School for Advanced Research

Imprisoned art, complex patronage; Plains drawings by Howling Wolf and Zotom at the Autry National Center.

Szabo (art history, U. of New Mexico) has produced a complete analysis of the circumstances behind the drawings as well as their content, discussing in an initial essay who made drawings at Fort Marion and why. The collector Eva Scott and collecting of native American drawings are discussed in a lengthy second chapter before Szabo turns to the in-depth treatment of the drawing books produced by Howling Wolf and Zotom. The volume is published in an oversized format (8.5x10 inches) and features color plates of excellent quality. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Remapping Bolivia; resources, territory, and indigeneity in a plurinational state.

Anthropologists and other social scientists examine the rapidly changing historical moment in Bolivia signaled by the 2005 election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous national president in the Americas. They focus on the emerging cultural politics of territoriality and indigeneity in relation to state change and globalized struggles over the country's natural resources. Among the topics are the domestication of indigenous autonomies from the Pact of Unity to the New Constitution, hygiene panic and urban space in Santa Cruz, and Guaraní autonomies and their Others. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)