Guest Editor's Introduction

Paul K. Eiss

Constructing the Maya
Ethnohistory 55(4): 503-508 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-010 [PDF] [References]  

Commentary

John M. Watanabe

Being Like a State: A Historical Anthropology of Translocal Representation (in Both Senses of the Term)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 509-524 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-011 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Articles

Paul K. Eiss

El Pueblo Mestizo: Modernity, Tradition, and Statecraft in Yucatán, 1870-1907
Ethnohistory 55(4): 525-552 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-012 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ben Fallaw

Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
Ethnohistory 55(4): 553-578 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-013 [Abstract] [PDF]  

David Carey, Jr.

"Hard Working, Orderly Little Women": Mayan Vendors and Marketplace Struggles in Early-Twentieth-Century Guatemala
Ethnohistory 55(4): 579-607 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-014 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen E. Lewis

Mexico's National Indigenist Institute and the Negotiation of Applied Anthropology in Highland Chiapas, 1951-1954
Ethnohistory 55(4): 609-632 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-015 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Walter E. Little

A Visual Political Economy of Maya Representations in Guatemala, 1931-1944
Ethnohistory 55(4): 633-663 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-016 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Review Essay

Susan Kellogg

Gender and Ethnohistory in the Americas: Recent Works
With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700. By Karen B. Graubart. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. xii + 249 pp., introduction, maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas. Edited by Nora E. Jaffary. (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xii + 206 pp., introduction, tables, bibliography, index. $89.95 cloth.)
Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America. Edited by Ondina E. González and Bianca Premo. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xi + 258 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 665-671 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-017 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Kate Williams

Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xv + 281 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 673-674 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-018 [PDF]  

Gray H. Whaley

American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880. By Deborah A. Rosen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 675-676 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-019 [PDF]  

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation
White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. By Jacqueline Fear-Segal. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxvi + 398 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 676-678 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-020 [PDF]  

Brice Obermeyer

Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment
Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment. By Renée Ann Cramer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xxi + 234 pp., list of tables, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 678-679 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-021 [PDF]  

Ann McMullen

Three Centuries of Woodland Indian Art: A Collection of Essays
Three Centuries of Woodland Indian Art: A Collection of Essays. Edited by J. C. H. King and Christian F. Feest. (European Review of Native American Studies Monographs, number 3. Altenstadt, Germany: ZKF Publishers, 2007. vi + 200 pp., introduction, map, illustrations. $29.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 680-681 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-022 [PDF]  

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Dark Storm Moving West
Dark Storm Moving West. By Barbara Belyea. (Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2007. xiv + 188 pp., acknowledgments, introductions, illustrations, bibliography, index. $49.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 681-683 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-023 [PDF]  

Brett Rushforth

Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. By Carl J. Ekberg. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi + 236 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, index. $38.00 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 683-685 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-024 [PDF]  

John W. W. Mann

Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman's Stolen Identity
Also Called Sacajawea: Chief Woman's Stolen Identity. By Thomas H. Johnson, with Helen S. Johnson. (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008. x + 89 pp., acknowledgments, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, recommended reading, student study guide. $13.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 685-686 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-025 [PDF]  

Sheri M. Shuck-Hall

The Jamestown Project
The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. vii + 380 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, index. $29.99 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 686-688 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-026 [PDF]  

Katherine Osburn

Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence
Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence. By Valerie Lambert. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xiv + 306 pp., acknowledgements, introduction, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth).
Ethnohistory 55(4): 688-689 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-027 [PDF]  

Steven C. Hahn

African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation. By Gary Zellar. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xix + 343 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 690-691 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-028 [PDF]  

John E. Worth

Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836
Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836. By H. Thomas Foster II, with contributions by Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund and Lisa O'Steen. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xxii + 292pp., illustrations, maps, preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. $32.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 691-693 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-029 [PDF]  

Brian Stross

Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, references, index. $27.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 693-695 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-030 [PDF]  

Angela Herren

Feather Crown: The Eighteen Feasts of the Mexica Year
Feather Crown: The Eighteen Feasts of the Mexica Year. By Gordon Brotherston. (London: The British Museum Press, 2005. x + 106 pp., preface, maps, tables, color plates, appendix, bibliography, index. $35.00 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 695-696 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-031 [PDF]  

David Carey, Jr.

Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala; Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond
Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala. By René Reeves. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. viii + 249 pp., introduction, maps, index.)
Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond. By Hilary E. Kahn. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xi + 242 pp., introduction, map, triptychs, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 697-701 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-032 [PDF]  

Barbara A. Sommer

The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830; Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750-1830. By Hal Langfur. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xv + 408 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $68.00 cloth.)
Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Cynthia Radding. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xxiv + 431 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, maps, figures, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.)
Ethnohistory 55(4): 701-705 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00141801-2008-033 [PDF]  

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