49(2): 281-317 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-281 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karl H. Offen

The Sambo and Tawira Miskitu: The Colonial Origins and Geography of Intra-Miskitu Differentiation in Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras
Ethnohistory 49(2): 319-372 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-319 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Katherine E. Browne

Creole Economics and the Débrouillard: From Slave-Based Adaptations to the Informal Economy in Martinique
Ethnohistory 49(2): 373-403 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-373 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Book Reviews

Charles Hudson

Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
By James Taylor Carson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv + 183 pp., series editors' introduction, acknowledgments, notes, index. $40.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 405-406 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-405 [PDF]  

James Taylor Carson

Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
By Marvin T. Smith. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xix + 146 pp., foreword, preface, figures, plates, references, index. $49.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 407-408 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-407 [PDF]  

Larry Nesper

A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
By Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii + 233 pp., introduction, maps, notes, index. $47.50 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 408-411 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-408 [PDF]  

Clyde Ellis

The Kiowas and the Legend of Kicking Bird, with Three Kiowa Tales by Col. W. S. Nye
By Stan Hoig. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000. xxv + 341 pp., preface, prologue, maps, photographs, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 412-413 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-412 [PDF]  

Brett Rushforth

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building; Native Religions and Cultures of North America
By Ronald Niezen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xviii + 228 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.)
Edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan. (New York: Continuum, 2000. 237 pp., images, index. $35.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 414-417 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-414 [PDF]  

Edward F. Fischer

Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. Volume Six: Ethnology
Edited by John D. Monaghan, with the assistance of Barbara W. Edmonson. Victoria R. Bricker, general editor. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. viii + 340 pp., preface, maps, charts, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 417-420 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-417 [PDF]  

Susan M. Deeds

History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith Amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World
By Andrés Pérez de Ribas [1645]. Translated by Daniel T. Reff, Maureen Ahern, and Richard K. Danford. Annotations and introduction by Daniel T. Reff. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999. ix + 744 pp., preface, introduction, table, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 420-422 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-420 [PDF]  

Christine A. Kray

The Book of Chilam Balam of Na: Facsimile, Translation, and Edited Text
Edited by Ruth Gubler and David Bolles. (Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos, 2000. 310 pp., introduction, facsimile, glossary, bibliography. $27.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 422-424 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-422 [PDF]  

John K. Chance

Of Things of the Indies: Essays Old and New in Early Latin American History
By James Lockhart. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiv + 397 pp., preface, appendix, bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 424-426 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-424 [PDF]  

Paul Sullivan

Interculturalidad e Identidad Indígena: Preguntas Abiertas a la Globalización en México
Edited by Andreas Koechert and Barbara Pfeiler. Colleción Americana 4, Universität Bremen (Hannover, Germany: Verlag für Etnologie, 1999. 340 pp., introduction, bibliography.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 426-428 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-426 [PDF]  

Susan Schroeder

Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain
By Max Harris. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. x + 309 pp., prologue, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 428-429 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-428 [PDF]  

Joanne Rappaport

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic
By Gary Urton, with the collaboration of Primitivo Nina Llanos (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xv + 285 pp., introduction, 8 photos, 9 figures, 25 tables, appendix, notes, bibliography. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 430-433 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-430 [PDF]  

Seth Garfield

Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine; The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930
By Julyan G. Peard. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.)
By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. $35.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 433-436 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-433 [PDF]  

Chris Hannibal-Paci

Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions
Edited by Barnor Hesse. (London: Zed Books, 2000.x+262 pp., preface, bibliography, index.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 436-439 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-436 [PDF]  

Raymond A. Bucko

The Price of a Gift: A Lakota Healer's Story
By Gerald Mohatt and Joseph Eagle Elk. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xviii + 218 pp., photographs, figure, map, glossary, index, bibliography. $29.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 439-441 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-439 [PDF]  

George Pierre Castile

Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877
By Jill St. Germain. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xxiv + 253 pp., maps, tables, appendixes, index. $45.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 441-442 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-441 [PDF]  

Wade Davies

A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years
By Garrick Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey. (Santa Fe, NM: sar Press, 1999. 384 pp., photos, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 442-444 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-442 [PDF]  

Wendy St. Jean

The Alabama-Coushatta Indians
By Jonathan Hook. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. xvi + 152 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 444-446 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-444 [PDF]  

Jon T. Coleman

The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
By Andrew C. Isenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxii + 206 pp., introduction, maps, index. $24.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 446-448 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-446 [PDF]  

Susan Kellogg

Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
By Rosemary A. Joyce. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. xvi + 269 pp., map, figures, tables, notes, references, index. $40.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 448-451 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-448 [PDF] [References]  

Michael E. Smith

The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
By Pedro Carrasco. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xviii + 542 pp., preface, maps, tables, glossary, bibliography, general index, toponym index. $49.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 451-453 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-451 [PDF] [References]  

Marilyn A. Masson

Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Volume 1: Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis
Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D. Houston. (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000. xix + 292 pp., tables, illustrations, preface, obituary: Floyd Lounsbury, introduction, index. $35.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 454-456 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-454 [PDF]  

Takeshi Inomata

In the Realm of Nachan Kan: Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna de On, Belize
By Marilyn A. Masson. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000. 280 pp., preface, introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 456-458 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-456 [PDF]  

Constance Cortez

From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire
By Pete Sigal. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 368 pp., figures, line drawings, halftones. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 458-460 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-458 [PDF]  

John F. Schwaller

Sahagún and the Transition to Modernity
By Walden Browne. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. xii + 260 pp., foreword, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 460-462 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-460 [PDF]  

Rick Goulet

Harvest of Souls: The Jesuit Missions and Colonialism in North America, 1632-1650; The Chaco Mission Frontier: The Guaycuruan Experience
By Carole Blackburn. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xvi + 173 pp., illustrations, maps, notes, references, index. $60.00 cloth.)
By James Schofield Saeger. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. xviii + 266 pp., preface, illustrations, map, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 462-466 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-462 [PDF] [References]  

Audrey C. Shalinsky

Rethinking Visual Anthropology
Edited by Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. x + 306 pp., illustrations, introduction, index, $18.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 466-468 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-466 [PDF]  

W. George Lovell

Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate
By David Henige. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xi + 532 pp., bibliography, index. $47.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 468-470 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-468 [PDF]  

Susan Toby Evans

Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards
Edited by Christraud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. vii + 199 pp., introduction, bibliography, photographic sources, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 49(2): 471-473 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00141801-49-2-471 [PDF]  

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