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in Between the Lof and the Liberators: Mapuche Authority in Chile’s G uerra a Muerte (1819–1825)
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Published: 01 January 2019
Figure 1. Map of South America, by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1839 . From Mitchell’s 1839 “Map of South America,” copyright © 2000 by Cartography Associates, modified by author to focus on Chile and the Río de la Plata and converted to grayscale.
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Native Religions and the Cultures of North and South America
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 840–842.
Published: 01 October 2004
... of North and South America. Edited by
Lawrence E. Sullivan. (New York: Continuum Publishing, 2002, 330 pp.,
introduction, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.)
Stephen D. Glazier, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
This welcome volume consists of eleven chapters written by ten...
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Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Brett Rushforth Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America . By John M. Monteiro , edited and translated by James Woodard and Barbara Weinstein . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xxxii +290...
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Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949; Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 759–763.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of the most fascinating corners of the Atlantic world.
doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-052
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano
Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949. By Erick D. Langer.
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 375 pp., acknowledg...
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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 354–355.
Published: 01 April 2010
... correlates of ethnicity. Katharina Schreiber examines colo-
nies of the Wari Empire of ancient Peru (an empire that existed between
about 750 and 1000 CE, predating the Inca Empire by several centuries) in
two regions—the central highland and south coast—of this part of South
America. Using...
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The Arts of South America, 1492–1850
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 432–433.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Elena FitzPatrick Sifford The Arts of South America, 1492–1850 . Edited by Pierce Donna . ( Denver, CO : Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum , 2010 . x + 224 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, maps, images . $39.95 paper.) Copyright...
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Formal and Informal Alliances between Iberians and Natives in the Heart of Late Eighteenth-Century South America
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 65–93.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of the 1750 Treaty of Madrid and the 1777 Treaty of San Ildefonso, when the Spanish and Portuguese advanced over the heart of South America. Concentrating on the last decades of the eighteenth century, when the Iberian powers negotiated with Indigenous peoples to attract them to their side, this article...
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Quirípas and Mostacillas: The Evolution of Shell Beads as a Medium of Exchange in Northern South America
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 581–609.
Published: 01 October 2000
... desarrollo de sociedades complejas en el nororiente de Colombia y norte de Venezuela . Bogotá: Uniandes. Lathrap, Donald 1973 The Antiquity and Importance of Long-Distance Trade Relationships in the Moist Tropics of Pre-Columbian South America. World Archaeology 5 : 170 -86. López Pequeira...
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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 3, pts. 1 and 2: South America
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 761–765.
Published: 01 October 2003
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1 and 2: South America. Edited by Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz.
(Cambridge, u.k.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 1054 pp., xiv +
976 pp., introduction, photographs, illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliog...
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Kandire in Real Time and Space: Sixteenth-Century Expeditions from the Pantanal to the Andes
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Catherine Julien Anthropological understandings of past relations between peoples in the interior of South America have been constructed from limited readings of the historical sources. A case in point: the linkage of a hypothesis about the westward migration of Guaraní speakers in search...
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The Making of Regional Systems: The Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá Regions in the Lower Brazilian Amazon, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Mark Harris Abstract Building on Neil Whitehead’s work in northern South America, this article considers the formations of two different deep-forest regional networks. Though these Amerindian spaces have origins in the precolonial past, this article analyses their shaping in the seventeenth...
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Between the Lof and the Liberators: Mapuche Authority in Chile’s G uerra a Muerte (1819–1825)
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Figure 1. Map of South America, by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1839 . From Mitchell’s 1839 “Map of South America,” copyright © 2000 by Cartography Associates, modified by author to focus on Chile and the Río de la Plata and converted to grayscale. ...
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Across Archival Limits: Colonial Records, Changing Ethnonyms, and Geographies of Knowledge
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 249–273.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey A. Erbig, Jr.; Sergio Latini Abstract This article examines relationships between archival records produced in borderland spaces and the histories of autonomous (non-subjugated and non-missionized) Indigenous peoples. Focusing on the Banda Oriental region of Southeastern South America...
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To What Extent Were Amazon Women Facts, Real or Imagined, of Native Americans?
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Astrid Steverlynck This article examines the role of amazon women during the first centuries of European exploration in lowland South America by analyzing the accounts produced by conquistadors, missionaries, and explorers from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The accounts are analyzed...
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Revisiting Cultivated Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Daily Life in the Guaraní Missions
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Julia Sarreal Both the Crown and Catholic missionaries believed that frontier Indians needed to practice settled agriculture and animal husbandry in order to become civilized. For over a century Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní Indians of South America tried to Europeanize mission inhabitants...
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Shamans in the Colonial Frontier Zone: Spirit Mastery in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Ecuador
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Rachel Corr Abstract The aim of this article is to advance our knowledge of past shamanic practices in northwestern South America through an analysis of colonial-era criminal cases of people accused of using “superstitious” healing practices. A reading of three cases from late eighteenth-century...
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Escaping from Casa Arana: The Murui-Muina Nation after the Amazon Rubber Boom
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Oscar Aponte Abstract The Amazon rubber boom (1850–1930) devastated Indigenous nations that had remained for centuries at the borders of European empires and the nation-states that replaced them in South America. The arrival of the Peruvian rubber company Casa Arana to the Igaraparaná...
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“It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians”: Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 3–40.
Published: 01 January 2002
...D. Graham Burnett An effort is made to reveal the multiple functions of early nineteenth-century geographic expeditions into the interior of lowland South America, with an emphasis on the subtle and pervasive ways that“scientific” knowledge (natural historical, gregraphic,ethnographic...
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in The Feast of the Nazarene of Caguach: Religious Identity, Geography, and Community in the Archipelago of Chiloé
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 1. Chiloé and parts of the adjacent coasts from HMS Beagle , 1835. In Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing Their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America and the Beagle ’s
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The Settlement of the Americas
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... This book is not about the Ameri-
cas as a whole. It focuses specifically on early humans in South America
with virtually no treatment of Paleoindian occupation in either North or
Central America. The logic seems to be that settlement of the Americas
was not complete until South America was inhabited...
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