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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 420–422.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World. By Andrés Pérez de Ribas [1645]. Translated by Daniel T. Reff, Maureen Ahern, and Richard K. Danford. Annotations and introduction by Daniel T. Reff. (Tucson: University...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 January 2015
... understanding of the difference between pernicious and innocuous forms of barbarism. Although both forms of barbarism are grounded in deficiencies, these texts laud the inherent goodness and perfectibility of the peoples who were subsequently called Indians , in contradistinction to the ferocity, cunning...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 July 2014
... the book, she unpacks the meaning of violence in a truly raw, graphic manner. This book is not for the faint of heart, but I concur with her that more sanitized renderings are an injustice to those who have experi- enced it. Civil war–era state barbarism used youth as fodder for its dark ambitions...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 January 2015
... such as Tahiti, where Bougainville manipulated images of the Tahitians into simple natives living in a tropical paradise and even made clear distinctions between these new friends of France and the barbaric Iroquois of Canada. Marxist historians will notice the distinct absence of the common sol...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
... for Ethnohistory 2019 In 1915 an Indigenous leader named Juan Carlos Tasorentsi and several thousand followers laid waste to rubber estates across a large swathe of Peru’s Selva Central rainforest. Conservative journalists quickly defaulted to the civilization-versus-barbarism trope, but other writers were...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 653–682.
Published: 01 October 2011
... scene thus communicates identity in terms of civiliza- tion and barbarism: Spanish and Indian conquistadors living within the boundaries of civilization at the center, versus the dangerous and threat- ening Indians of the periphery—the barbarians outside. The trope of civili- zation...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... accusations of cannibalism. He described “wild and insatiable carnage,” which resulted when settlers were “attacked, killed, and devoured by the barbarous, anthropophagous, heathen Botocudo.” In 1806 the captaincy’s highest fiscal board, under the governor’s direction, submitted a report to Lisbon fulminating...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 259–278.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the behavior of young warriors, Creek headmen challenged European claims of superiority that rested on constructions of Indigenous male behavior as barbaric or violent. This allowed for the reinforcement of Indigenous notions of masculinity in ways that safeguarded their positions of power while serving...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 525–552.
Published: 01 October 2008
... “civilization” versus Indian “barbarism.” Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, as sporadic warfare continued, commentators in Yucatán and elsewhere in Mexico declared the necessity to defeat the rebels militarily, in order, in the words of one, to “end the anachronistic state of things that keeps part of our...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2020
... are no longer on view, the gendered imaging of the triumph of civilization over barbarism remains prevalent today inside the Rotunda. I suspect that modern visitors instinctively grasp that the violent “Indian” is a figure from the distant past—historical, elusive, harmless, possibly even fictional—while...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 733–739.
Published: 01 October 2009
... professionals, who found their progressive beliefs about healing challenged by those advocated by Andean healers practicing “traditional” medicine, mounted an effort to discredit indigenous healers by presenting their practices as “ineffective, barbarous, or simply based on trickery” (31...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 July 2024
... territory” suggests the chief presents his status as analogous to a head of state. Furthermore, the chief’s invocation of notions of civilization and barbarism to underline Nicaragua’s Otherness presents an inversion of a strategy which Nicaragua repeatedly directed against Mosquito Indians: “My people...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2020
... Henry Harrison espoused his belief that American Indians were barbarous “savages” that destroyed the more “civilized” Mound Builder people. Harrison came to this conclusion by comparing the built indigenous landscapes of the Ohio River Valley, including important sites such as Chillicothe, Circleville...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 87–121.
Published: 01 April 2001
... pas- toralism was a barbaric, even embarrassing way of life. Colonialists were embarrassed trying to explain to the metropole why this ‘‘primitivism’’ was giving them so much trouble. Surely there was something they could do...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 537–547.
Published: 01 October 2018
... through exchange, war, movement, and marriage; (2) the making of defiant spaces and the practices of territorialization, configuring and making political spaces and regional alliances and enemies; (3) the practices of imagining spaces in terms of both barbarity (cannibal societies) and riches (e.g., El...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
..., and eroded tax revenues, they had also dared to perpetrate ‘‘the most horrible and atrocious scenes of the most barbarous cannibalism read the declaration. They had ‘‘assassi- nated’’ Portuguese and ‘‘tame Indians’’ alike. They had opened wounds in their victims and had drunk their blood; they had...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 561–583.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the security of the hills. In his ˜rst report from the ˜eld to the viceroy, on 1 September, Padrés argued that a more respectable force had to be moved into the town to restrain the “barbarous Indians But reinforcements would have to wait. It had been only the day before that Veracruz had received its...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 641–643.
Published: 01 July 2012
... is to explain how the inventive and pro- ductive use of Mesoamerican myth by Chicana/o indigenists has sought to mobilize, in her view, a cherished version of self that opposed the image of the barbaric other imposed on the Chicano construct from within European and Anglo-American epistemic traditions...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 July 2012
... is to explain how the inventive and pro- ductive use of Mesoamerican myth by Chicana/o indigenists has sought to mobilize, in her view, a cherished version of self that opposed the image of the barbaric other imposed on the Chicano construct from within European and Anglo-American epistemic traditions...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 645–646.
Published: 01 July 2012
... is to explain how the inventive and pro- ductive use of Mesoamerican myth by Chicana/o indigenists has sought to mobilize, in her view, a cherished version of self that opposed the image of the barbaric other imposed on the Chicano construct from within European and Anglo-American epistemic traditions...