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Conquistadores de La Calle: Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 January 2011
...: A Hid-
den History of Navajo Weaving examines the consequences of the Ameri-
can market economy for Navajo weavers and the exploitative practices of
white traders who have benefited enormously from Navajo non-waged
labor while Navajos remain impoverished. This situation...
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Forced and Forest Labor Regimes in Colonial Madagascar, 1926-1936
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 407–435.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Genese Sodikoff This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male...
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Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala; Seeing and Being Seen: The Q'eqchi' Maya of Livingston, Guatemala, and Beyond
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 697–701.
Published: 01 October 2008
... marks an important contribution to a very complex subject
that merits further study.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-031
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Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians: Land, Labor, and Regional
Ethnic Conflict in the Making of Guatemala...
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From Prison to Home: Labor Relations and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 663–692.
Published: 01 October 2013
... the chronic labor problems that had plagued the former colony since its formation. Interdisciplinary research at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla and in its associated descendant communities offers a case study of some of the tactics that may have been used to control agrarian workers during the century...
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Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Cameron Shriver Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood . By Norrgard Chantal . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Series . ix + 201 pp., acknowledgments, appendix, endnotes...
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 541–542.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Alejandra Dubcovsky The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast . By Stern Jessica Yirush ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . xv+250pp., acknowledgments, appendix, bibliography, index . $29.95...
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Archaeology, Wage Labor, and Kinship in Rural Mexico, 1934–1974
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 197–221.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Sam Holley-Kline Abstract This article assesses the relationships between archaeology and wage labor in twentieth-century Mexico through an analysis of governmental payroll records from El Tajín, Veracruz. For Indigenous Totonac workers, the long-term presence of archaeological labor provided...
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Classrooms of CEU-Xhidza, built by community labor. Photograph by the autho...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 April 2023
Figure 6. Classrooms of CEU-Xhidza, built by community labor. Photograph by the author.
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Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 373–375.
Published: 01 April 2001
... analyzes how concerns specific to New World
experiences, such as race, the religious conversion of indigenous peoples,
and new contexts for labor and occupation, reshaped cultural notions and
practices of honor and dishonor among...
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Land, Labor, and the Chilapa Market: A New Look at the 1840s' Peasant Wars in Central Guerrero
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 89–130.
Published: 01 January 2003
... University Press. Land, Labor, and the Chilapa Market:
A New Look at the s’ Peasant Wars
in Central Guerrero
Chris Kyle, University of Alabama, Birmingham
6817 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:1 / sheet 91 of 250...
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“un pedaso de tiera de labor me dejo mi padresito . . . ” From the 1817 tes...
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in Cacicas , Escribanos , and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 6. “un pedaso de tiera de labor me dejo mi padresito . . . ” From the 1817 testament of Ascencia Pascuala, by escribano Juan Máximo Mexía. Agricultural land owned by the testator and left to heirs is nearly universally called tierra de labor , land for maize cultivation. This corresponds
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Indians, Ladinos, and the Resurrection of the Protector de Indios , San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 1870–85
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 295–318.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of Indians. Indians labored under the double burden of ethnicity and class, and dialogues between Indians and ladinos existed throughout the decades in the nineteenth century over issues of labor, land, and pay. On the heels of a violent race war (1867–70) between Indians and ladinos, the state government...
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“An Influential Squaw”: Intermarriage and Community in Central California, 1839–1851
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 707–727.
Published: 01 October 2015
... communities. Less attention has been paid the pre–gold rush period, in which a more complex social and sexual milieu emerged, influenced by the labor and familial relations of the fur trade. In California's Central Valley, white and Native Hawaiian settlers pursued relationships with Plains Miwok– and Valley...
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Philippine Indios in the Service of Empire: Indigenous Soldiers and Contingent Loyalty, 1600–1700
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 381–413.
Published: 01 April 2016
... with an analysis of the way in which military service intersected with other forms of coerced labor among nonelite Philippine indios . An understanding of pre-Hispanic cultures of warfare and debt servitude helps make the case that many indigenous soldiers were pushed into military service as a way of paying off...
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Indian Slaves from Guiana in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Carolyn Arena Abstract The economy of Barbados benefited both from the labor of Indian captives and from their isolated position away from indigenous zones of conflict and economic competition. The Anglo-Barbadians accessed labor in Guiana, the region between the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers. Barbados...
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Ethnicity, Demography, and Estate Management in Sixteenth-Century Yucay
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 303–335.
Published: 01 April 2007
... following his death. After the Spanish invasion, Yucay and other royal estates changed hands frequently, and Inca patterns of labor tribute gradually gave way to the Spanish colonial tribute system. The tributary redefinition of permanent retainers ( yanakuna ) in the Yucay Valley led to the 1571...
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Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado–Gila River Region, 1771–1783
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
Published: 01 April 2019
... recruited Spanish mediation to ameliorate the negative effects of the colonial captive trade. Across the eighteenth century, the river peoples had accessed Spanish trade networks by raiding their rivals to furnish colonists with captive labor. Captive raiding exacerbated intra-Native competition...
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Treaty Stories: Reclaiming the Unbroken History of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Sovereignty
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 215–236.
Published: 01 April 2021
... relationships with land, language, sacred history, ceremony, and kin. Federal and state policy makers, fueled by the desire for Indian land and resources, attempted to unravel these relationships in the decades that followed. By continuing to live out through labor and stories their relationships with the woods...
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Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography of Colonialism in the Gusii Highlands of British-Ruled Kenya
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 491–523.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Timothy Parsons In an effort to generate labor, protect European settler interests, and rationalize administration, the Kenyan imperial regime sought to impose a new ethnic geography on the African majority that confined communities to specific “native reserves” based on their supposed ethnicity...
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Crossing Over: Caciques, Indigenous Politics, and the Vecino World in Caste War Yucatán
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 739–759.
Published: 01 October 2014
... their exploitation of indigenous labor. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Crossing Over: Caciques, Indigenous Politics,
and the Vecino World in Caste War Yucatán
Rajeshwari Dutt, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
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