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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 399–422.
Published: 01 April 2000
...William Balée Traditional ethnobiological knowledge ( tek ) in Amazonia can be elucidated by comparative study within a language family. Some of this tek has been more resistant to change than certain elements from other cultural domains, such as kinship and politics. Although much tek has been...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Loretta A. Cormier Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. viii + 340 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, figures, references, index...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 450–453.
Published: 01 April 2004
... E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan, eds. Pp. 259–68. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Edited by Neil L. Whitehead. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xxi + 236 pp., introduction, bibliography, contributors, index, 2...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 701–705.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xv + 408 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $68.00 cloth.) Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 433–438.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... Neves on Amazonia, Carl Henrik Lange- baek on Colombian metallurgy, and Cristóbal Gnecco on archaeology and historical multivocality. These contributions exemplify emerging applica- tions of structuralism, historical ecology, ethnographic analogy, and criti- cal theory to distinct cases and contexts...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 January 2018
... for extended periods. . . . We now know that the emergence, revitalization and decline of indigenous cultures during the colonial period compel us to give up this idea forever.” Historians and anthropologists of a certain age will recall that Amazonia was where you went to study native people who were...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Christine Mathias Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia . By Vilaça Aparecida . Translated by Rodgers David . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . xvii + 370 pp., acknowledgments, orthography, introduction, maps, illustrations...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 525–532.
Published: 01 July 2011
....) Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia . By Dean Bartholomew . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2009 . xvii + 324 pp., introduction, figures, notes, bibliography, index . $69.95 cloth.) Editing Eden: A Reconsideration of Identity, Politics, and Place...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 January 2012
... to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropological and historical scholarship on Amazonia, ranging from shamanic attack to marriage alliances. The paper explores this history...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 257–291.
Published: 01 April 2004
... ethnic entities to create, at its height (c. 1800), a dominant regional polity, itself linked to wider cross-ethnic macropolities under a single leader. New data are offered to support the thesis that such formations, which coevally existed elsewhere in Amazonia,were not just a response to new...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Robert Wasserstrom Yet Nugent’s arguments also have a musty feel. Since the 1990s, few serious researchers would claim that Amazonia represents an anachronistic, out-of-date backwater. That conceit now belongs almost exclusively to tourism operators, feature writers, and development agencies...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 525–548.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Sociedad y economía en el espacio cauchero ecuatoriano de la cuenca del Río Napo, 1870–1930 . In Fronteras, colonización, y mano de obra indígena: Amazonía Andina (siglos IXI–XX) . Jordán Pilar García , ed. Pp. 127 – 238 . Lima : Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú . Barnham Bradford L...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 689–714.
Published: 01 October 2006
... franciscanos , no. 49 , itinerario 13 : 111 -32. Brown, Michael 1993 Facing the State, Facing the World: Amazonia's Native Leaders and the New Politics of Identity. L'homme 33 ( 204 ): 307 -26. Carvalho, Silvia M. Schmuziger 1992 Chaco: Encruzilhada de povos e “melting pot” cultural: Suas...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Christine Hunefeldt; Valerie Saiag Regarding widespread assumptions that indigenous spirituality is incompatible with the Christian Bible or that missionaries brought God to Amazonia, Nayap tells Brown that “there is no lie bigger than this. We lived with God. We had God. God was with us...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 163–185.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Andrews. 2004 The Gathering of the Clans: The Making of the Palikur Naoné. Ethno- history 51: 257–88. Raffles, Hugh 2002 In Amazonia: A Natural History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Rostain, S. 1994 L’occupation Amérindienne ancienne du...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., villages, and riverbank settlements. A regional culture and society had grown out of the conflicted interactions of the past. This was riverine Amazonia, a third space that emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century. Different kinds of Amerindian spaces lay in the hinterland on one side...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 409–418.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... Neves on Amazonia, Carl Henrik Lange- baek on Colombian metallurgy, and Cristóbal Gnecco on archaeology and historical multivocality. These contributions exemplify emerging applica- tions of structuralism, historical ecology, ethnographic analogy, and criti- cal theory to distinct cases and contexts...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 419–431.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... Neves on Amazonia, Carl Henrik Lange- baek on Colombian metallurgy, and Cristóbal Gnecco on archaeology and historical multivocality. These contributions exemplify emerging applica- tions of structuralism, historical ecology, ethnographic analogy, and criti- cal theory to distinct cases and contexts...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 597–620.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and Beads as Items of Ceremonial Exchange in Amazonia and the Caribbean .” Antropologica 67 : 33 – 54 . Brommer Bea , et al. , eds. 2011 . De oude WIC 1621–1674 . Vol. 1 of Grote Atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie . Voorburg : Asia Maior . Chapuis Jean . 2006...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 421–444.
Published: 01 July 2011
... political discourse. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 References Barclay Frederica 1998 Sociedad y economía en el espacio cauchero ecuatoriano de la cuenca del Río Napo, 1870–1930 . In Fronteras, colonización y mano de obra indígena, Amazonía Andina (siglos IX–XX...