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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 229–261.
Published: 01 April 2011
... changes in cultural identity, social space, communication, social relations, decision making, policy, and many other aspects of Arapaho life. While this study does not purport to be comprehensive for the context at hand, it does aim to open suggestive paths for ethnohistorical investigations of time...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 525–552.
Published: 01 October 2008
... mediated these transformations and was reshaped by them. Local gentry worked as cultural and political brokers, joining forces with state officials in remaking Yucatán as a “modern” and “civilized” state through infrastructural improvements and education aimed at transforming largely indigenous, rural...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 165–173.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of Andean civilization. This essay explores how each author's claims about writing and knotted strings—qillqa and khipu—were intrinsic to their political and theological aims, fitting into a larger discourse about the justification of colonial rule. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Acosta...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 389–414.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Shannon Lee Dawdy Using new archaeological data and colonial narratives, I reconstruct the menu of French colonial Louisiana with the aim of showing how the sensual and social experience of eating relates to the political rationalities of colonialism. In Louisiana, food practices enunciated...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 359–392.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the household, while revealing persistent tensions between alliance and autonomy. Moreover, the stories of the battle and its aftermath provide insights into Coast Salish protocols for enacting justice and resolving conflict. This article aims to demonstrate the utility of oral histories for contributing...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 303–328.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., such as water, mountains, or rain, which in Indigenous mythology and religion represented powerful entities with which people interacted continuously. These transcultural practices came into conflict with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic reform policies that aimed to “civilize” the local...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of early travelers to the lake pursued objectives such as hunting, scientific inquiry, and furthering the aims of colonial powers, they also frequently derived self-satisfaction from having “reached” this iconic geographic space. An examination of some of these travelers' experiences reveals the centrality...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 143–172.
Published: 01 January 2006
... with the aim of “developing” the area. The debate persisted and was unresolved at the end of British rule in the early 1960s. American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 The Moving Frontier of British Imperialism
in the Lake Rudolf Region: 1890–1919
James Barber, Cambridge University
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 51–73.
Published: 01 January 2018
... based on a crucial legal campaign led by Indian leaders of El Cercado in 1735 Lima aimed at substituting Spanish protectores de naturales for indigenous ones. The long-awaited legal victory of El Cercado’s native authorities demonstrates that the “República de indios” was shaped legally from below...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 July 2019
... geográficas (RG) manuscripts. As a methodological intervention, the principal aim is to draw out the relatively understudied Indigenous knowledges and practices found throughout the corpus. The first section of the essay outlines the conceptual framework of technologies and contextualizes the RG survey...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Jennifer Bess While Akimel O'odham agricultural identity is one cornerstone of this study of petitions sent to the federal government, the study's aims include an analysis of the petitions in terms of how their form and content reenact the values of cooperation and cocreation embodied in Akimel...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
... primarily seized captives to use them as laborers. A premeditated intention to capture enemies for adoption was seldom (if ever) the primary motivation for Comanche raids, which were fundamentally aimed at obtaining horses. These findings raise critical questions concerning widely accepted interpretations...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 39–60.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Michele M. Stephens In the decades following Mexican Independence, indigenous groups experienced the dramatic upheavals wrought by political chaos. In the last half of the century, liberal politicians created a series of reforms that aimed to modernize Mexico. This article examines the reactions...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 195–216.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Mario Schmidt The article aims at analyzing the monetary system of the Dutch colony New Netherland. It first carves out the formal structure of the colony's currency system and then goes on to show that the liberalization of New Netherland's economy exacerbated contradictions lurking inside...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 493–509.
Published: 01 October 2022
... reforms were broad-ranging and analyzed by contemporary scholars. However, we know little about Indigenous communities’ opinions concerning those transformations. This essay aims to review some of the ideas expressed by Indigenous intellectuals who sought to maintain the school as an exclusively “Indian...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 167–185.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of evaluating past actions but also with the aim of creating better relations for the future. This article offers a brief account of biculturalism and “treaty partnership” in three overlapping modes: as an emergent and then hegemonic political discourse; as generating a new historiography; and in terms...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 July 2016
... to converge on an idea about Kiowa origins. These new data correlate with a number of recent findings and underlie a working hypothesis that aims to stimulate new discussion and inquiry into possible protohistoric Kiowa origins, movements, and ethnogenesis. Mitochondrial DNA also suggests insights...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 645–669.
Published: 01 October 2016
... relations in contrast to the commonplace view of perennial conflict between the societies, as given in secondary literature, and aims to provide an alternative reading of this particular ethnohistory. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Comcáac Seris Sonora trust interethnic...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 517–548.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the eleventh century. Based on human geography, this article aims to take a step forward and test this proposal by developing the migration routes that the Aztec-Mexica and the eight peoples that walked with them, according to the Tira de la peregrinación , might have followed. From the analysis carried out...
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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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