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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 509–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
...John M. Watanabe This commentary addresses issues of representation in its delegative and political as well as sign-making senses intrinsic to bottom-up histories of state power and the meanings such power precipitates. Brokers as representatives in a political sense ideally reveal the dynamics...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
Published: 01 April 2019
... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...
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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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Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 553–578.
Published: 01 October 2008
... represented himself as an authority on the Maya and as a model outcome of indigenista assimilation. Part revolutionary cacique (or boss), part ethnic broker, he used his mastery of Yucatec Maya and populist style to parry demands from below and to accommodate the new political and old economic elites. Still...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 609–632.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., the INI's initial success in Chiapas also contained the seeds for its eventual failure. In its bids to overcome opposition to its programs, the INI relied heavily on its indigenous brokers. Many of these men later used their relatively privileged positions to control access to government resources...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 385–402.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Sergei Kan Sergei Kostromitinov was born in 1854 to a Russian employee of the Russian-American Company and a Creole woman. Fluent in Russian and English and conversant in several native languages, he became an interpreter for Alaska's American authorities and an indispensable cultural broker among...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 489–515.
Published: 01 July 2018
... reading of the sources in which Goggey is found as a guide, broker, and law man increasing in seniority, and as an individual entangled in the violence and negotiations of the colony. By offering a “reading,” I mean that I am “guessing at meanings, assessing the guesses, and drawing explanatory...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 April 2016
... we have none. There are larger issues, though. For example, I do not buy his argument that the “national brokers” for unification must be male. Wetzel also identifies the gathering throughout the book as the Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, when the event is frequently called the Gathering...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 503–508.
Published: 01 October 2008
... indigenous cultural brokers,
or promotores culturales, to assist in carrying out a far-reaching program
of economic, social, and cultural modernization. Crossing the border to
Guatemala, Carey discusses how early- to mid-twentieth-century highland
marketplaces became theaters of struggle between...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 July 2024
...-betweens (a broad group that included such famous figures as Malintzin and Squanto) operating as translators and culture brokers not only in the Americas but also within Europe. Manteo, a Croatan man from the Carolina coast who probably chose to venture to England, became part of Sir Walter Raleigh’s...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2012
... Journal of American Studies 3 : 127 – 50 . 1993 American Indian Children at School, 1850–1930 . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi . 1994 American Indian School Pupils as Cultural Brokers: Cherokee Girls at Brainerd Mission, 1828–29 . In Between Indian and White Worlds...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 360–361.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as brokers of all sorts came to depend, from Canada down to Chile (164). On a deeper level, it refers to their role in the production of the colonial order, alongside European settlers and empires eager to expand and consolidate their New World possessions. Some of the best pages in this intercontinental...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 October 2003
.... Such enlightened utopia, to be sure, drew the ire of both
Indians and the church. To the church, the reforms heralded a loss of power,
for the new schools brought a new broker into the countryside, namely,
the teacher, poised to offstage...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 323–336.
Published: 01 April 2001
... accommodation between peoples who otherwise interact
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without much knowledge of each other. Some cultural brokers—espe-
cially Indian women such as Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and Doña Maria (La...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 415–417.
Published: 01 July 2003
...-century cultural broker and entrepreneur who simultaneously
revitalized and commodified Makah cultural practices as the Makah came
to see and situate themselves in a larger set of political and economic rela-
tions in the region...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 544–546.
Published: 01 July 2001
... not a predicament make, and
Dean argues that, ultimately, midcolonial Cuzco native lords were ‘‘media-
tors midlevel power brokers at ease with their interstitial roles and selves.
(Perhaps it helped that this was a time of relative peace.)
Bridges have always been a weak link in interdisciplinary studies...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 519–521.
Published: 01 July 2001
..., two years of higher education
‘‘in the States’’ broadened his views and placed him in a better position to
serve the Creek Nation as a ‘‘cultural broker
Enlistment in the Confederate Indian Brigade reinforced Grayson’s
importance in Creek society. Just as the Creek warrior tradition expected...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 605–635.
Published: 01 October 2013
... ethnohistorian, helped to pro-
mote peace and workable alliances between peoples who would otherwise
remain strangers and potential enemies.15
To be sure, Tomochichi used gifts to broker alliances, but in the years
after his return from London, he ruled from a position of abrasive authori-
tativeness...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2016
... and give up the right to violence.
Several have argued that this process was mostly voluntary in that local
leaders positioned themselves as brokers of the relationships between
Ethnohistory 63:1 (January 2016) doi 10.1215/00141801-3325422
Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 890–893.
Published: 01 October 2002
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of open repression and the emergence of an arrangement that forces elite
political actors to take greater account of popular interests. In other words,
the hacendado’s whip yielded to the elaborate brokering process...
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