| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries. By Frances Levine. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xxii, 212 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2044-9.)

In Our Prayers Are in This Place, Frances Levine traces the history of the Pecos Pueblo community from the period prior to Spanish incursion, through the eventual decline of the community's population, to the community's abandonment of the village and the continuation of Pecos identity at Jemez Pueblo. Levine is an ethnohistorian and fully appreciates the need to employ archaeology, anthropology, and history to come to terms with her complicated subject. Her book will be of great interest to students of the Native Southwest, but it merits a much wider audience. The questions that Levine asks are fundamental ones, and her study reflects the transition that the field of American Indian history is making from a preoccupation with victimization to a greater emphasis on agency. Levine does not deny the ravages of epidemic and episodic disease, the impact of raids, and the eventual abandonment of the village. At the same time, she shows how identity may persist, even under adverse circumstances. . . .

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