Articles

Carolyn Podruchny

Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition
Ethnohistory 51(4): 677-700 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-677 [PDF]  

Theda Perdue

Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South
Ethnohistory 51(4): 701-723 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-701 [PDF]  

William A. Starna and José António Brandão

From the Mohawk-Mahican War to the Beaver Wars: Questioning the Pattern
Ethnohistory 51(4): 725-750 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-725 [PDF]  

Rotem Kowner

Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548-1853
Ethnohistory 51(4): 751-778 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-751 [PDF]  

Commentaries

Jack Campisi and William A. Starna

Another View on "Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians"
Ethnohistory 51(4): 779-791 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-779 [PDF]  

Dave Davis

Response to Campisi and Starns
Ethnohistory 51(4): 793-797 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-793 [PDF] [References]  

Review Essays

Melissa L. Meyer

Race and Identity in Indian Country
Ethnohistory 51(4): 799-803 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-799 [PDF]  

Paul Sullivan

Ambivalence and Conquest: Recent Studies of Maya Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution in the Colonial Period
Ethnohistory 51(4): 805-809 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-805 [PDF]  

Featured Reviews

Susan Kellogg

Gender in Pre-Hispanic America
Edited by Cecelia F. Klein. (Washington, dc: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001. viii + 397 pp., preface, introduction, maps, illustrations, index. $40.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 811-816 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-811 [PDF] [References]  

Laurier Turgeon

Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians
By Patricia E. Rubertone. (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xvii, 248 pp., inventories, maps, illustrations, index. $40.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 817-823 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-817 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Robert N. Proctor

Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture
By Wiktor Stoczkowski. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxx + 244 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.) Translated from the French (1994) by Mary Turton.
Ethnohistory 51(4): 825-827 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-825 [PDF] [References]  

Regna Darnell

Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler. History of Anthropology, vol. 9. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. viii + 315 pp. $40.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 827-829 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-827 [PDF]  

Robert Boyd

Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography; Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin
By Lionel Youst and William R. Seaburg. Civilization of the American Indian Series, vol. 243. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 322 pp. $34.95 cloth.)
By Robert Ruby and John A. Brown. Civilization of the American Indian Series, vol. 191. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. xiv, 257 pp. $19.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 830-834 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-830 [PDF] [References]  

Thomas Gates

Standing Ground: Yurok Spirituality, 1850-1990
By Thomas Buckley. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xii + 325 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 834-836 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-834 [PDF]  

Wendy St. Jean

To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker
By Joy Porter. Foreword by William N. Fenton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xxiv + 307 pp., list of illustrations, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, selected bibliography, index. $34.95 hardcover.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 836-838 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-836 [PDF]  

Michael Harkin

Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James F. Brooks. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press; Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2002. 419 pp., maps, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. $22.50 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 838-840 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-838 [PDF]  

Stephen D. Glazier

Native Religions and the Cultures of North and South America
Edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan. (New York: Continuum Publishing, 2002, 330 pp., introduction, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 840-842 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-840 [PDF]  

Michael St. Denis

Archaeology of Formative Ecuador: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995
Edited by J. Scott Raymond and Richard L. Burger. (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Publications, 2003. vii +567 pp., preface, introduction, photographs, figures, maps, references, index, appendices. $30.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 842-844 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-842 [PDF]  

John F. Schwaller

Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún
Edited by Eloise Quiñones Keber. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. x +312 pp., introduction, illustrations, map, contributors, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 844-846 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-844 [PDF]  

James Howe

Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750
By Ignacio Gallup-Díaz. (New York: Columbia University Press, Gutenberg , e-series of electronic monographs, 2002. Approximately 188 pp., acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, maps, document archive. $49.50 electronic.)¹
Ethnohistory 51(4): 846-848 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-846 [PDF]  

Neil Safier

How to Write the History of the New World
By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 450 pp., introduction, figures, plates, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 848-852 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-848 [PDF] [References]  

Martha Woodson Rees

Crafting Tradition. The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carving
By Michael Chibnik. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xv + 265 pp., preface, introduction, 24 color and 53 black and white photographs, maps, tables. $22.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 852-854 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-852 [PDF] [References]  

José R. Oliver

Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death
By Neil L. Whitehead. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2002. 252 pp., notes, works cited, index. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 854-857 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-854 [PDF]  

Rick Warner

Delirio: The Fantastic, the Demonic and the Réel
By Marie Theresa Hernández. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. 320 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 857-858 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-857 [PDF]  

Barbara L. Stark

Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications
By Andrew Sluyter. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. xi +267 pp., preface, maps, bibliography, index. $29.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 51(4): 858-860 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00141801-51-4-858 [PDF]  

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