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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 485–486.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and sovereignty. Patricia Burke Wood looks at relations between the city of Calgary and the Tsuu T’ina First Nation as a way of moving beyond the Indian/white divide to a postcolonial history that sees these neighbors as engaged in common interests and causes. The essay ably uses a local case to make...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (1): 176–178.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Indians have long found ways to adapt and blend the American economic system to their culture. For example, Choctaws around Natchez, Mississippi, served as guides, but also sold food and provisions to the nearby fort and local populace. Down in New Orleans, as late as the turn...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., and historical agency within colonial rule and illustrate the endemic conflicts that characterized the Pax Colonial. “For the Last Time, Once and for All”: Indians, Violence, and Local Authority in the Colonial City, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1587–1628 Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 561–583.
Published: 01 October 2011
... for Ethnohistory 2011 A Fractured Pochgui: Local Factionalism in Eighteenth- Century Papantla Jake Frederick, Lawrence University Abstract. In August 1787 in Papantla, New Spain, native Totonacs rose in riot. While the captain of militia of a neighboring community described...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the sixteenth century, particularly through the silk trade. In tracing these connections, we see how locally focused microhistories can shed light on aspects of early modern globalization that we might not otherwise attend to. Jamie.forde@ed.ac.uk Copyright 2022 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 527–528.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Lisa Sousa Despite Pizzigoni’s conclusions about the causes of change and indigenous consciousness, this study makes an important contribution to indigenous history and Nahuatl philology by documenting significant regional variation in colonial Nahua communities. The Life Within: Local...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 544–545.
Published: 01 July 2009
... was “bleakly conventional” and mirrored that of other settler societies across the West (55). With the Indians gone, the settlers transformed the lake into a fishery and resort and promoted Utah as a land of lakes. By the mid-twentieth century, however, local histories had already reinterpreted...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 178–179.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Terry Rugeley Poder y gobierno local en México, 1808–1857 . Edited by del Carmen Salinas Sandoval María , Gardida Diana Birrichaga , and Ohmstete Antonio Escobar . ( Zamora : Colegio de Michoacán , 2011 . 424 pp. US $18.00 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 491–523.
Published: 01 July 2011
... identities in the late-colonial era were more flexible, adaptable, and informal than either tribally focused colonial ethnographies or the scholarly literature on identity formation would suggest. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 6. The location of rock painting sites in Tsleil-Wat (Indian Arm) in relation to local Say Nuth Kway oral traditions. Courtesy of Tsleil-Waututh Nation More
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 13–27.
Published: 01 January 2005
...John D. Kelly A Weberian approach to globalization can go beyond analyses of local cultural accommodation and resistance to global forces and can illuminate more complex dialogics of local and global ends and means. Max Weber once objected to the portrayal of Christian martyrdom as service...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 161–189.
Published: 01 January 2003
... frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Creole elites to Tekax, increased local property values, and drove the once majority Maya population into the countryside...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 213–227.
Published: 01 April 2011
...-observer. Alternatively, fieldwork in contemporary societies may be contextualized in local history using the methods and sources of the traditional historian. Anthropologists characteristically rely heavily on oral history, narrative, and life history to supplement written documentary records...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 385–405.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Oriol Ambrogio Abstract This article examines accusations of sorcery as a way to understand the perceptions of sorcery among the Mapuche of central-southern Chile during the colonial period. Local communities believed that illnesses and unfortunate events were caused by the actions of sorcerers...
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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 (2006) 53 (1): 143–172.
Published: 01 January 2006
...James Barber This essay examines the extension of British colonial control across the Lake Rudolf region, investigating the motives for British decisions and the relationships that developed between the colonizers and the local tribes. On both sides there was uncertainty. Among the local peoples...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2016
... physically manifested their elite authors’ privileged access to literacy and their influence on local historiography. Furthermore, the títulos redefined the sociopolitical landscape by integrating written records of territorial claims, historical events, social relationships, and political status...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 251–285.
Published: 01 April 2008
... of various ethnic and splinter groups that tell their own stories of the past in a very different manner though they are within a single community. These distinct and often individualistic memory plots were reworked many times within the primary, local, microcosmic sphere of this community before...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 525–552.
Published: 01 October 2008
... mediated these transformations and was reshaped by them. Local gentry worked as cultural and political brokers, joining forces with state officials in remaking Yucatán as a “modern” and “civilized” state through infrastructural improvements and education aimed at transforming largely indigenous, rural...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 133–169.
Published: 01 January 2000
... for individuals in their locally lived experience; and (3) that people are beginning to resolve this conflict by taking the meaning of the“year 2000” into their own hands in specifically local millennial projects that are aligned with their basic cultural values, especially unity and development. American...