Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, Ukiah, California, May through September 1998; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998 through January 1999; National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, May 9through August 15, 1999 (review venue); University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, October 1999 through September 2000.
Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market. Special issue of Expedition, The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 40(1), 1998.     

The Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us

The Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us. Barbara J. King. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research, 1999. 442 pp.     

Woven by the Grandmothers

Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, February 1-April 26,1998.
Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Eulalie H. Bonar. ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996. 214 pp.     

Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian

Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian. Tim Johnson. ed. Washington. DC. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, 1998. 206 pp.     

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI, 1998; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, December 4, 1999-February 2000; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, April 20-July 16, 2001; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, August 27, 2000-January 16, 2001; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, March-May 2001; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, June-September 2001; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT, October 2001-January 2002.
Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles. Barbara A. Hail. ed. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 2000. 135 pp.     

Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People

Ainu: Spirit of. Northern People. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, April 30,1999-January 2, 2000.
Ainu: Spirit of. Northern People. William W. Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil. eds. Washington, DC: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with University of Washington Press, 1999. 415 pp.     

Museum Exhibit

Book reviewed in this article:
Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. American Exhibition: Nelson Gallery of Art-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, April 16 to June 19, 1977 (European Exhibition: Hayward Gallery, London, October 1976 to January 1977).
Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. Ralph T. Coe .     

Archaic States.

Archaic States. Gary M. Feinman and Joyce Marcus. eds. Santa Fe: School for American Research Press, 1998. 427 pp.     

Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture

Gray Areas: Ethnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture . Philip B. Stafford, ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2003. 317 pp.     

Anthropology in the Margins of the State

Anthropology in the Margins of the State . Veena Das and Deborah Poole, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2004. 330 pp.     

Senses of Place

Senses of Place. Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso. eds. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996. 293 pp.     

High Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1b Infection in a Small Town of Argentina. Phylogenetic and Bayesian Coalescent Analysis

Previous studies in Argentina have documented a general prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection close to 2%. In addition, a high prevalence of HCV has been recently reported in different Argentinean small rural communities. In this work, we performed a study aimed at analyzing the origins and diversification patterns of an HCV outbreak in Wheelwright, a small rural town located in Santa Fe province (Argentina).A total of 89 out of 1814 blood samples collected from people living in Wheelwright, were positive for HCV infection. The highest prevalence (4.9%) was observed in people older than 50 years, with the highest level for the group aged between 70–79 years (22%). The RFLP analyses showed that 91% of the positive samples belonged to the HCV-1b genotype. The E1/E2 and NS5B genes were sequenced, and their phylogenetic analysis showed that the HCV-1b sequences from Wheelwright were monophyletic. Bayesian coalescent-based methods were used to estimate substitution rates and time of the most recent common ancestor (tMRCA). The mean estimated substitution rates and the tMRCA for E1/E2 with and without HVR1 and NS5B were 7.41E-03 s/s/y and 61 years, 5.05E-03 s/s/y and 58 years and 3.24E-03 s/s/y and 53 years, respectively. In summary, the tMRCA values, the demographic model with constant population size, and the fact that the highest prevalence of infection was observed in elder people support the hypothesis that the HCV-1b introduction in Wheelwright initially occurred at least five decades ago and that the early epidemic was characterized by a fast rate of virus transmission. The epidemic seems to have been controlled later on down to the standard transmission rates observed elsewhere.     

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity

Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity. Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford, eds. Santa Fe: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, 2005. 322 pp.     

Body Art

Body Art: Marks of Identity. American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 20, 1999–May 29, 2000.     

Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings

Making Alternative Histories: The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings. Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson. eds. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1995. 312 pp.     

The biological relationships of some prehistoric and historic Pueblo populations

Genetic evidence from the skeletal remains of three Pueblo populations, those of Hawikuh, Pueblo Bonito, and Puye, does not indicate that important racial differences arose between these groups, either through genetic influx or selection. They formed a unified group when compared with several non-Southwestern skeletal samples. Significant genetic variability, however, exists between each pair of populations, contradicting the idea of their belonging to a unified Pueblo Indian gene pool or to a fixed physical type. No differences can be detected between prehistoric populations and those contacted by Europeans. Genetic drift, supplemented by the action of non-random cultural associations and disease, provides a better explanation of the biological variability of Pueblo Indian populations than gene flow or directional selection.     

“We Have All Been Colonized”1: Subordination and Resistance on a Global Arts Stage

A century of Native American arts commerce in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has resulted in a market in which visual artists report severe restrictions, both in the content of their work and its reception. This case study examines the efforts of a contemporary native arts collective based in Santa Fe that sought to “create culturally-significant art free of the pressures of a commercially-driven society.” The forum the group chose was the global stage of the Venice Biennale. The 1999 and 2001 Biennale exhibitions sponsored by the Native American Arts Alliance demonstrated that the area of greatest tension for organizers, artists and audience concerned ideas of authorship and control. While this international presentation offered an alternative approach to arts production and reception outside a buy-and-sell arena, traditional arts commerce rules continued to inform the exchange of information. New ideas of authorship and control reflective of a collectivist attitude collapsed to established models of economic transactions based on individualism. The author concludes that cultural arts exploitation cannot be altered by erasure of economic constraints alone, but is more poignantly informed by internalized notions of disempowerment and subordination, largely in reaction to corporate appropriation and legal systems of ownership. The identification and application of an indigenous knowledge systems approach is advocated as a research methodology for understanding contemporary native arts productions.     

TEWA KINSHIP TERMS FROM THE PUEBLO OF HANO, ARIZONA

Late Research Fellow and Mary-Ewart Scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, England; student attached to the School of American Archaeology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.     

Drawing on Cultural Memory: Self and Other in Native American Ledger Art

Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World. Janet Catherine Berlo. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 2000. 189 pp.
Arrow's Elk Society Ledger. Mike Cowdrey. Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1999. 254 pp.
Will Tell of My War Story. Scott M. Thompson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. 120 pp.     

Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation.

Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation. Larry Evers and Barre Toelken. eds. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001. 264 pp.