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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 671–679.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Patrick J. McNamara This article offers a close reading of two sites of memory in Oaxaca's Sierra Zapoteca: a community museum about mining in the region and the ruins of a giant textile factory. While the factory ruins are difficult to find and effectively hidden by the Zapotec peasants using...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 567–607.
Published: 01 July 2004
..., 1833-4. B.135/f/2, 3 Moose Factory, Lists of Servants, 1804 -5. B.135/g/2, 24, 43, 54, 58, 63, 69 Moose Factory, Abstracts of Servants Accounts, 1822 , 1840-1, 1860-1, 1871-2,1874-5, 1880-1, 1886-7. B.175/d/1 Rat Portage Account Book, 1856 -7. B.231/d/6 Fort William Account Book, 1817 -8...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 571–596.
Published: 01 October 2010
... traders of York Factory, the key HBC post located
at the mouth of the Hayes River, was faced with a similar situation to that
Fur Traders and the Windigo in Canada’s Boreal Forest, 1774 to 1935 579
in the Severn House record. Native people brought a mentally ill man, who
had recently tried...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of Viti, Ltd.2 This company, established in 1996, is
owned by Canadian businessman David Gilmour. On seizing the plant, the
landowners demanded employment at the factory, with prospects of jobs
in management as well as labor, a royalty of one cent per bottle sold, and
a meeting with government officials...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 616–617.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the dehumanizing slave market, convents that must have felt claustrophobic to their protected but captive servants, brutal obrajes (rudimentary factories, especially for cloth production), and the vibrant entrepreneurialism of the food and secondhand goods markets. The book starts and finishes with anecdotes...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 354–355.
Published: 01 July 2022
... on three Indigenous communities with distinct historical contexts—the Moose Factory Cree, the Wendat of Wendake, and the Innu of Mashteuiatsh—elaborating on how each (re)purposed money within their respective interactions with colonial fur trading and government institutions. By demonstrating how each...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 393–419.
Published: 01 July 2011
... years. His ventures brought him influence in both locales.
Spoken Word in Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba 397
On Africa’s west coast, Jousiffe maintained close ties with the widow of a
“notorious slave merchant” named John Ormand. The woman had become
wealthy running a factory...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2022
...) factories, as the company’s post journals and account books attest. 8 Anishinaabe oral tradition also reflects the commercial relationship between the Monsoni and the HBC, recording that “the band who lived at Rainy Lake [the Monsoni] . . . often joined the Kenisteno [Nêhiyawak] and Assineboins [Nakoda...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
... to a specific period of wild rubber production (roughly 1870–1910 in Brazil; 1885–1930 upriver toward the Andes), not a stereotype of long-term economic failure. Still, for readers who want to make the connection between factories in London and rubber estradas in Brazil, he provides a great deal of useful...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 669–695.
Published: 01 October 2007
... “trade and barter . . . as actively . . . as the men, and it is as
common to see the wife . . . trading at the factory, as her husband.”31 Ross
Cox similarly noted the power of “chieftainesses,” who “possess great
authority” on the lower Columbia.32 Indeed, the traders depended greatly...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of the poster’s “Work, Live and
Play!” message. After all, the Gary, Indiana, that springs to mind today,
with its weathered factories, dilapidated houses, notoriously high crime
rate, and perpetually blackened sky is hardly a bastion of sunshine and
serenity. Decades ago, native people...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 607–618.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of simultaneous remembering and forgetting in Mexico’s Sierra
Zapoteca, a region riven by both armed conflict and industrial capitalism.
He describes a community-run mining museum and the ruins of a textile
factory, examining the ways in which Zapotecs narrate their encounter with
colonialism and noting...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 491–496.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Mendez notes that in the textile factories, women worked
ten- to fifteen-hour days but earned a basic wage of only $30–89 a month.
At the same time, a minimum living wage for a family of six was calculated
at $162 a month (40).
After MEC became independent from the CST, it had to become self...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 773–774.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 October 2010
... highlands’ limited
economic opportunities. In turn, the book includes chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 750–751.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 751–754.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 754–756.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 756–757.
Published: 01 October 2010
... chapters that cover cot-
tage textile industries in San Francisco de los Altos, vegetable production
for local and border markets in San Pedro Almolonga, vegetable production
for international export, and textile factory work. Again, the study is at its
best when it focuses on the Maya’s own...
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