Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 701 Search Results for
autonomy
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 352–353.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Silver Moon Developing Zapatista Autonomy: Conflict and NGO Involvement in Rebel Chiapas . By Barmeyer Niels . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . xxvi + 282 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 July 2007
...John P. Bowes Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900. By Andrew Denson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi + 327 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 January 2013
...John F. Schwaller Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico . By Díaz Mónica . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . xii + 229 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $55.00 cloth...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 369–397.
Published: 01 April 2000
... of a distinct African Jamaican society. The rigidly de.ned linear housing arrangements initially established by the planter, and their relations to the Great House, sugar works, and .elds, were reinterpreted by the enslaved residents of the village to create a degree of autonomy and freedom from constant...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 579–607.
Published: 01 October 2008
... power. As such, marketplaces were critical both to elite efforts to mold the economy, society, and politics to their ideals and to Mayan efforts to carve out spaces of autonomy. At the same time, some Mayan women used the very institutions and laws that criminalized vendors' behavior to press...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 137–170.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Elizabeth Furniss The nature of indigenous band societies is examined through an analysis of the historical dynamics of sociopolitical organization among the Secwepemc of the northern Plateau. Secwepemc history is characterized by recurrent tensions between the autonomy of extended family groups...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Marcela Mendoza The Western Toba and other hunter-gatherers of the South American Gran Chaco managed to retain a certain degree of political autonomy well into the nineteenth century. Between 1915 and 1918, Western Toba, Wichí, and Pilagá warriors formed alliances to expel Argentine and Bolivian...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of decline and indicates escribanos, indigenous male officials, acknowledged and fostered women’s status and autonomy. Another cacica in 1712 legally obligated herself to pay her deceased husband’s debt in Jilotepec to a cofradía , or religious sodality, a lay organization that was commonly organized...
FIGURES
| View All (8)
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 597–620.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., Palikur, and Galibi. Rather than a refuge zone, this space remained central to Amerindian life and to the upholding of indigenous autonomy due to the maintenance of inter- and intra-ethnic connections and the regular use of routes across this space. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 647–670.
Published: 01 October 2018
... indigenous groups in the interior spaces of Brazil, the Kadiwéu used these strategies to defend their autonomy and territory during a century of challenges. The same authors reveal, however, that Kadiwéu armed resistance was hardly a vestige of the past. In the 1890s, Brazilian settlers and traders still...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 21–47.
Published: 01 January 2019
... on the theme of persistence through a case study investigating the various ways indigenous people, including Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo individuals, worked against and within colonial systems to maintain residency and autonomy in their ancestral homelands in central California. Focusing on the Tomales Bay...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870–1911
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 729–750.
Published: 01 October 2015
..., and the geographic mobility and isolation of many Native American communities. Understanding how, where, and why national census takers and Indian agents failed to overcome these challenges sheds light on the locality of federal power and the pathways through which Native Americans maintained their autonomy...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 241–261.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Evan Nooe Through the 1700s and early 1800s, Creek nationalism had the potential to both assert political autonomy and devolve into catastrophe. Projected externally, Creek nationalism engaged Euro-Americans and afforded room for local negotiation among towns and clans. However, the nationalist...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the experiences and actions of collective agents who transformed their warfare practices and social alliances in order to fight for their autonomy and survival. The Copiapó people transformed from a society characterized by low-scale intermittent warfare to one that employed an intensive mode of conflict...
FIGURES
Journal Article
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...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to restore the autonomy granted to them under the Treaty of Managua (1860). Mosquito appeals for British support drew on notions of shared Anglo culture owing to their long historical association with the British and their conversion to Protestant Christianity from the 1840s. The discussion of Mosquito...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 385–404.
Published: 01 July 2023
... life by behaving in dishonorable ways. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 citizenship autonomy vagrancy costumbres Oaxaca In 1848, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ceding half of its territory to the United States...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., Crandall effectively argues that Indigenous communities were always electorates who adapted colonial political institutions to their own ends. Indigenous responses to political incorporation varied, but across time, space, and distinctive cultures the autonomy of the local community remained central...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 247–267.
Published: 01 April 2018
... another logic: they wanted the Supreme Court to enforce the law of the land by suspending it. The court should restore the legal autonomy of the Cherokee nation in relation to the state of Georgia by deciding that federal law not only precluded the enactment of state law but also allowed the law...
1
