In the twenty-first-century world of interdisciplinary scholarship, many aim to make an impact not only within their own disciplines but also beyond them. So, this porous interdiscipline of ethnohistory seems a likely vantage point for witnessing how insights sail beyond the shores of our own harbors. The article I share here, Michael Harkin’s (2003) “Feeling and Thinking in Memory and Forgetting: Toward an Ethnohistory of the Emotions,” is one that has sailed forth to offer important insights for interdisciplinary scholars of cross-cultural historical currents, dialogues, and events. Anyone peering over my shoulder as I searched Google Scholar would likely notice, as I did, the far-flung places where Professor Harkin’s ideas about the subjective and emotional experiences of the past have found purchase.
It is not surprising that his colleagues within Northwest Coast or Native North American studies concur with his oft-cited assertion that “emotion is a particularly relevant...
