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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 755–756.
Published: 01 October 2009
... review cannot do justice to it. All specialists in the colonial period should read it. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-031 Book Reviews 755 The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By John...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 153–165.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and judicial decision-making. It also enables the historian to raise questions about the legal validity of past judicial decisions and land transactions that still impact current land disputes. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 researcher’s...
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Published: 01 October 2016
Figure 1. Nahua altepeme and disputed lands in central Mexico, 1530s. Map drawn by the author. More
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Sergio Serulnikov The article explores the causes, ideological underpinnings, and political repercussions of land battles among the Pocoata, an ethnic group in the southern Andes, during the eighteenth century. These disputes afford us a glimpse into the competing native concepts of land tenure...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 697–720.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Figure 1. Nahua altepeme and disputed lands in central Mexico, 1530s. Map drawn by the author. ...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 25–44.
Published: 01 January 2023
... verbal warnings, threats, and intimidation, the Ojibwe mediated disputes, regulated Moravian use of land and resources, and attempted to curtail environmental destruction. This article reveals how the Moravian community encountered and experienced Ojibwe land tenure practices, the consequences...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 April 2018
... the proportion of Nahua women who controlled land in southern small towns (Metepec region) within the extant early nineteenth-century testamentary record. Further, language data from these women’s records serve to restore local meanings of land and society. Taken together, the evidence disputes the narrative...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 135–152.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the community. In contrast with Chiapas, where struggles over land pit Indigenous peasants against powerful non-Indigenous landowners, in Oaxaca land disputes are inter-Indigenous and intercommunal. Over the last couple of decades, as the boundaries of Oaxaca’s municipalities have expanded due to population...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 366–367.
Published: 01 July 2022
... chapters analyzes the “visual-legal interplay” of maps and court records, many of which were transcribed for the first time by the author. Trained as an art historian, Pulido Rull shines when guiding the reader through the legal processes to acquire or dispute land grants. The author starts by examining...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 131–150.
Published: 01 January 2003
... in the important area of inter- community land disputes. Probably the most dramatic nineteenth-century case of the latter concerns don Cipriano Jiménez of Santo Tomas Ocotepec, who was killed during a border skirmish between...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 813–815.
Published: 01 October 2000
... such widespread population movements. His explanations about how local indigenous in- stitutions handled litigation over land disputes, managed long-distance and petty trade, and the demands of Spanish authorities for labor, tribute, and agricultural resources also testifies to the resilience of the cah...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Michel R. 2007 Two Indigenous Maps and a Spanish Land Dispute . Latin American Indian Literature Journal 23 , no. 2 : 195 – 220 . Russo Alessandra 2005 El realismo circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía indígena novohispana, siglos XVI y XVII . Mexico City...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 809–811.
Published: 01 October 2000
... banditry, and land disputes. The topic of labor is divided into two chap- ters, one on nearby hacienda, obraje, church, and other personal service obligations, another on the massively disruptive Potosi mita (these prov- inces were among the most distant to fall within the service net of the Cerro Rico...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 January 2005
... claims that concerned logging operations made it into the formal court system. The reasons why Ranonggans took land disputes to court are not as transparent as they might seem: few of the property disputes that I learned about over the course of my fieldwork in 1998–2001 were remembered...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (4): 893–896.
Published: 01 October 2002
... stage of regional piety. The last section of the book (chapters  through offers a detailed 6762 ETHNOHISTORY / 49:4 / sheet 175 of 193 overview of eighteenth-century life in El Cobre. Chapter  offers a subtle examination of land disputes...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 89–130.
Published: 01 January 2003
... wars. What is most distinctive about the argu- ment is that it draws more heavily on demographic and ecological informa- tion than on the notary transactions and records of land disputes that have formed the basis...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... disputes could have been acted out, discussed, and resolved. The historical period to which the Rab’inal Achi refers was a time of unrest and war among various groups within the western highland region, due to politically motivated land reorganization resulting from long- standing Postclassic...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 403–417.
Published: 01 July 2013
... son, Vasili Rysev Jr., was born in 1873 and became the father of my grandmother, Afanasiia Rysev (fig. 1), in 1896. In 1885, late in his life, Nikolai Shmakov became embroiled in a land dispute in Sitka. He was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in US District Court against Sheldon...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 295–318.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... These fears were only tenuously founded. Chiapas had a history of Indian rebellion.3 Undoubtedly, the countryside was rife with contention between ladinos and Indians over issues ranging from land disputes to per- sonal disagreements. However, legal records are silent on many of these issues through...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 July 2005
... the history carelessly in an essay such as this, or indeed in any context, diminishes the power of the narrative, and thereby diminishes the core of Navajo belief and culture. Although Navajo traditional history was included as testimony in twentieth-century land disputes and in recent land-claims...