Mexico

Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Joel W. Palka
American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 3, September 2016, pp. 677-678
Description
Book review of: Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico by Robert M. Laughlin. Translated by Socorro Gómez Hernández and Juan Benito de la Torre.
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“Maybe Einstein Was Part Yaqui”: Deposing Thought in Works by Endrezze and Silko

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Catherine Rainwater
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 1-28
Description
Examines the reappropriation of history in the work of Anita Endrezze and Leslie Silko through Indigenous conceptions of scientific knowledge. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 1.
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Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
James H. Cox
American Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, September 2010, pp. 639-661
Description
Looks at how Todd Downing appropriates and refigures Mexico's Indigenous history and culture to reveal evidence of the modern Indigenous people obscured by Indigenismo discourse. The article also anticipates the anticolonial discourses of the American Indian civil rights movement.
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The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Kathleen M. McIntyre
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 3, Global Indigenous Higher Education, Spring, 2015
Description
Book review of: The Mixtecs of Oaxaca by Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Kalkansky.
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Mothers of Corn: Wixárika Women, Verbal Performances, and Ontology

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cyndy Margarita García-Weyandt
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 113-120
Description
Discusses the active role of Maize within Wixáritari ceremony from cultivation to harvesting, emphasizing the role of women in preparing Corn-based substances for ceremonial offerings. Through storytelling and performative practices women are active in transmitting the relationships between corn and community.
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The Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada as Femicides: Toward a Decolonial Intersectional Reconceptualization of Femicide

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paulina García-Del Moral
Signs, vol. 43, no. 4, Summer , 2018, pp. 929-954
Description
Argues that the term femicide is inadequate since it refers to generic male violence against women, and crimes against Indigenous women are racialized gendered violence rooted in the effects of colonial power relations.
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The Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada as Feminicides: Toward a Decolonial Intersectional Reconceptualization of Femicide

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paulina García-Del Moral
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 43, no. 4, Summer, 2018, pp. 929-954
Description
An argument against the use of femicide as means to analyze murdered Indigenous women, rather it must go beyond the radical feminist definition to an intersectional framework to make gender as a necessary but not a definitive analytical category.
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The Nations of a State

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward H. Spicer
Rosamond B. Spicer
boundary 2, vol. 19, no. 3, 1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Autumn, 1992, pp. 26-48
Description
Looks at the concept of the nation-state and the autonomous nature of the American Indian within the state.
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Native American Foods: History, Culture, and Influence on Modern Diets

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sunmin Park
Nobuko Hongu
James W. Daily
Journal of Ethnic Foods, vol. 3, no. 3, 2016, pp. 171-177
Description
Discusses common foods that originated in the Americas and have been incorporated into cuisine around the world. Includes chart showing: name of food, region of origin, preparation method, and major nutrients provided.
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A New Anthropology of Neo-Indians

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brian D. Haley
Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 5, October 2014, pp. 670-671
Description
Book review of: The Neo-Indians: a Religion for the Third Millennium by Jacques Galinier and Antoinette Molinié.
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98. In Two Parts - Part 2

E-Books
Author/Creator
J. W. Powell
Description
Report includes the following papers: Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes Localization of Tusayan Clans by Cosmos Mindeleff Mounds in Northern Honduras by Thomas Gann Mayan Calendar Systems by Cyrus Thomas Primitive Numbers by W. J. McGee Numeral Systems of Mexico and Central America by Cyrus Thomas Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies by Jesse Walter Fewkes The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes by Albert Ernest Jenks
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North America: an Introduction

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Angelika E. Sauer
The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 761-763
Description
Book review of: North America: an Introduction by Michael M. Brescia and John C. Super.
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