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A Network Analysis of Inka Roads, Administrative Centers, and Storage Facilities
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 655–687.
Published: 01 October 2001
...David Jenkins The purpose of this article is to show how three centrality measures—degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality—can advance the analysis of the Inka road network. It proposes that the Inka built storage facilities and/or administrative centers at regions...
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Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Manuel Medrano; Gary Urton Abstract This article focuses on a linked pair of “documents” from mid-seventeenth-century coastal Peru. The analysis first examines a revisita (an administrative “revisit”) carried out in 1670 in settlements around the town of San Pedro de Corongo, in the lower Santa...
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Numeral Graphic Pluralism in the Colonial Andes
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 135–164.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Gary Urton What was the meaning, for Inca record keepers, of the knotted cord constructions they produced as administrative records for the Inca state? In particular, how did these administrators think about the knot constructions that (as we now understand) were used to sign numerical values...
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Interpreting the History of Native Custom in Oaxaca, Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 135–152.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and the administration of justice in Oaxaca, Mexico. The article begins by situating Oaxaca’s laws within the context of broader neoliberal reforms in Latin America characterized by the promulgation of multicultural constitutions recognizing the legal jurisdiction and cultural autonomy of Indigenous communities. Some...
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The Moving Frontier of British Imperialism in the Lake Rudolf Region: 1890-1919
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 143–172.
Published: 01 January 2006
... involved three separate colonial administrations (Uganda, Sudan, and British East Africa, now Kenya)—became involved in an internal debate. One viewpoint was that, other than denying this harsh and arid region to imperial rivals, it should be left alone. The other side favored “hands on” administration...
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Intermountain students from the class of 1956 boarding a bus to Los Angeles...
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in Testing the Limits of Colonial Parenting: Navajo Domestic Workers, the Intermountain Indian School, and the Urban Relocation Program, 1950–1962
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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 4. Intermountain students from the class of 1956 boarding a bus to Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Record Administration, Pacific Coast Branch, Perris, CA.
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“In Case I Die Where I Am Selected to Be Sent”: Coercion and the Tlaxcalan Resettlement of 1591
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and that many of the settlers were coerced. The resettlement also attended a period of decline in the province and coincided with administrators’ efforts to undermine its privileges and subordinate its people alongside other indios in New Spain. Reconstructing the sociopolitical context and incorporating native...
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The Politics of Devotion: Indigenous Spirituality and the Virgin of Chiquinquirá in the New Kingdom of Granada
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 July 2018
... perpetrated her first miracle in 1586. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, natives had begun to attend the church erected to honor the miraculous image in overwhelming numbers for Corpus Christi and Holy Week. Wills and reports by ecclesiastical administrators suggest that indigenous commoners...
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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
..., it argues that the geographical content, dispersion, and curation of colonial records have served to silence Native pasts. As Portuguese, Spanish, and Jesuit administrators sought possession of this borderland, they overstated the reach of their own settlements and strategically ascribed ethnic labels...
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A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 597–630.
Published: 01 July 2012
... exists in the animating force of camac . The essay shows that Q'enqo and other dual rock art sites materialized aspects of Inka social and spatial divisions. While the Inka state organized the empire into complex and overlapping administrative units, certain rock art sites likely constituted microlevel...
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Writing as Resistance: Maya Graphic Pluralism and Indigenous Elite Strategies for Survival in Colonial Yucatan, 1550-1750
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2010
... both styles of writing, the colonial Maya elite created a system of graphic pluralism that enabled the Maya nobility to better defend their elite interests in a manner consistent with both pre-Columbian and colonial forms of writing, address, religion, and government administration. American Society...
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Indigenous State Making on the Frontier: Arhuaco Politics in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 1900–1920
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 301–325.
Published: 01 April 2016
... into being. This case study contributes to the literature about popular and in particular indigenous politics by considering an instance of state formation in a frontier region where the institutional presence of the central administration was sparse. Without external provocation, some Arhuacos invited...
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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
...) was consistently entangled with colonial reconnaissance and administration. The work of Robert H. Schomburgk and William Hilhouse in British Guiana receives close scrutiny. Particular efforts are made to show the ways that their hybrid expeditions—hybrid in the composition of the exploring party itself, as well...
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The Spanish Attempt to Tribalize the Darién, 1735-50
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 281–317.
Published: 01 April 2002
... forced to create new ways of ruling on the ground as they navigated through an evolving colonial world in the Darién. This world was clearly built upon indigenous models, though it was not exactly indigenous. And though it drew upon European administrative forms and symbols for a good portion of its...
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The Xicaque before Spanish Rule in Leán y Mulia, Honduras
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 47–62.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Roberto E. Rivera Abstract In the late seventeenth century the Spanish colonial administration began to issue decrees that sought to implement the familiar colonial policies of entrada , reducción , and misión within an unconquered region of the Province of Honduras called by the Spanish Leán y...
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Dena'ina Resistance to Russian Hegemony, Late Eighteenth and Ninetenth Centuries: Cook Inlet, Alaska
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 485–504.
Published: 01 July 2013
... critical of RAC administrative decisions, suggesting far more could have been done to further the interests of Russia in Alaska. Less attention has been given to the agentive actions of the Tlingit, Ahtna, Alutiiq, and Dena'ina in controlling the Russian occupiers and minimizing European hegemony. Three...
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“For the Last Time, Once and for All”: Indians, Violence, and Local Authority in the Colonial City, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1587–1628
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2016
... about Indians, violence, and the nature of colonial hegemony in urban centers. It argues that the proliferation and pervasiveness of this type of indigenous violence in cities—generally considered Spanish administrative and demographic strongholds—underscore the spaces for negotiation, flexibility...
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Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography of Colonialism in the Gusii Highlands of British-Ruled Kenya
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 491–523.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Timothy Parsons In an effort to generate labor, protect European settler interests, and rationalize administration, the Kenyan imperial regime sought to impose a new ethnic geography on the African majority that confined communities to specific “native reserves” based on their supposed ethnicity...
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Mixed Communities in the Russian North; Or, Why Are There No “Creoles” In Siberia?
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 419–438.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Peter P. Schweitzer; Evgeniy V. Golovko; Nikolai B. Vakhtin This article deals with “Old-Settler” communities in northeastern Siberia that were founded by Russian settlers in the course of the seventeenth century. Left to their own devices by a distant colonial administration, many of them married...
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Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post–Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 149–173.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Brendan J. M. Weaver Abstract The implementation of the Velasco administration’s agrarian reforms in the 1970s transformed Peru’s rural landscape and the ways in which communities relate to the physical reminders of the time of the haciendas. Community engagement during recent archaeological...
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