...Grant Arndt Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains . By Scales Christopher A. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xi + 368 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...

...: The Impact of the Sugar Industry on a Nineteenth-Century Yucatecan Town Christopher M. Nichols, Tulane University 6817 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:1 / sheet 163 of 250 Abstract. This article examines incipient...

... Rubber Industry Stephen L. Nugent pursues a very different objective. “This is not a history of the rubber industry in the Amazon,” he explains, “but an essay about the writing of that history—not historiography, but, for want of a better term, historical anthropology” (3). In his view, academic...

... the land for farming, the museum at Natividad is open to the public and celebrates the role of Zapotec miners in this industrial sector. Together, both of these sites reveal a Zapotec people's history of industrialization and the complicated nature of capitalism and ethnic identity. In addition to dealing...

...Doug Kiel During the first decades of the twentieth century, a new generation of Native American intellectuals and activists established national organizations such as the Society of American Indians (SAI) and grappled with issues such as private property, reservation industrialization, traditional...

...–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...

... in an industrializing capitalist society. Yet the rapid growth of Church Army branches among aboriginal peoples of British Columbia's north coast under different conditions in these same years challenges the often-assumed universality of categories of analysis such as class. This article explores the movement from...

... scholars are recognizing: discourse concerning “globalization” and “indigenous” peoples, usually thought to be characteristic of the post-colonial period, may have had analogues that antecede the penetration of industrial capitalism and the entrenchment of European colonialism. American Society...

...Dorothee Schreiber In the 1890s native fisheries stood in the way of expanding industrial and sport fisheries in Canada. Federal regulations denied a commercial component to native fisheries, restricted harvesting to designated open seasons, and outlawed the technologically specialized and place...

... was a secure location, away from the indigenous war zones, trade routes, and markets for captives in Guiana. In this context, the Barbadian sugar industry flourished without threat from Indians’ reprisals. Seventeenth-century ethnographies and modern scholarship have emphasized the limited nature...

... in intercultural conflicts and misunderstandings. Such struggles speak to the contested nature of history and the deeply rooted concerns about the region's socioeconomic future following the decline of natural resource industries. Copyright 2009 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2009 Abercrombie...

... accepting relocation's challenge and affecting the program's eventual outcome. By focusing attention on Indian appeals for urban industrial work opportunities both during and after World War II, this article contextualizes the relocation program within a larger trend of native people willingly embracing off...

.... Indians used the opportunity to contest and negotiate long-held grievances. A study of the legal culture in San Cristóbal de Las Casas and of the reintroduction of the protector de indios proved precipitous in the two decades prior to the rise of the agricultural-export industry. The use of the protector...

... in Mexico for the most part, were modeled after material culture objects imported from Europe and Asia. 2 What the document does not show is the community’s simultaneous involvement as producers in this same early textile industry, raising and at times reeling the raw silk thread used to fabricate...

.... The second part looks at the “actors and institutions” that made Moquegua’s wine industry unique and explains how a frontier of the Inka domains became a peripheral region of the Spanish empire even as this political entity itself became a periphery of the larger world economy. In this part we see Spanish...

... invested in tourist housing, and other privately owned infrastructure followed. Anthropologist Sarah R. Taylor charts the impact and implications of the burgeoning tourist industry on Ek’ Balam and its people from 2004 to 2012. At the crux of change is what Taylor refers to as the “ecosystem...

... adds much to our understanding of native history and the history of whaling— particularly during the industry’s peak years in the nineteenth century. Despite ample documentation showing how crucial native involvement was at every stage in the development of whaling, the participation of Indian...

... of small rural producers is dismissed in favor of top-heavy development schemes aimed at maximizing profits and market efficiency, while rural communities are moved into work in industries and in migrant flows (4). The fieldwork focus of this book is the state of Puebla, where producers are active...

...- 1 sion of Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Butterworth has opened up new and lucrative industries for Native Americans. Following the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act casino-style gambling...

... of Peter Puget’s recorded impressions of the people and places of the sound, De Danaan notes that “after the 1850s [the oyster industry] got fired up for real” (34). Although historians have considered the oyster industry previ- ously, Gale’s experience stands in contrast to the domination by American...