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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 4. The German naturalist Maximilian witnessed interactions between native peoples and colonists that contradicted official portrayals. Source: Wied-Neuwied 1820 . Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University More
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 729–732.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Sergei Kan Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment . By Vermeulen Han F. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . xxiii+718 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, bibliography, index . $75.00 cloth.) Copyright...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 677–678.
Published: 01 October 2018
...William S. Kiser Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus . By Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham , with contributions by Heide Castañeda . ( College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2018 . xiv+256 pp., illustrations, tables...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 479–505.
Published: 01 July 2006
.... 1994 [1902] The Samoa Islands [Die Samoa-Inseln]. Theodore Verhaaren, trans. 2 vols. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Liebersohn, Harry 2003 Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer. In Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire . H...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 269–284.
Published: 01 April 2009
... . Bennett, Mary 2003 Meskwaki Code Talkers. Iowa Heritage Illustrated . Winter, 84 ( 4 ): 154 -61. Bishinik (Choctaw Nation newspaper, Durant, OK.) 1986 Germans Confused by Choctaw Code Talkers. August . 1987 Choctaw Language Also Used in WWII for Military Communications . April...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 240–241.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and healer. But a journey that began with the sort of neotraditionalist practices becoming common at the time led him first to absolute pacifism and then Christianity. Chapter 3 traces Papunhank’s meeting with Moravians that included both German missionaries and Indigenous converts. Although intrigued...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 751–778.
Published: 01 October 2004
... that ‘‘they are heathens6 Although Escalante did not deal with the ques- tion of Japanese origins, as many European writers later did, he wrote that their language is ‘‘similar to German’’ but that they read and wrote in the same manner as the Chinese. The same year, the eminent Jesuit missionary of Basque origins...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 329–333.
Published: 01 April 2017
... . This second journal ends when Prince Max starts his return voyage, arriving at Fort Union on 29 September 1833. This trading post was inhabited by about one hundred people representing about a dozen different nationalities, including Scots, Irishmen, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, Italians...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 47–80.
Published: 01 January 2005
... of colonial contact, at the beginning of the twentieth century the Germans established a large coconut plantation that occupies about a third of Bali and much of its most fertile land. Many villagers were con- scripted to work on Bali Plantation while others were forcibly taken away to work on other...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., having seen many chickens but no quetzals, and their Chicacnab hosts worried that tourist dissatisfaction might have negative repercussions for their relationship with the NGO. Ethnographically, the book focuses on interactions between Proyecto Eco-Quetzal (PEQ), an NGO founded by German ecologists...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 575–585.
Published: 01 July 2003
.... Appar- ently, a session with the local shaman was included in the package! This is reminiscent of Cannibal Tours, the excellent film by Dennis O’Rourke that documents the tourist trade among rich Europeans (Germans...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 January 2020
...), who was connected to Dutch settlers and Mohican-Stockbridge Indians along the New York-Massachusetts border, and his Palatine German wife. Jarvenpa traces the lives of their descendants in the Stockbridge area, highlighting how they became involved in the anti-rent resistance between 1750 and 1800...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Figure 4. The German naturalist Maximilian witnessed interactions between native peoples and colonists that contradicted official portrayals. Source: Wied-Neuwied 1820 . Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University ...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 739–740.
Published: 01 October 2003
... French of Histoyre du mechique (12– 15), which many will find difficult. The same is true of the slightly less- archaic Italian (63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70), modern French (50), and modern German (107). Fortunately...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 681–683.
Published: 01 October 2018
... about remaining connected to landscapes, to other beings, and to each other? These are the lessons made available to those who listen, and Rodney Frey, a man “of German and English ancestry,” is a good listener. In Carry Forth the Stories , Frey provides ethnographic scaffolding to hold together...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 227–240.
Published: 01 January 2000
... another dramatic rupture in time. In keeping with their episodic view of history, the Abelam see the past as divided into eras or epochs: ‘‘mythological time the ‘‘time of the ances- tors the ‘‘time of the Germans...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 243–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... for their less-than-decorous behavior. 27 Jon Gjerde ( 1997 : 233–34) refers to the negative portrayals of “rollicking” Irish and “irascible” drunken Germans and provides several harrowing examples of the harassment of immigrant schoolchildren. Certainly, the Welsh community rarely, if ever, encountered...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 779–781.
Published: 01 October 2003
... of the Jesup Expedition by Boas (a never-translated address given in German in 1908) as well as Igor Krupnik’s brief appreciation for historian Douglas Cole, whose death in the summer of 1997 preceded by just three months...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 517–548.
Published: 01 October 2023
...] Aztec’s Homeland?”). In his work, the German anthropologist argued that the Mexica were a people without history and Aztlan was nothing but an imaginary projection of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the past (Seler 1985 : 326). Seler’s proposal elicited the reactions of other notable specialists, such as Paul...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 April 2003
... germane to the present discussion, received little in the way of scholarly attention from historians and anthropologists working on colonial Central America. Yet the volume also disappoints for what it fails to deliver. Rather than...