The editorial office receives a number of edited volumes and other texts that will be of interest to our readership. When these works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, we list them here. To introduce these volumes, we include the publication information and tables of contents. The volumes selected for this issue include recently received anthologies.
The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola. By Milagros Ricourt. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Pp. 187. $90.00 cloth; $27.95 paper.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Border at the Crossroad
Chapter 3: The Creolization of Race
Chapter 4: Cimarrones: The Seed of Subversion
Chapter 5: Criollismo Religioso
Chapter 6: Race, Identity, and Nation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization. By Christopher R. W. Dietrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $34.99 paper.
Introduction: The Cash-Value of Decolonization
Chapter 1: One Periphery: The Creation of Sovereign Rights, 1949–1955
Chapter 2: Past Concessions: The Arab League, Sovereign Rights, and OPEC, 1955–1960
Chapter 3: Histories of Petroleum Colonization: Oil Elites and Sovereign Rights, 1960–1967
Chapter 4: Rights and Failure: The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo
Chapter 5: Nationalist Heroes: Imperial Withdrawal, the Cold War, and Oil Control, 1967–1970
Chapter 6: A Turning Point of Our History: The Insurrectionists and Oil, 1970–1971
Chapter 7: A Fact of Life: The Consolidation of Sovereign Rights, 1971–1973
Chapter 8: The OPEC Syndrome: The Third World's Energy Crisis, 1973–1975.
Conclusion: Dead by Its Own Law
Appendix I: Chronology
Appendix II: Anticolonial Elites
Bibliography
Index
The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru. By Lisa Trever. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 366. 14 color illustrations. 255 halftones. 67 line illustrations. $69.95 paper.
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Out of the Archive, into the Field: a Modern History of Art and Archaeology at Panãmarca
Introduction
Monumental Visions within Nineteenth-Century Narratives
Panãmarca in the Shadow of Tello's 1933–1934 Nepenã Expeditions
Art, Archaeology, and North Coast Indigenismo at Midcentury
The Discovery and Replication of an Iconic Painting and the True Story of its Destruction
Recuperation Episodes in Panãmarca's Archaeology Since the 1960s
The Art and Science of Archaeology in the Light of History: Framing the New Illustrated Corpus from Panãmarca
Part 2: Findings of the Panãmarca Documentary Field Project
Panãmarca Revisited
Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales
Documentation of Archaeological Contexts and mural paintings
Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Ricardo Morales
Relative and Absolute Chronologies
Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, and Ricardo Toribio
Mural Iconography in Comparative Perspective
Concluding Summary of Field Findings
Appendix 1: Plotted Radiocarbon Dates from Panãmarca
Appendix 2: AMS Radiocarbon Data
Appendix 3: Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates
Appendix 4: Painting Sequence of the Temple of the Painted Pillars.
References
Contributors
Index
Prensa tradicional y liderazgos populares en Brasil. By Ariel Goldstein. Raleigh: A Contra Corriente, 2017. Pp. 399. $19.95 paper.
Prólogo
Introducción: Populismo y nacional-estatismo en la historia brasileña
Capítulo 1: Prensa política en Brasil
Capítulo 2: Prensa y política durante el segundo gobierno de Getúlio Vargas (1951–1954)
Capítulo 3: El segundo gobierno de Vargas en los editoriales: O Globo y O Estado de S. Paulo
Capítulo 4: Prensa y política durante el primer gobierno de Lula da Silva (2003–2006)
Capítulo 5: El primer gobierno de Lula en los editoriales: O Globo y O Estado de S. Paulo
Conclusiones finales
Referencias bibliográficas
The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Environment of the Marismas Nacionales: The Prehistoric Pacific Littoral of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico. Edited by Michael S. Foster. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017. Pp. 600. 192 Illustrations. 30 maps. $70.00 cloth.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction and project History
Stuart D. Scott
Chapter 2: Physical Setting
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 3: Archaeological Background
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 4: Chronology
Michael S. Foster with contributions by Stuart D. Scott
Chapter 5: Site Descriptions and Excavations
Michael S. Foster and Stuart D. Scott
Chapter 6: Ceramics
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 7: Artifacts
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 8: Diet and Subsistence
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 9: Mortuary Practices
Michael S. Foster
Chapter 10: Paleopathology and Cultural Modifications of Skeletal Remains
George W. Gill
Chapter 11: Skeletal Biology and Population Affinities
George W. Gill and Henry W. Case
Chapter 12: The Marismas Nacionales: A Historical View of the Conquest and Early Post Conquest Periods
Patricia Kay Scott
The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos: Change and Stability. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. 304. $95.00 cloth.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher
Chapter 1: Introducing San Marcos
Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher
Chapter 2: Situating San Marcos
Ann F. Ramenofsky, Kari L. Schleher, and Ariane O. Pinson
Chapter 3: San Marcos Pueblo and the Galisteo Basin from First Contact to the Pueblo Revolt
Richard Flint
Chapter 4: Temporal Reconstruction of San Marcos
Ann F. Ramenofsky and Jonathan E. van Hoose
Chapter 5: Cycles of Earth and Wood
Ariane O. Pinson
Chapter 6: Re-excavating Nelson's Rooms
Ariane O. Pinson and Shawn L. Penman
Chapter 7: Artifacts from San Marcos Pueblo
Dorothy L. Larson, Kari L. Schleher, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Jonathan E. Van Hoose, and Jennifer Boyd Dyer
Chapter 8: Learning and Production
Kari L. Schleher
Chapter 9: Lithic Technology at Pueblo San Marcos
Anne M. Compton
Chapter 10: Obsidian Sourcing, Technology, and Hydration Dating
Ann F. Ramenofsky, Anastasia Steffen, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Philippe D. Letourneau, and Adam Okun
Chapter 11: Metallurgy and Its Consequences in the New Mexico Colony
C. David Vaughan
Chapter 12: Reconstructing the Population History at San Marcos
Ann F. Ramenofsky
Chapter 13: Roomblocks as Tells
Ariane O. Pinson
Chapter 14: Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History
Scott G. Ortman
Chapter 15: On the Question of Protohistoric Pueblo Population Change
Ann F. Ramenofsky
Appendix One: Documented Mining-Related Interactions between Spaniards and Southwestern Indians of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
References Cited
Contributors
Index
