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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
... Velandia on the San Agustín culture, Eduardo G. 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...
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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 (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 (2018) 65 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Robert Wasserstrom Cipolletti takes on a foundational belief that persists today among many anthropologists and travel writers: timelessness. Researchers often have suggested that indigenous settlement in Amazonia followed a predictable pattern: stronger groups controlled the major rivers...
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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 (2024) 71 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and Caraparaná Rivers in 1899 marked the conquest and colonization of the Murui-Muina nation and their ancestral lands. This essay examines the escape of Murui-Muina clans from Casa Arana and the ethnogenesis of a new kind of Murui-Muina society in the municipality of Leguízamo, in Colombian Amazonia, where...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
... more about the Peruvian rubber boom than Fernando Santos-Granero. His 1999 book Tamed Frontiers: Economy, Society, and Civil Rights In Upper Amazonia (written with Frederica Barclay) should be on everybody’s reading list. In Slavery and Utopia , he tells this complex story through the remarkable...
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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
...) the World. Ethnos 71 : 21 -32. Hugh-Jones, Christine 1979 From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Iaparrá, Moises 1996 The Raiders in Historical Narrative Texts in the Palikur Language . H. Green and D. M. Green...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... : Cejup . Boer Warren de . 1981 . “ Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia: An Ethnohistorical Approach .” American Antiquity 46 , no. 2 : 364 – 77 . Boer Warren de . 2013 . “ Deep Time and Big Space: An Archaeologist Skirts the Topic at Hand .” In Ethnicity...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 409–418.
Published: 01 April 2006
... directions in Latin American archaeology, with chapters by César Velandia on the San Agustín culture, Eduardo G. Neves on Amazonia, Carl Henrik Lange- baek on Colombian metallurgy, and Cristóbal Gnecco on archaeology and historical multivocality. These contributions exemplify emerging applica- tions...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 419–431.
Published: 01 April 2006
... Velandia on the San Agustín culture, Eduardo G. 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...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 597–620.
Published: 01 October 2018
... also Espelt-Bombin, “Frontier Politics,” 81. Amazonia French Guiana Aruã Galibi frontier Located between Amazonia and the Guianas, the disputed territories of Amapá (Brazil) and eastern French Guiana, which until 1900 had been claimed both by Portugal/Brazil and France, have been...
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