TY - JOUR
AU - CHETHAM, DEIRDRE
AB - SINGLE REVIEWS Yaxcaba ´ and the Caste War of Yucatan: ´ An Archaeologi- of a region and its material evolution will leave Yucatecan cal Perspective. Rani T. Alexander. Albuquerque: University (and Mexican) historians wishing to see the method applied of New Mexico Press, 2004. 207 pp. elsewhere. But although certainly intriguing to anyone with an in- TERRY RUGELEY terest in the field, Alexander’s work does raise some doubts. University of Oklahoma From the social historian’s perspective, this delves deeply into the house foundations of a lost people, but not quite The Caste War (1847–1901, depending on where one wants so deeply into their skin and their psyche. Beyond that there to draw the final curtain) was the greatest of Mexico’s 19th- is the simple fact that Yaxcaba ´ and its neighboring towns century peasant rebellions, and it continues to invite new were not the area of the war’s genesis. Rather, they played avenues of scholarship. The most recent foray into the a far more secondary role than the string of communities Yucatecan past is Rani Alexander’s attempt to bring mate- that stretched from the eastern city of Valladolid southward rial culture to bear on this complicated theme. Her work 
TI - The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
JF - American Anthropologist
DO - 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.521
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-river-runs-black-the-environmental-challenge-to-china-s-future-JM4KTIDWL0
SP - 521
EP - 522
VL - 107
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -