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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
... especially on sacrificial wooden objects as representations of religious space, discussing three sacrificial sites from different periods and representing a geographical gradient. We conclude that wooden sacrificial sites were still frequent and prominent features of the Sami landscape during the seventeenth...
View articletitled, Värro Muorra : The Landscape Significance of Sami Sacred Wooden <span class="search-highlight">Objects</span> and Sacrificial Altars
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 541–542.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Alejandra Dubcovsky The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast . By Stern Jessica Yirush ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . xv+250pp., acknowledgments, appendix, bibliography, index . $29.95...
View articletitled, The Lives in <span class="search-highlight">Objects</span>: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of collections that include exotic animals, books and antiquities, and skeletal remains. This article examines the practices and collecting technologies of the expedition to suggest that the objects collected as well as the technologies and practices used in collecting helped fashion Machu Picchu into a “lost...
View articletitled, Collecting a “Lost City” For Science: Huaquero Vision and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions to Machu Picchu, 1911, 1912, and 1914–15
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Published: 01 April 2021
Figure 8. Shashia, “head chief” of the Cowichan, painted by Paul Kane in April 1847. Source: collections.rom.on.ca/objects/222388/sawcea-cowichan-central-coast-salish (accessed 2 September 2020).
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 October 2003
... and tourist site of Chichén Itzá. A descriptive history of the town, mostly based in secondary literature and key primary sources from archives, is presented with two goals in mind. The first objective is to address ethnographically specific questions regarding the politics of this community, including...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 589–633.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Timothy J. Shannon Since the colonial era, the tomahawk has served as a symbol of Indian savagery in American arts and literature. The pipe tomahawk, however, tells a different story. From its backcountry origins as a trade good to its customization as a diplomatic device, this object facilitated...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 13–30.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Jeanne Dina In this article Masikoro identity is linked to the Sakalava of western and northwestern Madagascar. An analysis that associates two ritual objects, the hazomanga (a wooden pole symbolizing a lineage, sometimes shaped like a cross,upon which sacrificial blood is consecrated to ones raza...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 167–189.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Kathryn Magee Labelle Abstract Éléonore Sioui was born in 1920—the same year that the Canadian deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, proclaimed infamously, “Our object is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of early travelers to the lake pursued objectives such as hunting, scientific inquiry, and furthering the aims of colonial powers, they also frequently derived self-satisfaction from having “reached” this iconic geographic space. An examination of some of these travelers' experiences reveals the centrality...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 101–135.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Dennis Ogburn This article analyzes the objectives and implications of the long-distance transport of building blocks in the Inca Empire. Recent research has demonstrated that the Incas transported building stones from Cuzco, Peru, to Saraguro, Ecuador, much as described by the Spanish chronicler...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 409–435.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Alvarado (1485–1541) in attaining imperial objectives. Scrutiny of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan , a sixteenth-century source the contents of which have been incisively reappraised, affords fuller appreciation of strategic Indian involvement in the act of subjugation. Alvarado, a key protagonist...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
... attempts to construct them as colonial animals who functioned solely as scientific or material objects in empire making. Copyright 2020 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2020 birds wild animal trade colonial Mesoamerica natural history Atlantic world When a port inspector in Cádiz...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 689–719.
Published: 01 October 2019
... periods. Striking commonalities, as noted, are those that link weaving activities with pregnancy and childbirth. Additionally, objects and iconography related to women and birth—in the form of serpents, umbilical cords, and ropes—tie the act of birth to primordial creation events and highlight...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 July 2020
... explores a series of meanings that Nahuas attached to birds, plumes, and feather objects when worn on the body, exchanged in rituals, and discussed in historical accounts. It argues that while Nahuas clearly appreciated feathers for their aesthetic value, they also used them to tell histories of Nahua...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
... eastern Indians,especially the Botocudo and the Puri. By carefully examining the comportment of both colonizers and colonized, it elucidates how each employed various forms of violence to achieve and communicate incompatible objectives. In particular, the peculiarities of the encroaching slave-holding...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 203–227.
Published: 01 April 2008
... sacred objects they had viewed at a major exhibit of Haitian Vodou art. Discussion of this incident is illuminated by memoirs of travel and other texts by experts who participated in the birth of Haitian ethnology, tourism, and Vodou art during the mid-twentieth century's “golden age of Haitian tourism...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Walter E. Little This essay discusses how Mayas, and visual images of them as discursively constructed subjects/objects, are located in dictator Jorge Ubico's economic development and modernization policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Ubico's contradictory policies of promoting Maya essentialness...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 505–536.
Published: 01 July 2013
... objects of great importance to the leaders, who held them closely and brought them out to show to other important Euro-American visitors. After 1867, US military officers observed that when they encountered Tlingit leaders, they were regularly shown papers from traders in exceptional condition. US...
View articletitled, Unreciprocated “Reverence”: “Papers,” Political Recognition, and Tlingit Engagement with US Governmentality in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 761–784.
Published: 01 October 2014
... by an Anglo-American trucker. Though both of these stories reflect traditions that were marginalized by academic archaeology, they reflect very different experiences with the ruins as either physical objects or textual creations. This in turn has important implications for the politics of contemporary...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 April 2015
... and the mid-seventeenth century. The sociopolitical environment that prevailed along the seventeenth-century colonial frontier in Belize suggests that the sword was acquired by the Maya by peaceful or bellicose interactions with Europeans, whereas the archaeological contexts in which the European-made objects...
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