Search Results for meaning

...-changing European names for “Indian nations” that give an impression of near constant ethnogenesis, provide evidence of political continuity over time. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Reading Anishinaabe Identities: Meaning and Metaphor in Nindoodem Pictographs Heidi Bohaker...

...Tracy L. Brown Transforming Ethnohistories: Narrative, Meaning, and Community . Edited by Braun Sebastian Felix . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . xiv + 301 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, references, contributors, index . $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2014...

... their assumptions about how postcolonial subjects locate meaning in history. Birds Will Cover the Sky: Humiliation and Meaning in Two Historical Narratives from Auhelawa, Papua New Guinea Ryan Schram, University of Sydney Abstract. This article examines how the people of Auhelawa, a society...

... the contestation of authority and to foster the relocalization of power from center to periphery. American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Power and Meaning on the Periphery of a Malagasy Kingdom Karen Middleton, University of Oxford...

... serve for classroom use if released in paperback. Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Con- temporary American Indian Community. By Jason Baird Jackson. (Lin- coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx, 345 pp., illustrations, bibli- ography, index. $75.00 cloth...

...Margaret Bender Graphic representation is linked to meaning at a number of levels, among them those of orthographic system, text, and individual character. This essay explores the range of possible meanings of “the graphic” at these different levels, particularly in terms of political economy...

...Dan Beaver American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Review Essays Flesh or Fantasy: Cannibalism and the Meanings of Violence Dan Beaver, Pennsylvania State University 6698 Ethnohistory...

... Gods, Foreign Powers: Making History with Global Means and Ends in the Pacific Martha Kaplan, Vassar College What happens when people in the Pacific (whether indigenous or diasporic) orient their history to something over the horizon? How should scholarship on local history-making address...

...-reservation employment as a necessary, if not always desirable, means toward supporting their families when reservation economies (and the Indian Bureau) failed them. Such a perspective challenges any notion that native people en masse were passive victims of what were at times nefarious schemes of federal...

... pluralism,which maintained both difference and congruity among traditions, Arapaho Catholics were empowered to control the boundaries between cultures and the flow of knowledge across them. Retranslation of the Our Father, or Lord's Prayer, through attention to multiple functions, meanings, and uses, offers...

...-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of “Guaranization” that has influenced scholars as much as—if not more than—the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical analysis of the Chiriguano political system, we attempt to recover the Arawakan heritage of this truly mestizo society...

...Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler This article explores the incorporation of the memories of Sir Vivian Fuchs's voyage to the South Island and the deaths of two of his expedition members in 1934 into the Elmolo's oral traditions. The incorporation of the memory of the voyage brought out a new meaning...

... of the heir's journey over many territories forged a distinctive relationship between the Inca elite and the provincial lords, enlightening the meaning of the final unions. Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Acosta, José de 1940 [1590] Historia natural y moral de las Indias...

... rights; the array of means, legal and extralegal, Andean and Spanish, of solving conflicts between families and ayllus ; and the key role of the ethnic chiefs in the struggles over community boundaries and the distribution of plots among community members. The essay argues that, by underscoring...

...Patricia Pierce Erikson This article considers the historical context, cultural processes, and contemporary meanings of the Makah Cultural and Research Center( mcrc ). While fostering cultural tourism, this museum/cultural center's “self-portrait” mediates popular stereotypes. The mcrc has emerged...