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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 430–431.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Terry Rugeley Talking Taíno: Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective . By Keegan William F. and Carlson Lisabeth A. . ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2008 . xv + 136 pp., introduction, maps, photographs, appendixes, bibliography, index . $49.75 cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 816–818.
Published: 01 October 2000
... of the Caribbean. Edited by Samuel M. Wilson.
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida xiv + pp., figures, tables,
foreword, preface, works cited, contributors, index. cloth.)
Pedro J. Ferbel, Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
The indigenous people of the Caribbean have a long and rich history of
cultural...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 752–753.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., leaving us with a sense of the revolution’s grand project but also its fatal flaws. Puri’s preoccupation with her study of the revolution, as she says in her concluding chapter, is with trying to rescue the progressive project, which, at least in the Caribbean, was all but killed with the revolution’s...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 409–418.
Published: 01 April 2006
.... Schuyler, Robert L. 1988 Archaeological Remains, Documents, and Anthropology: A Call for a New Culture History. Historical Archaeology 22 : 36 -42. Review Essays
Recent Books in the Historical Archaeology of
Latin America and the Caribbean
Rani T. Alexander, New Mexico State University...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Terry Rugeley Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing . Edited by Paton Diana and Forde Maarit . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 354 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, afterword . $27.95 paper.) Copyright 2015...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 203–204.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Lomarsh Roopnarine The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas . By Tinker Keith L. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2011 . x + 199 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $69.95 cloth.) Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Matthew Casey Subjects or Citizens: British Caribbean Workers in Cuba, 1900–1960 . By Whitney Robert and Laffita Graciela Chailloux . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . x + 238 pp., introduction, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index . $74.95 cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 382–383.
Published: 01 April 2014
...David C. LaFevor Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean . Edited by Bronfman Alejandra and Wood Andrew Grant . Pitt Latin American series . ( Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2012 . xvi + 169 pp., introduction, notes, index . $24.00 paper...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 405–406.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Thomas C. Anderson [email protected] Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean . By Erin Woodruff Stone . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 288 pp., 6 b/w. $49.95 hardcover.). Copyright 2023 by American Society...
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Published: 01 October 2016
Figure 1. Map of the circum-Caribbean area (after Keegan, Machlachlan, and Byrne 1998 ). Drawing by Jennifer Steffey
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 373–403.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole identities play a significant role in shaping local patterns of illicit earning. By extending the notion of creole adaptations...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 195–217.
Published: 01 April 2013
... on the initial discovery by Christopher Columbus before leaving the Caribbean behind. This essay addresses these silences by carefully examining the evolution of colonial society on Española using sources found in the Archivo General de Indias and recent archaeological studies. Among the themes I analyze in my...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 79–107.
Published: 01 January 2012
... that fit with the initial Spanish impressions of native Caribbean peoples. Archaeological findings reveal some of the heterogeneity that has been obscured by the Carib category recorded in the ethnohistoric sources. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 References Allaire...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 217–239.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Gabriel De La Luz-Rodríguez Abstract This article argues for the importance of an ethnological hermeneutics in the study of the early colonial period in the Caribbean. It does so by applying this methodology to a founding document concerning early colonial encounters on the island of San Juan...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 259–280.
Published: 01 April 2002
...L. Antonio Curet The rules of succession described in the early Spanish chronicles for Caribbean chiefdoms have been used by many scholars to reconstruct a Taino kinship system. This article argues that these conclusions were reached by using unfounded assumptions, especially confusing rules...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., Columbus maintains the belief that he had reached Asia, and the land of the Grand Can (“Caniba”). These names and associated behaviors (anthropophagy) do not represent or portray the native peoples of the Caribbean Islands. In contrast, the wounds observed are interpreted as emblematic of the potential...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and misrepresentation of indigenous women, using Pocahontas and Malinche as examples of distorted icons, referencing the hidden history of the sixteenth-century trade in indigenous sex slaves in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, and arguing that the Armed Freedom statue atop the US Capitol Building is an allegorical icon...
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Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 269–290.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Samantha R. Billing Abstract The Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean Coast of Central America, have long been recognized for their racial diversity. In the mid-seventeenth century, a ship of African slaves wrecked on the Mosquito Coast and subsequently intermarried with the Miskitu...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 363–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Caribbean colonization, the Spaniards were not in control as all actors were engaging in a novel environment, the structure of the conjuncture. The situation did change by the early 1500s, but the imprint of the structure of the conjuncture was felt for decades to come. Copyright 2021 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Luciano Baracco Abstract Geopolitical changes taking place in late nineteenth-century Central America laid the pathway for Nicaragua’s long-desired incorporation of the autonomous Mosquito Reservation, which was located on its Caribbean Coast. This article brings to light the diplomatic mission...
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