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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 830–834.
Published: 01 October 2004
...: University of Oregon Books. Reprinted 1990, Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. Ruby, Robert H. 1996 John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Ruby, Robert H., and John A. Brown 1965 Half-Sun on the Columbia: A Biography of Chief Moses...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 589–633.
Published: 01 July 2005
...-cultural mediation and understanding. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Queequeg’s Tomahawk:
A Cultural Biography, 1750–1900
TimothyJ.Shannon,Gettysburg College
Abstract. Since the colonial era, the tomahawk has served as a symbol of Indian
savagery in American arts and literature...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 331–334.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Jill Doerfler Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Review Essay
Recent Works in North American
Biography and Ethnography
Jill Doerfler,University of Illinois
William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader.
By Theresa M. Schenck...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Michele M. Stephens Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Newman Elizabeth Terese . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . vii + 255 pp., introduction, illustrations, appendix, glossary...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 471–496.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Emily J. Macgillivray Abstract Anishinaabe women in the nineteenth-century upper Great Lakes inherited responsibilities through their doodem (clan), which included incorporating newcomers into their networks and caring for lands and waterways. Employing biography, this article focuses...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 421–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of nontraditional sources of information. The article is based largely on access to a family archive that provides a counternarrative to the usual biography of Topinabee and allows for a fuller understanding of him as a leader and a person. I thank the past and present editors of this journal, Robbie Ethridge...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 489–515.
Published: 01 July 2018
... to 1826 in letters, newspapers, accounts, and journals—enigmatic and often thorny sources that touch on matters of violence and cannibalism—one can see the difficulties and the possibilities of anthropologically infused ethnohistory and socio-biography emerge. During a period of enormous change...
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Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 553–578.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Ben Fallaw This political biography explores the ambiguous ethnicity of Bartolomé García Correa (1893-1978), the first person of Maya descent to govern Yucatán since the Spanish Conquest. Son of an upwardly mobile, Maya-speaking, afromestizo middle-class family, García Correa's normal education...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2022
... Vérendrye Nêhiyawak biography In the last weeks of the summer of 1741, an expedition of two hundred Nêhiyaw, Monsoni, and Nakoda warriors invaded the pays des Sioux , or “Sioux Country,” the homeland of the eastern Dakota oyátes (peoples)—Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Whapekute. The Monsoni...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 429–433.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Charles Golden American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Three Visions of the Maya, Three Visions of
Mayanists: Maudslay, Proskouriakoff, and Schele
Charles Golden, University of Pennsylvania
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography. By Ian Graham. (Norman:
University of Oklahoma...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 April 2020
... classes. However, readers looking for a strict biography of Beard will need to adjust their expectations. Each chapter tacks back and forth between the past and present, weaving together the stories of Dewey Beard with those of his modern-day relatives and friends who tell his story. While ultimately...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 754–755.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and engaging style are a model for using biography to tell a grander story, one that sheds light on American Indians’ myriad experiences in the early United States. Professional Indian opens with Williams on a train in 1851. Williams there meets his eventual biographer, Reverend John Holloway Hanson...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 385–386.
Published: 01 April 2015
... among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman is an unusual
biography. In a genre that so often focuses on the lives of politically sig-
nificant “great men” (and occasionally women), we rarely learn of the lives
of the marginalized, but this is exactly what historian Dawn G. Marsh has
attempted...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 October 2002
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ture begin to appear in hagiographic writings. The middle three chapters
focus on the individual and collective biographies and stories of the nuns
and their convents. The second chapter looks at the foundation of the Car...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 551–552.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in the genre of presidential or Founding Father biography. As the title suggests, George Washington is the vehicle through which the author aims to persuade these readers to think deeply about Native peoples and their role in shaping the history of the United States. Calloway’s work still demonstrates...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the African places of origin and the family relations among the slaves he had lost to the invaders. This biography of Kingsley complements the author’s previous study of Kingsley’s wife, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley. Adding Daniel W. Stowell’s recent anthology of Kingsley’s writings ( Balancing Evils...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 401–402.
Published: 01 April 2003
... growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation and
her familiar relationships. Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter is another
work of family biography, primarily chronicling the lives of Red Shirt’s
Great Grandmother, Turtle Lung Woman...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in the informal and formal economy, including a multiyear commission for the main altarpiece of the Augustinian church in Riobamba. The book’s second section focuses on the artists themselves. In addition to reinstating the names and biographies of Andean painters previously lost to history, Webster makes...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in the transatlantic world. It is natural,
then, that she applies this same perspective in this innovative biography of
the Precursor of Independence, Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), who
is one of Spanish America’s most fascinating and most enigmatic charac-
ters. Born in Venezuela, engaged in a military career...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 834–836.
Published: 01 October 2004
... was. Biography is
Stocking’s entree to the anthropology of the Cold War Years (1945–73)—
his larger project in progress.
There is much to ponder here, and readers will easily think of addi-
tional cases that might have been considered in the same frame. The rela-
tion between disciplinary centre...
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