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Sanctioning Matrimony: Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands . By Sal Acosta

Sanctioning Matrimony: Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands . By Sal Acosta. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. xii + 241 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00; ebook.) S anctioning Matrimony recreates an intriguing world where Mexicans, and especially Mexican women, are central, where other people of color and Euro-Americans steep in Mexican culture to fit into the Arizona borderlands. The book complicates the picture of race, class, and gender in the history of the borderlands. It moves past intermarriage between Mexican women and white men, beyond elite marriages, to explore little-known unions between Mexicans and Chinese, African-Americans, and whites across class. Mexican women and intermarriage played a key role in the formation of the Southwest borderlands and in the transformation of Tucson into an … jschiavonecamacho{at}antiochcollege.org

Capturing the Landscape of New Spain: Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition. Southwest Center Series. By Rebecca A. Carte.

Capturing the Landscape of New Spain: Baltasar Obregon and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition. Southwest Center Series. By Rebecca A. Carte. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xiv + 168 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) Baltasar Obregon’s Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva Espana (1584) has been published in two Spanish-language editions (1989, 1997) and one in English (1928) translated by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. Since the noted geographer of Mexico’s northwest, Carl O. Sauer, complained in 1932 that Obregon’s text was confused and lurid, no one has attempted a critical cultural reading of it until now. Rebecca A. Carte has used her cultural linguistic skills to undertake this task, providing us with a careful, theoretically informed reading of Obregon’s history of the “greater northwest” that reconciles his purposes … Susan.deeds{at}nau.edu

American Indians and National Forests. By Theodore Catton

American Indians and National Forests. By Theodore Catton. Foreword by Joel D. Holtrop. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. x + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95; ebook.) This book was commissioned by the US Forest Service (USFS) and is important scholarship on USFS-tribal relationships and Indian forestry. The first part of the book brings together secondary sources to highlight conservation history and the development of the USFS-tribal relationships. These relationships changed through the major eras of US tribal policy: treaty, removal, Indian New Deal, allotment, termination, and self-determination. The establishment of National Forests co-occurred with the loss of Indian land and Catton argues Indian forestry developed in part to stop “further diminishment of the Indian estate” … mdockry{at}fs.fed.us

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America . Amerind Studies in Anthropology. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund. Foreword by John Ware.

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America . Amerind Studies in Anthropology. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund. Foreword by John Ware. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xi + 276 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, chart, notes, index. $60.00.) B eyond Germs will appeal to historians of early America, the West, American Indians, and those interested in the history of disease. Determined to demonstrate that lack of immunity to novel diseases was only one component of the explanation for population decline, these scholars aim to if not overturn then at least dislodge virgin soil epidemics as the principle explanation for the cause of American Indian population decline. Their view is that virgin soil is both simplistic and, I would add, lazy. The claim that American Indian population demise is principally explainable because of their supposed lack of immunity to Old World … Cwm6w{at}eservices.virginia.edu

Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America . By Stephen J. Pyne.

Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America . By Stephen J. Pyne. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. vii + 541 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $29.95, paper.) In 1982 Stephen J. Pyne published Fire in America , a book that served notice that the history of wildfire was a topic worthy of consideration, and that the topic had found its author. Pyne, an elite wildland firefighter for fifteen seasons, understood fire in ways that no archival research could impart. Fire in America launched Pyne’s career and sent him on a journey, both figurative and literal, across the globe. Since then, he has published a suite of histories of fire around the world and now returns his attention to the United … James.lewis{at}foresthistory.org

How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands . By John E. Dean

How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands. By John E. Dean. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Xii + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $50.00; hardcover.) The subject of John E. Dean’s How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands is, as suggested by the title, how the discourses of U.S. manifest destiny, as curated in fictional narratives about the relationship of the United States and Mexico between the Texas Revolt (1836) and the end of the Mexican Revolution (1920), organized U.S. colonial knowledge about Mexicans and U.S. imperial practices towards Mexico well into the twentieth century. The idea that U.S. nationalist mythologies, operating under the sign of “History,” formed a seamless, self-legimating … jmgonzal{at}utexas.edu

Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico by Elizabeth Terese Newman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. 280 pp.

Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico by Elizabeth Terese Newman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. 280 pp.

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest. By Lesley Poling-Kempes

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest . By Lesley Poling-Kempes. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. viii + 375 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.) There are two especially gratifying elements of Lesley Poling-Kempes’s Ladies of the Canyons. The first is that the members of her “league of extraordinary women” come together in the Southwest much like the members of television’s A-Team assemble for their maverick adventures. We first meet Natalie Curtis Burlin, a brilliant and talented pianist born to Manhattan’s elite, on Washington Square. When she suffered a breakdown, her brother invited her to the Southwest to recover her health. She became a convert to the region’s landscape, rugged outdoor activity, and, …

The Morphology and Technology of Clovis Flat-Backed Cores from the Gault Site (41BL323), Texas

Blade production is recognized as a diagnostic component of Clovis lithic technology [Bradley, Bruce A., Michael B. Collins, and C. A. Hemmings 2010 Clovis Technology. International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series 17; Collins, Michael B. 1999 Clovis Blade Technology. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX; Huckell, Bruce B. 2007 Clovis Lithic Technology: A View from the Upper San Pedro Valley. In Murray Springs: A Clovis Site with Multiple Activity Areas in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona, edited by C. V. Haynes, Jr and Bruce B. Huckell. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ; Waters, Michael R., Charlotte D. Pevny, and D. L. Carlson 2011 Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas]. Clovis Blade reduction strategies have been previously documented [Bradley, Bruce A., Michael B. Collins, and C. A. Hemmings 2010 Clovis Technology. International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series 17], but the specific morphology of Clovis blade cores is underreported. This is a crucial aspect in identifying blade manufacture across the Clovis range and comparing regional diversity. Blade core morphology can also provide data on specific aspects of manufacture. This paper presents a study of Clovis “flat-backed” (wedge-shaped) blade cores from the Gault Site in Central Texas, USA. An analysis of the blade cores indicates that curved blades were a product of the morphology. Despite this, the intentionality and functional need for producing curved blades is uncertain. Further studies are necessary across the Clovis range to identify if one systematic production technology was utilized.

Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund, editors.Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America.

Journal Article Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund, editors. Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America. Get access Catherine M. Cameron Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund, editors. Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America. (Amerind Studies in Anthropology.) Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 275. $60.00. The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 2, April 2016, Page 697, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.697a Published: 28 March 2016

:La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City. Lydia R. Otero. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xiii + 272 pp. (Paper US$26.95)

:<i>La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City</i>. Lydia R. Otero. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xiii + 272 pp. (Paper US$26.95)

Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras - by Brondo, Keri V.

Brondo, Keri V. (2013) Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras, The University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), ix + 240 pp. £46.50 hbk. Land Grab, by Keri Brondo, is an ethnography of Garifuna resistance to neoliberal development policies and diminishing rights to resource management on the North Coast of Honduras. Garifuna are one of nine officially recognised ‘ethnic groups’ in Honduras and as such they are entitled to special rights and protections under the constitution. Nonetheless, their rights have been continuously encroached upon by the state and environmental NGOs. In this timely work, Brondo makes several key contributions to the ethnographic study of Garifuna land politics in Honduras. First, by centring gender as an analytical category, Land Grab reveals the gendered dimensions of land struggle and sheds light on the prominent roles played by women in the defence of Garifuna territorial rights. Second, she draws on feminist political ecology to highlight the effects of land privatisation and neoliberal conservation, which have disproportionately impacted the rights of women. Finally, she interrogates how development, in particular tourism development, produces structural inequalities that have impinged on Garifuna resource management in their territories. In the 1980s Garifuna began to identify as an autochthonous people. This shift, which was previously analysed by Mark Anderson (2009), is important if we want to understand the ways in which Garifuna blackness is articulated with notions of indigeneity and concepts of territorial rootedness. By focusing on how these conceptualisations of self and belonging play out in relation to development policies, Brondo highlights the contingent, yet deeply rooted nature of Afro-indigeneity as an identificatory category. Furthermore, Brondo makes key interventions with reference to gendered rights and activism. Ethnographic representations of Garifuna point to the centrality of gender difference in all aspects of social life (Gonzalez, 1988), especially as it relates to the construction of group identity, but Land Grab is the first study to analyse the gendered impacts of development policies. These policies have impelled greater outmigration from coastal Garifuna communities to Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and to the United States. Since the majority of migrants are young men, women are left to carry on the defence of their communities against incursions from the state, environmental NGOs and tourism investors. She states, ‘Women's environmental activism thus emerges not out of a “natural” connection to the earth but because women experience more negative fallout from environmental destruction or, in this case, regulatory measures’ (p. 109). Through her engagement with feminist political ecology, Brondo furthers anthropological debates on Garifuna matrifocality and women-led land-rights activism in Latin America. Brondo's study is based in Sambo Creek, an ethnically diverse Garifuna community characterised by longstanding conflicts over land and resources, and the Cayos Cochinos, an archipelago just north of Sambo Creek which is an increasingly popular ecotourism destination, and which was designated a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in 2003. Land Grab analyses the negotiation of land rights from the perspective of foreign expats, mestizos and tourism workers. Mestizo landowners, she argues, contest the autochthonous claims to place made by Garifuna activists through the assertion of an indio identity. Hence, mestizos symbolically link their contemporary land claims within Garifuna territory to a mythical indigenous past (pp. 120–122). They use this strategy to deny Garifuna rights as Hondurans, and to claim ownership over Garifuna lands they have acquired through legal and illegal channels. Brondo also underscores the importance of conservation to regional tourism development plans. She brings needed attention to the rights violations suffered by Garifuna in the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area (MPA). These violations have escalated since the approval of the 2004 park management plan developed by the Honduran Coral Reef Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund (p. 139). Conservation policies in the Cayos Cochinos MPA have placed extensive restrictions on the extraction of marine life, significantly curtailing the subsistence practices of Garifuna living within the protected area. Additionally, naval operations are now common in the region, as are escalating clashes between Garifuna and state security forces over the management and use of natural resources. In Land Grab, Brondo skillfully addresses the topic of gender identity as it relates to land struggle and development; her work on gender in combination with her focus on ‘green neoliberalism’ serves to reframe prevailing debates on Garifuna activism in Honduras.

The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America

Journal Article The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America Get access By Richard Aquila. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xii, 370 pp. Cloth, $65.00. Paper, $35.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1232–1233, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav687 Published: 01 March 2016

Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), pp. xii + 249, $55.00, hb.

Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932 (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), pp. xii + 249, $55.00, hb.

Reconnaissance in Sonora: Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase. By C. Gilbert Storms.

Reconnaissance in Sonora: Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase . By C. Gilbert Storms. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xi + 193 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) The movement of American adventurers and explorers, intent on knowledge and gain, characterized a good part of the early history of North America. During the first half of the nineteenth century, this activity focused on the trans-Mississippi West, including the Southwest, where filibusters journeyed into Spanish, then Mexican, Texas and, after the American victory over Mexico in 1848, northern Mexico. Charles Poston was an American filibuster who sought to take advantage of the anticipated U.S. purchase or annexation of disputed territory in what is today southern Arizona and northern Sonora. … lawsonr{at}bacone.edu

George Hunt: Arizona’s Crusading Seven-Term Governor. By David R. Berman.

George Hunt: Arizona’s Crusading Seven-Term Governor . By David R. Berman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xi + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $50.00.) The golden anniversary of Barry Goldwater’s ill-fated 1964 presidential campaign generated a cottage industry of Arizona political biographies in the last few years. David R. Berman’s study of George W. E. P. Hunt, Arizona’s longtime Democratic governor, adds to the collection. As Arizona shifted to Republican political dominance in the years following World War II, Hunt frequently became the object of derision. Historians and others picked up the brickbats lobbed by Hunt’s opponents over the years, making sure to remind readers that he once worked as a waiter in a … doug.kupel{at}gmail.com

The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America. By Richard Aquila.

The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America . Modern American West Series. By Richard Aquila. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xi + 371 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.) Although no longer a centerpiece of motion picture releases, the Western’s cultural importance continues to attract scholars. Richard Aquila has drawn selectively from the considerable body of published scholarship, together with his own take on Western films, for this up-to-date overview of the genre’s history. More than tracing the history of the genre, Aquila examines how the Western has shaped and reshaped images of the mythic West in ways that “keep pace with corresponding changes in American history and culture” (p. 10). While not a novel approach to the genre, Aquila extends it … j-lenihan{at}tamu.edu

Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory ed. by Lee M. Panich, Tsim D. Schneider (review)

Reviewed by: Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistoryed. by Lee M. Panich, Tsim D. Schneider Kelly L. Jenks Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Edited by Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Pp. 264. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, list of contributors, index.) In publishing this edited volume, Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider intended to counter a historical colonial bias in mission archaeology, urging their readers to “consider the potential for studying Spanish missions within indigenous landscapes” (5). The volume includes contributions from scholars engaged in archaeological and ethnohistorical research at Spanish missions in the modern states of California, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. The editors arrange these contributions into themes that focus on the role of Spanish missions within existing indigenous political landscapes (part 1), social and economic networks (part 2), and wider cultural landscapes (part 3). These themes are broad, but this is understandable in an edited volume that includes research from such diverse regions, contexts, and periods in time. Kent Lightfoot provides closing commentary. While the individual chapters vary in focus and content, the volume as a whole succeeds in demonstrating the value of viewing missions from an indigenous perspective. Focusing on the indigenous cultural and physical environments of the missions enables the authors to explore how local factors influenced the process of missionization. For example, Tamra L. Walter and Thomas R. Hester argue that in South Texas indigenous populations incorporated the Spanish missions into their foraging economies, but could not be forced to settle permanently at those sites. The mission enterprise was equally unsuccessful among horticultural populations in East Texas where, as Paul S. Marceaux and Mariah F. Wade argue, Spanish missionaries lacked the military and economic power to compel or persuade the Caddos to accept missionization. Focusing on neophyte populations [End Page 318]within their wider cultural settings also makes it easier to recognize instances of cultural borrowing and change (see Rubén G. Mendoza’s chapter on the Mexicanization of California Indians), and to thereby avoid the pitfall of interpreting changes in material culture as evidence of cultural extinction. This is no small thing; Panich and Schneider point out that the early scholarly narratives about California missionaries working native populations to extinction have hurt descendants of those missionized populations as they seek to gain federal recognition as Indian tribes. There are some shortcomings. As with most edited volumes, not all contributions are equally focused on the themes and questions introduced by the editors. The volume also would have benefited from a more focused discussion of the meaning of indigeneity, as it is clear from reading different chapters that many overlapping indigenous landscapes existed and there are numerous ways of understanding indigeneity, both during colonial times and in the present. Nevertheless, this volume is a valuable contribution to the literature on Spanish colonialism and colonialism in general, both for the update it provides on Spanish mission archaeology in the United States and for the direction it offers on how and why to apply an indigenous landscape perspective. Kelly L. Jenks New Mexico State University Copyright © 2015 The Texas State Historical Association

Communities of Practice: An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning ed. by Patrick Marlow, Sabine Siekmann

Reviewed by: Communities of Practice: An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning ed. by Patrick Marlow, Sabine Siekmann Patrick Moore Communities of Practice: An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning. Edited by Patrick Marlow and Sabine Siekmann. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 179. $35.00 (paper). This volume provides a detailed account of advanced training programs for teachers of both heritage languages and English working in the Yup’ik communities of Alaska. The editors and contributors were instructors in the program and hence intimately acquainted with its design, challenges, and successes. The program at the University of Alaska was developed to serve the needs of heritage language teachers in Alaska, and drew inspiration from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Research in Language Acquisition and the University of Arizona’s American Indian Language Development Institute. Each chapter focuses on specific ways that the training program addressed the interests and needs of teachers working in the Yup’ik communities. This volume is especially valuable for documenting the creation of a program for training Indigenous language instructors and teachers of English working in Indigenous communities. As the authors note, documentation of such programs is generally sparse, and thus works like the one reviewed here are extremely useful for the contribution that such knowledge can potentially make to similar programs in other regions. While the authors discuss the challenges of the training programs, as professors and participants in the program they also have a vested interest in providing a positive portrayal of the outcomes. Their focus is on the training program, and does not examine in detail the ways that the training affected teaching and learning at the community level. The volume addresses ways that the training program was conceived in order to reflect Yup’ik cultural practices and values, and emphasizes that the students in the program were encouraged to think critically about all aspects of curriculum development. This is an especially challenging undertaking because a great deal of the educational system, including curriculum content and language teaching methodologies, are routinely taken for granted, even though they differ significantly from historical and contemporary indigenous modes of teaching and learning. In this program, the proposed models for teaching heritage language and English closely follow successful techniques that are being used for other languages in school settings, while adding elements that may appeal to teachers and learners in the Yup’ik communities. [End Page 102] The authors make use of the relevant contemporary theory in education and other fields, both in designing training programs and in discussing program features. The literature on some of the topics is extensive, however, and the authors tend to focus on sources with practical implications rather than probing the deeper relevance of their work. The chapter by Sabine Seikmann and Hishinlai’ (Kathy R. Sikorski), “Reinventing Technology: Computers as Tools for Coconstructing the Local Voice in Materials Development” (pp. 51—72), is characteristic in this regard. As the authors point out, it is often difficult to find heritage language websites that can be used by language instructors to enhance their language teaching. Since there are many possible benefits of using such materials, one of the goals of the training was to enhance the participants’ knowledge of computer-based technologies for use with language learning. Seikmann and Hishinlai’ identified an initial resistance on the part of the Yup’ik heritage language instructors to the use of computers because they had limited experience with their use, and previous experiences with using such tools had been imposed by school administrators in unsupportive ways. The trainers scaled back the applications that they planned to cover, but it is clear from the excerpts from course evaluations that some of the participants still found the technology component overwhelming. There are opportunities for a wider discussion of the implications of the challenges in facilitating instructors’ use of computer technologies in language teaching. The authors say that “within [Socio-Cultural Theory] . . . technology is viewed as one of many tools humans use within goal-directed activities” (p. 56). In actuality, much of the literature theorizing the use of media is concerned with its positive or negative effects in particular contexts...

Hopi Katsina Songs ed. by Emory Sekaquaptewa, Kenneth C. Hill, and Dorothy K. Washburn

Reviewed by: Hopi Katsina Songs ed. by Emory Sekaquaptewa, Kenneth C. Hill, and Dorothy K. Washburn Jeremy Strachan Hopi Katsina Songs. Edited by Emory Sekaquaptewa, Kenneth C. Hill, and Dorothy K. Washburn. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. [xi, 421 p. ISBN 9780803262881. $65.] Hopi transcriptions (with English translations), appendices, bibliography, index. Emory Sekaquaptewa (1928–2007) was a Hopi linguist, anthropologist, and tribal judge who dedicated much of his life to preserving Hopi culture and language. Among his numerous contributions as researcher, educator, and steward of Hopi knowledge, the most well-known is the Hopi Dictionary Project, for which he served as Cultural Editor. The project was a decade-long initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities undertaken in partnership with the University of Arizona, which culminated with the landmark publication of the Hopi Dictionary = Hopìikwa lavàytutuveni: a Hopi–English dictionary of the Third Mesa dialect with an English–Hopi finder list and a sketch of Hopi grammar (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998). Hopi Dictionary, a systematic compendium of Third Mesa dialect, features some 30,000 entries and a sketch of Hopi grammar, and has since been adopted by the Hopi people as the standard guide for teaching the language. Hopi Katsina Songs, edited by Sekaquaptewa along with Kenneth C. Hill and Dorothy K. Washburn, is a crucial extension of the Hopi Dictionary Project (which Hill also edited) that will remain valuable for scholars working with the rich heritage of archived Hopi songs. Like the Dictionary, the present volume is not meant, as the editors themselves indicate, to be read down from front to back (p. 38); instead, it presents 150 songs drawn from seven separate archival collections, annotated individually with word-by-word translations (done by Sekaquaptewa, who also contributed 25 songs) and explanatory comments (provided by Washburn) illuminating each song’s metaphorical meanings as they relate to larger themes in Hopi cosmology. As such, folklorists and ethnomusicologists will find in this book an important textual guide to accompany extant archival recordings of Hopi katsina songs found in a number of individual and public collections. [End Page 126] To a broader readership, this book will provide an attractive point of entry into understanding the value systems and objects that comprise Hopi cultural patrimony—katsina songs are, in essence, oral texts that “describe the core beliefs of the Hopi life-way and how they should be followed” (p. 19). Katsinas (also commonly known as “kachinas”) are “perfect life-promoting spirit beings” who, in Hopi belief, travel from their homes, from the four cardinal directions in the Fifth World in the form of clouds or rain, to Hopi villages in the present (Fourth) World (p. 1). Their appearances at festivals, gatherings, and ritual dances align with key times in the cultivation cycle of corn, and the songs themselves, as the present volume so richly details, delineate myriad aspects of the metaphors that connect contemporary Hopi culture to the past. The songs in the book are taken from recordings that span the first half of the twentieth century, in addition to those contributed by Sekaquaptewa himself. The earliest recorded katsina songs, from the Natalie Curtis Burlin collection, date from 1903. Sekaquaptewa attempted to translate recordings made in the 1890s by Jesse Walter Fewkes, but the degraded sound quality of those examples prevented any meaningful translation. The most recent recordings, made by ethnomusicologist George List, date from 1960. In sum, the main goal of katsina songs is to instill and reinforce a positive, productive, and moral community-based lifeway. Corn, as is well known, is the key metaphor to Hopi life. It forms the subject of many of the songs transcribed here, and the various aspects of its progenitive, sustaining properties—as well as the important lessons in morals and ethics embodied in the corn lifeway—are voiced evocatively and sensually in Sekaquaptewa’s translations. The editors, in anticipating any possible charges of impropriety for disseminating or reproducing culturally-sensitive or restricted material, make the disclaimer right away that katsina song are, by and large, public texts, not limited to Hopi audiences. Indeed, they are “relevant for all humankind” (p. 1), although it is doubtful that such universality...