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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 433–436.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of how and why such a conceptual system has survived
over five centuries of European domination.
6631 ETHNOHISTORY 49:2 / sheet 213 of 256
Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century
Brazilian...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Simone Athayde; Marianne Schmink Indigenous peoples have been active players in the process of securing land rights and conserving about 21 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. In this article, we examine advances and contradictions in the process of “adaptive resistance” by Amazonian indigenous...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 537–547.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... The articles here reexamine areas that have been considered peripheral in Brazilian historiography, placing the emphasis on indigenous history and society. These spaces proved surprisingly impervious to the imposition of external authority, but each space has its own history that cannot be solely defined...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 597–620.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Silvia Espelt-Bombin Abstract This article focuses on the geographical space between the Amazon delta and the Maroni River (nowadays Brazilian Amapá and French Guiana) in 1600–1730. An imperial frontier between France and Portugal South American possessions, it has been conceptualized as a refuge...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Doce . Governador Valadares : Univale . Forsyth Donald W. 1985 . “ Three Cheers for Hans Staden: The Case for Brazilian Cannibalism .” Ethnohistory 32 , no. 1 : 17 – 36 . Hemming John . 1987 . Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... the Trombetas or Nhamundá. Rather, the previous connections between the deep forest and villages were broken. These lower parts came to be filled with Indian and Brazilian families seeking good land outside of the missions and, from 1757 onward, by state-administered villages, escaped slave communities...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Luso-Afro-Brazilian society presented Indians with diverse opportunities to impede expansion. They did so by understanding their adversary's culture and translating that understanding into acts orchestrated to achieve the greatest possible effect. As such, armed conflict did not represent the cessation...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 381–401.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Suzanne Oakdale This article explores a mode of historical consciousness constructed through mortuary rituals among a Brazilian Amazonian people. Paradoxically,the process of forgetting is argued to be crucial for this type of historical consciousness. The dual focus on historical consciousness...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 703–714.
Published: 01 July 2002
... (Brazil)
6698 Ethnohistory / 49:3 / sheet 231 of 252
The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil. By Darcy
Ribeiro. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. (Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2000. xviii + 334 pp...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 604–606.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in
Brazil synchronously express their Jewish and Brazilian identities. Accord-
ing to the author, “their community organization reflects their nation con-
text, and they explain themselves and their practices in terms of Brazilian
values” (23). As a result, Brazilian culture is modified for Jewish...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 603–613.
Published: 01 July 2006
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sary, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper. $60.00 paper.)
Blackness without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil. By Livio Sansone.
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xviii + 248 pp., introduction, illus-
trations, bibliography, index. $45.00 paper.)
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 595–601.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., bibliography, index. $45.00 paper.)
Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism.
Edited by Jeffrey Lesser. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. xii +
219 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $21.95
paper. $74.95 cloth.)
No One Home: Brazilian Selves...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 753–754.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., represents an endorsement of Weinstein’s program, as well as a major accomplishment for its author. Readers of Ethnohistory will find much to admire in its charting of the complex intersections of indigenous and diasporic peoples over the course of nineteenth-century Brazilian history, from early...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 211–212.
Published: 01 January 2016
...
Brazilian historiography. As specialists know, over the past three decades or
so Brazilian historians of their country’s past have produced some of the
most original, intriguing, and sophisticated studies anywhere in the world.
As they freed themselves of long-standing and virtually umbilical ties...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 189–195.
Published: 01 January 2014
... cloth.) New Immigrants, New Land: A Study of Brazilians in Massachusetts . By Martes Ana Cristina Braga . Translated by Vinkler Beth Ransdell . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2011 . ix + 302 pp., list of tables, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 772–776.
Published: 01 October 2003
... (Brazil’s version of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) is more support-
ive of Indians. Finally, Brazilian anthropologists, who play a powerful role
in government bureaucracies, have become allies of those seeking to assert...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 418–419.
Published: 01 July 2023
... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 During their military dictatorship (1964–85), the Brazilian government constructed the world’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay. In the process, the project flooded 1,350 square kilometers of inhabited land to create...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of Brazilian and British forces managed to retake Belém, native and mixed-race Amazonians could draw on fluid community formations and on knowledge of the labyrinthine, fluvial routes of Amazonia in an attempt to survive the onslaught. For these had been centuries in the making. In light...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 603–604.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., substituting chicken for pork products in the classic Bra-
zilian feijoada (rice served with beans and pork) symbolizes how Jews in
Brazil synchronously express their Jewish and Brazilian identities. Accord-
ing to the author, “their community organization reflects their nation con-
text, and they explain...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 755–766.
Published: 01 October 2000
... and their faith in the bari. The Bororo proceeded to rebuild the
men’s house far from the view of the priests and to practice their rituals,
including the funeral ceremony that so disturbed the Salesians.
Over half a century later the destructive advance of the Brazilian fron-
tier and the birth...
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