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... of current scholarship goes, the suc- cess is mixed because it is a tall order and only a few of the contributors seek explicitly to shift the ground beneath the field. Peter C. Messer examines the image of the “Indian” in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-​century American historiography. He...

... instruction as well as popular consumption. Tseng 2001.11.12 18:06 Book Reviews 725 Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon’s1945 Field Notebooks. Edited by Margaret Anderson...

... : University of Arizona Press , 2009 . viii + 300 pp., foreword, introduction, bibliography, index . $70.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 Review Essay Materiality, Exchange, and History in the Amazon: A Growing Field of Study Juan Luis Rodríguez, Southern...

...Alison Fields By Renya K. Ramirez. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xii + 273 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper.) By James Hamill. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiii + 216 pp., preface, appendix, bibliography...

...Alison Fields By Peter R. Decker. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004. xix + 235 pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, map, epilogue, endnotes, index. $19.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Book Reviews The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists...

...Wendi Field Murray; Brad KuuNUx TeeRIt Kroupa Abstract The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed profound transformations in the organization of North Dakota’s Native American communities. The end of the fur trade, depleting timber resources, and the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 led...

... of the Indigenous Caribbean. Proceedings of the British Academy 81 : 37 -66. Missing the Point and an Illuminating Example: A Response to Keegan’s Comments L. Antonio Curet, Field Museum of Natural History [The Mirror of Erised] shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most...

... but thereafter mounted their own multinational and multidisciplinary expeditions to the Kenyan part of the Lake Turkana basin. The Koobi Fora sand spit on the east side of the lake served as the National Museums' field headquarters for the Koobi Fora Research Project on that side of the lake, the subsequent West...

..., and such collaborations will strengthen the field of ethnohistory. Nouhquiya quinemiliah atl, tlen campa quitequihuiah: cuaxilotl icuayo, nehpalli, quitehtequi ciltic huan quiamaneloa queuhquinon quicahuah ma elto pampa ni motequihuia quemman nochi tlamiya quichihua itequiuh, ica tlaahatequia tlaixpan huan campa tlitl...

...W. George Lovell Abstract Compared still to what we know about Mexico and Peru, the historiography of colonial Guatemala, despite notable advances, continues to lag behind, registering minimally in the Latin American scholarly imagination. The field is surveyed by examining some of the issues...

...Regna Darnell The synergy between anthropology and history in the interdiscipline of ethnohistory has been productive in stretching the methods and reciprocal pre-occupations of both disciplines. Archival history may be considered as a field site for the anthropologist as situated participant...

... with the legal field of the (post)colonial state and how the paradoxical roots of indigeneity can serve as a starting point from which to rethink the native-settler relationship and the indigenous condition. Is there a way out of this never-ending struggle to locate native-settler relations at some point...

... of the Kwakwaka'wakw community and with a larger public, sometimes referred to as“outsiders” or tourists. I will attempt to account for some of these differences by drawing on a long-term field-work experience. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Alert Bay Infocentre n.d. Discover Yourself in Our World...

..., paying particular attention to his scholarship and curriculum reform efforts during the 1960s. Those years proved crucial in Forbes’s development as a scholar and teacher and in advancing the nascent field of ethnohistory. By the time Forbes took up this work in the 1960s, clear evidence emerged...

...-based fisheries on which native communities had depended for millennia. Although fisheries officers enforced these rules, Indian agents—the field workers of the Department of Indian Affairs—were the ones who oversaw day-to-day life in native villages, including the fisheries. This article examines...

... by Yucatec historians but that have been a favored topic of U.S.-based cultural anthropologists seeking idealized Maya culture,this essay raises new research questions for which yet another rapprochement is necessary in Yucatec studies between the fields of history and cultural ethnography. American...

... in the field in the 1990s. The uprising, the doctrine of the charismatic shaman who fueled the movement, and the outcomes of the clash with the Argentine Army are described herein. The prophet's doctrine was rooted in a mythology of cosmic cataclysms. By following it, believers would be able to persuade...

... on historical circumstances and ethnographic import. In seeking to transact with the president, the Hopi intent discloses a formal nexus among diplomacy,barter, and religious offerings. Anthropology's tendency to separate social action into discrete fields—economics, politics, and religion—obscures a congruence...