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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 35–67.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Anna J. Willow Since December 2002 members of Grassy Narrows First Nation have maintained a blockade to slow the pace of clear-cut logging in their traditional territory. This article situates contemporary anti-clear-cutting activism at Grassy Narrows in its ethnohistorical and ethnopolitical...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 765–783.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Laura E. Matthew; Sergio F. Romero Nahuatl has often been described as a lingua franca in colonial Central America, but this conclusion has rested on a narrow range of Spanish and Nahuatl-language documents. In this article we broaden the evidentiary base, analyzing a corpus of forty-six Nahuatl...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and of the implications of the interchanges that took place among them. Although the book is much narrower in geographic scope than its ambitious title promises, it neverthe- less makes an important contribution to the comparatively narrow area of the Americas it does discuss. Editor David Buisseret contributes...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 359–392.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., or “Open–Mouthed,” lived in a cave at Octopus Point at the southern entrance to Maple Bay, where it would swamp canoes traveling through Sansum Narrows with its tongue, drown- ing and devouring travelers in the tidal rapids and whirlpools. Smaqw’uts The Battle at Maple Bay...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 January 2004
... aspects of the process of interaction among peoples from the Americas, Africa, and Europe and of the implications of the interchanges that took place among them. Although the book is much narrower in geographic scope than its ambitious title promises, it neverthe- less makes an important contribution...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 187–193.
Published: 01 January 2009
... a narrow focus on the military con- quest of Mexico to consider the colonial societies that arose in its wake and the manner in which the events of the conquest were reenvisioned by later generations. J. Michael Francis, Matthew Restall, and Florine Assel- Ethnohistory 56:1 (Winter 2009)  DOI...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 April 2023
... a narrow but dominant formulation of “universal rights” and reconstruct a more representative universalism. This requires, for example, deconstructing what I call the “tyranny of possessive individualism” in human rights discourse by paying more attention to collective rights entitlements (Ibhawoh 2020...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 607–608.
Published: 01 July 2019
... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2019 Donald L. Fixico opens “That’s What They Used to Say:” Reflections on Native American Oral Traditions by informing the reader that the book is not an academic text. He is correct: it is much more than this. The text is at once narrow and broad, focusing...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 525–526.
Published: 01 July 2018
... us to suspend our narrow methods of interpreting historical documents and turn toward what he terms a “speculative” reading (29) in the Hegelian tradition. Whereas historians once advocated for “reading against the grain,” Kazanjian asks us to go one step further and “overread” archival letters...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 547–548.
Published: 01 October 2017
... that will be valuable to readers in the evolving field of New Conquest History, and also to those who study ground-level state formation in the independence period. Barry Robinson’s study of conquest, settlement, and rebellion is geographically narrow, chronologically deep, and thematically rich. At its center...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 October 2023
...). As a challenge to the vestigial “facile stagism” of so-called primitive accumulation, her point is well taken (177). But its wider application is itself somewhat narrow, as Brophy leaves unaddressed those Indigenous scholars and activists who articulate theories of dispossession that center the theft of land...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 395–396.
Published: 01 April 2019
...’ resistance to abandoning those practices. Over time these traditions gradually gave way to Spaniards’ narrower models of proper marriage and sexuality, which restructured social relations and constrained women’s ability to leave an abusive marriage. In a separate chapter on marital relations, Sousa looks...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 397–398.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and luck combined to offer opportunities for modest success—most often as artisans, muleteers, and ranch hands. Women’s options, on the other hand, proved far narrower. These conclusions are certainly reasonable, though Schwaller is pressing against the admitted limits of his source base, especially its...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and of resistance to hegemonic dominance, including that appropriated by intratribal politi- cal discourse. At the same time, both are essential to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Way today. Although dichotomous constructs and a too-narrow gaze interfere with the project, Fowler’s assiduous documentation...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 553–554.
Published: 01 October 2017
... Zender, Jorge Pérez de Lara, Stanley Guenter). The descriptive efforts in these chapters would have benefited from clear color photographs or line drawings of the paintings. Ironically, the archaeological reports are the least engaging of the lot. One gets a sense of the caves as dark, narrow geological...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to conventions to preserve their culture. One wonders, however, how significant the culture of antiquated formulas and phrasings was. Does the archaic English of modern-day wills say anything significant outside of the narrow professional culture of lawyers and notaries? In a beautifully written final...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 579–580.
Published: 01 July 2016
....) Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Ian K. Steele has again produced one of the most important and deeply researched works on eighteenth-century European-Indian relations. Setting All the Captives Free is by no means a narrow study of captivity. Rather, Steele places captives...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 831–833.
Published: 01 October 2000
... indigenous forms of expression, in Cifuentes’s view alphabetic writing introduced a rigidity into indige- nous forms of discourse, narrowing and fixing their capacity for expres- sion. Other types of texts reinforced this transition from a flexible and open orality to a fixed emphasis on the written...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., the intensive, earth-shattering impact of trade policies and the reeling predicaments of people who know how to do something well. Fitting presents a struggle for maize in macroscopic and microscopic lenses, wide and narrow angles on Mexico, and in and through ethnographic details the big stories resonate...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 145–162.
Published: 01 January 2019
... it is that ethnohistorians do? (2) What are the trends in research topics through time? (3) Has the geographic focus changed through time, and if so, how? and, (4) Has there been a change in who chooses to publish in Ethnohistory ? One thing is clear from our survey, ethnohistory is no longer the narrow field of US/Native...
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