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Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia

Eric Tagliacozzo
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 331–332.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025484
Published: 01 April 2020
...Eric Tagliacozzo Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia . By Fenneke Sysling . ( Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2016 . vii +305 pp., maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $42.00 paperback.) Copyright 2020 by American Society...
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Introduction: Knowledge of Birds and Feathers in the Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerican World

Lisa Sousa, Allison Caplan
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 345–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266361
Published: 01 July 2020
... include Leonardo López Luján et al.’s ( 2014 ) analysis of animal offerings at the Templo Mayor and Guilhem Olivier and López Luján’s ( 2017 ) study of the symbolism of the roseate spoonbill. 5 For the colonial period, studies grounded in the European history of science have largely examined the role...
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Constructing a Sacred Chronology: How the Nova Scotian Institute of Science Made the Mi’kmaq a People without Prehistory

Michelle A. Lelièvre
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 401–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3870636
Published: 01 July 2017
...-Pyenson Susan 1996 John William Dawson: Faith, Hope, and Science . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press . Stocking George W. Jr. 1987 Victorian Anthropology . New York : Free Press . Stocking George W. Jr. 1991 Colonial Situations: Essays...
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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes

Allison Margaret Bigelow
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 351–380.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3455347
Published: 01 April 2016
...–1801, suggesting how women of different socioeconomic and technical backgrounds participated in the silver industry. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 colonial science technical literacies law gender Andes In 1641 an Andean miner named Bartola Sisa moved with her...
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Collecting a “Lost City” For Science: Huaquero Vision and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions to Machu Picchu, 1911, 1912, and 1914–15

Amy Cox Hall
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 293–321.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1536894
Published: 01 April 2012
... Richard 2000 Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge . In Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise . MacLeod Roy , ed. Pp. 221 – 40 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Conn Steven 1998 Museums...
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Women in Bullboats: Indigenous Women Navigate the Upper Missouri River

Christopher Steinke
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 449–470.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4174231
Published: 01 October 2017
..., and Condition of the North American Indians . 2 vols. New York : Wiley and Putnam . Chambers David Wade , and Gillespie Richard . 2000 . “ Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge .” Osiris 15 : 221 – 40 . Chittenden Hiram...
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“It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians”: Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana

D. Graham Burnett
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 3–40.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-1-3
Published: 01 January 2002
... that the history of science at the colonial ‘‘periphery’’ can not only shed much light on the histories of imperialism and European expansion but also can shine some bright beams back into the sanctuaries of science in the distant...
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The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s

Martha Few
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8266470
Published: 01 July 2020
... . “ Research, Development, and Empire: State Support of Science in the Later Spanish Empire .” Colonial Latin American Review 15 , no. 1 : 55 – 79 . De Vos Paula . 2007 . “ Natural History and the Pursuit of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Spain .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 40 , no. 2 : 209...
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Guest Editors' Introduction

Pete Sigal, John F. Chuchiak, IV
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 3–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-037
Published: 01 January 2007
... where power relations are omnipresent. Thus, just as Martha Few’s doctor constructs bodies based on his notion of Enlightenment philosophy and science, the Maya of John F. Chuchiak IV use the concept of sexual sin to play a power game with the Franciscan friars. In colonial Mesoamerica...
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Indigenous Technologies in the 1577 Relaciones geográficas of New Spain: Collective Land Memory, Natural Resources, and Herbal Medicine

Kelly S. McDonough
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 465–487.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7517886
Published: 01 July 2019
... Apache . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Bauer Ralph , and Norton Marcy . 2017 . “ Introduction: Entangled Trajectories: Indigenous and European Histories .” Colonial Latin American Review 26 , no. 1 : 1 – 17 . Bray Francesca . 2008 . “ Science, Technique...
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Covered with Such a Cappe: The Archaeology of Seneca Clothing, 1615–1820

Maeve Kane
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2376060
Published: 01 January 2014
..., Colonialism, and Cultural Entanglement”; W. Reinhard, “Colonization and Colonialism, History of,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behav- ioral Sciences, ed. N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes (New York, 2001), 2240–45. 12 Cusick, Studies in Culture Contact; Stephen W. Silliman, Lost...
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Quirípas and Mostacillas: The Evolution of Shell Beads as a Medium of Exchange in Northern South America

Rafael A. Gassón
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 581–609.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-581
Published: 01 October 2000
... historia de la Compañia de Jesús en Venezuela . José del Rey Fajardo, ed. Pp. 215 -333. Fuentes para la historia colonial de Venezuela, No. 79. Caracas: Biblioteca de la Academia Nacional de la Historia. Appadurai, Arjun, ed. 1991 Introducción: Las mercancías y la política del valor. In La...
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Centering Animals in Latin American History

Andrew Sluyter
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 439–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-3455571
Published: 01 April 2016
... the central actors in shared human-nonhuman histories. The emergence of posthumanism in the social sciences provides the inspiration, namely, the recognition that nonhumans also possess the agency to transform social relations. The hope is that the expansion of protagonists from humans to animals will enhance...
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Yokol Cab: Mayan Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua

Amy George-Hirons
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 525–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890221
Published: 01 July 2015
... Balam . Boulder : University Press of Colorado . 2015 Literacy and Healing: Semiotic Ideologies and the Entextualization of Colonial Maya Medical Incantations . Ethnohistory 62 ( 3 ): 573 – 95 . Lemay Richard 1987 The True Place of Astrology in Medieval Science and Philosophy...
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Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936

Genese Sodikoff
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 407–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-407
Published: 01 April 2005
... having mastered the science of forestry. The colonial vision of the properly trained forestry employee contributed, I argue, to the difficulties experienced by Eaux et Forêts in instilling an ethic 424 Genese Sodikoff of conservation among Malagasy...
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Nahua Responses to the Matlazahuatl or “Mystery” Plague of 1805

Farren Yero
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 87–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10888043
Published: 01 January 2024
... and the gendered implications of refusal, see the arguments made by Aisha Finch ( 2016 ). Scholars of science and technology studies have theorized this concept to refigure the colonial relations that organize the production of knowledge, refusing the extractive practices and possibilities engendered...
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Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica

Eric Van Young
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 231–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-1-231
Published: 01 January 2003
... of Society and Culture . Berkeley: University of California Press. Borah, Woodrow W. 1983 Justice by Insurance:The General Indian Court of Colonial Mexico and the Legal Aides of the Half-Real . Berkeley: University of California Press. Cervantes, Fernando 1994 The Devil in the New World...
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How to Map with Ink: Cartographic Materials from Colonial Oaxaca

Alexander Hidalgo
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 277–299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2414172
Published: 01 April 2014
..., and technology among historians of science and art has exposed the intimate relationship between learned inquiry and practical experience.20 Gabriela Siracusano’s El poder de los colores, an analysis of materiality in Andean colonial art, provides a particularly useful model for considering questions...
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2009 Presidential Address: What Is “History”? An Anthropologist's Eye View

Regna Darnell
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 213–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1163019
Published: 01 April 2011
..., Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press . Darnell Regna 1998 Rethinking Band and Tribe, Community and Nation: An Accordion Model of Nomadic Native American Social Organization . Papers of the 29th Algonquian Conference . Pp. 90 – 105...
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Introduction

Miranda Johnson, Yanna Yannakakis
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 129–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10266785
Published: 01 April 2023
... in contexts of resurgent Indigenous claims-making, shifting state demands, and the legacies of colonialism. Neoliberal restructuring and its intersections with recognition of Indigenous rights figures centrally across the essays and provides an overarching framework for the forum. Neoliberalism has often...
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