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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 607–618.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of smallpox before he could complete his task. Two hundred seventy years later, the Mohegan Tribe, with the help of Elizabeth II, unveiled a monument to Mahomet at Southwark Cathedral. Oscillating between his story and wider questions related to monument, memory, and commemoration, this short essay argues...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 635–653.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Jean M. O'Brien; Lisa Blee This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri...
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in The Point of View of a Stone: Looking at the Colonization of the Northern Plains from the Standing Rock
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2019
Figure 1. Dedication of Standing Rock Monument, Fort Yates, North Dakota, 1886. Photo by D. F. Barry. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western History Collection, B-753.
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 513–515.
Published: 01 July 2010
...-Classic transitions in Mesoamerica.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-030
The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City. By Flora Sim-
mons Clancy. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xi +
228 pp., preface, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $45.00
cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 693–695.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 354–355.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Massasoit stands with other sculptures or art, convincing some that 8sâmeeqan was important without teaching much history. In Provo, the semi-nude statue’s violation of campus dress codes draws more comment than its historical message. Still, for a few individuals the monument inspires reflection about...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Jane Dinwoodie Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory . By Denson Andrew . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . viii+304 pp., 14 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright 2018 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 737–738.
Published: 01 October 2016
...,” the term is translatable as “fame.” Such a gloss requires an explanation, of course, and this Hajovsky provides over the course of ten chapters. Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma’s Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals . By Hajovsky...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 327–350.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., landscapes, historiographies, monuments, and music. In a political climate defined by ethnoracial and political tensions, colonial elites saw in the rebellion the republican ideology and racial violence of the Haitian Revolution. Fearing the persistence of social divisions and political resentment...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 49–70.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Figure 1. Dedication of Standing Rock Monument, Fort Yates, North Dakota, 1886. Photo by D. F. Barry. Courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western History Collection, B-753. ...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 752–753.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., literature, monuments, and music. She also uses less explored ways of knowing—graffiti, Maurice Bishop’s calling card, an abandoned Cuban plane, and a stained-glass window—which together locate her work between an evidence-based social science account of the revolution and its aftermath and the poetic...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 686–687.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... As Walter Scheidel’s overview essay explains, we can rightly categorize Aztec civilization as ancient since it developed in isolation from Afroeurasia; both the Roman and Aztec Empires began as city-states that later expanded, and they both employed monumental sculpture and architecture in city centers...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., 2001. xx + 272 pp., preface, introduction, maps,
photos, drawings, tables, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.)
David Webster, Pennsylvania State University
Temples apart, the most widely recognized monuments left by the Classic...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 January 2020
...). Published reports of ancient monuments in North America intrigued Jefferson inspiring him to instruct explorers of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase to collect data about potential Indian monuments. He specifically encouraged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to search for ancient Indian monuments...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 527–530.
Published: 01 July 2001
... of
monumental buildings composed of loose, poorly consolidated rubble. In
such places, tunnels can be lethally dangerous. David Freidel and Charles
Suhler’s study is of Late Preclassic architecture at Yaxuna. As always, Frei-
del steers the paper with elegant and agile prose. Some of the glyphic read-
ings...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 821–823.
Published: 01 October 2000
..., frontispiece.)
Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University
This monumental homage to the great autodidact ethnohistorian of Peru,
compiled in honor of her eightieth birthday, consists of some thirty-nine
articles plus a comprehensive bibliography of María Rostworowski’s work,
an introduction...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 January 2016
...,” the hopelessly outnumbered Modocs made
brilliant strategic use of the rugged lava beds located just south of the
Oregon border. Today Captain Jack’s Stronghold lies at the center of the
Lava Beds National Monument, established in 1925 to preserve the vol-
canic terrain that provided the defiant Modocs...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 805–810.
Published: 01 October 2014
..., Mexico 671
Mundy, Barbara E. Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan 329
O’Brien, Jean M., and Lisa Blee. What Is a Monument to Massasoit
Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place
in Public Displays of History 635
Olko, Justyna. Body Language in the Preconquest...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Peten, Guatemala .” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia . Chase Arlen F. , Grube Nikolai , and Chase Diane Z. 1991 . “ Three Terminal Classic Monuments from Caracol, Belize .” Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing , no. 36 . Washington, DC : Center...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 387–405.
Published: 01 April 2012
... monuments and gravestones (g. 2). Clah
was one of the earliest house heads to cut down the crest pole in 1871. Fif-
teen years later as the Gispaxlo’ots were welcoming Paul Legaic II back
from Metlakatla they discussed whether they should cut down the Ligeex
crest pole and replace...
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