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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 677–700.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Carolyn Podruchny American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Werewolves and Windigos:
Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in
French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition
Carolyn Podruchny, York University
While traveling around Lake Superior in the 1850s, German explorer Jo-
hann Georg Kohl...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 419–420.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Cary Miller Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 . By Murphy Lucy Eldersveld . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . xvi + 313 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, index . $32.99 paper...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 421–422.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Elizabeth Ellis Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana . By Milne George Edward . ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2015 . xv + 312 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, index . $26.95 paper.) Copyright 2016 by American...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 January 2015
... but ultimately less constructive.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2821878
Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the
End of New France. By Christian Ayne Crouch. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni-
versity Press, 2014. xii + 190 pp., acknowledgments, notes, index.)
Adam Stueck, De Pere Historical...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 391–392.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Jacob F. Lee The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America . By Leavelle Tracy Neal . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2012 . 255 pp., acknowledgments, illustrations, appendix, notes, index . $39.95 cloth, $39.95 e...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 452–454.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas . By Céline Carayon . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . xvi + 456 pp., maps, notes, index. $49.95 hardcover.). Copyright 2021...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 265–285.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Noel E. Smyth Abstract In 1731 a French army in colonial Louisiana enslaved hundreds of Natchez families and shipped them to Saint-Domingue where they mostly disappear from the written records. This article analyzes tantalizing clues about Natchez families and other Native American slaves...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 597–620.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Silvia Espelt-Bombin Abstract This article focuses on the geographical space between the Amazon delta and the Maroni River (nowadays Brazilian Amapá and French Guiana) in 1600–1730. An imperial frontier between France and Portugal South American possessions, it has been conceptualized as a refuge...
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in “In Place of Horses”: Indigenous Burdeners and the Politics of the Early American South
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 2. Early depiction of Timucua burdeners delivering supplies to French colonists from Fort Caroline, detail (from Theodor de Bry, America , pt. 2, Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry and Johann Feyerabend, 1591). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI.
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Andrew Sturtevant In 1738, the Hurons and Odawas living at the French post of Détroit clashed violently. This episode testifies to the two neighbors' complicated relationship, which had long vacillated between close alliance and cooperation, on one hand, and entrenched resentment and competition...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Alanna Loucks 11al94@queensu.ca People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada . By Louise Dechêne; translated by Peter Feldstein ; foreword by Thomas Wien . ( Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2021 . 592 pp., 6 maps, 2 photos, 5 tables. $44.95...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 401–402.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Brigittine M. French Who Counts?: The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide . By Diane M. Nelson . ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2015 . xi +307 pp., preface, notes, references, index. $25.95 paperback.) Copyright 2019 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2019...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 389–414.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Shannon Lee Dawdy Using new archaeological data and colonial narratives, I reconstruct the menu of French colonial Louisiana with the aim of showing how the sensual and social experience of eating relates to the political rationalities of colonialism. In Louisiana, food practices enunciated...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 223–232.
Published: 01 April 2022
... people in their community Wendake, then referred to as Lorette, a little outside of what is now the city of Quebec. The Wyandot are a closely related people, whose communities at the time of first contact with the French were west of the territory of the Wendat, and close to the southern shores...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 87–121.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Jeffrey C. Kaufmann Diverse attitudes toward Malagasy prickly pear cactus demonstrate that French colonialism was not a single cohesive strategy but was marked by contradictions and struggles. Struggles among groups of colonizers included not only the control of cactus but also its appropriateness...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 July 2001
...Dave D. Davis Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River by French explorers and settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oral...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 373–403.
Published: 01 April 2002
...Katherine E. Browne This article introduces the concept of creole economics , a culturally informed view of the informal economy in Martinique, French West Indies. Local actors engaged in this economic practice are commonly known as débrouillards. Drawing on studies of French slavery and folklore...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 639–668.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Michael Witgen This article examines the social construction of space and identity in the Great Lakes and the western interior of North America. Through analysis of documentary evidence it contrasts the discursive practices of the French empire, which established claims of discovery and possession...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 333–368.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Jean Michaud This article provides an overview of the recent interactions between the highlanders of northern Vietnamand the successive powers that controlled the state between 1802 and 1975: Imperial Vietnam until 1883, the French colonial state until 1954, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 423–452.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Susan Sleeper-Smith This article focuses on four Native women who were Christian converts and married French fur traders. As “cultural mediators” and“negotiators of change” they mediated the face-to-face exchange of goods for peltry in the western Great Lakes through Catholic kin networks...
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