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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 175–176.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Brian D. Carroll Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History . Edited by Shoemaker Nancy . ( Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2014 . 232 pp., afterword, appendix, notes, index . $80.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Copyright 2016...
View articletitled, Living with Whales: Documents and <span class="search-highlight">Oral</span> <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span> of Native New England Whaling <span class="search-highlight">History</span>
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 359–392.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of the household, while revealing persistent tensions between alliance and autonomy. Moreover, the stories of the battle and its aftermath provide insights into Coast Salish protocols for enacting justice and resolving conflict. This article aims to demonstrate the utility of oral histories for contributing...
View articletitled, The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through <span class="search-highlight">Oral</span> <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span>
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 409–410.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the devastation brought by European diseases. In all, changes ushered in by ties with the Dutch had far-reaching consequences for inter-Indigenous and Indigenous-European relations in North America’s history. This accessible read will appeal to historians, historical archaeologists, and even amateur scholars...
View articletitled, Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America: What Archaeology, <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, and Indigenous <span class="search-highlight">Oral</span> Traditions Teach Us about Their Intercultural Relationships
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 609–636.
Published: 01 July 2004
... and Power in Pre-national Buddhist States. Modern Asian Studies 27 : 843 -70. Vansina, Jan 1965 Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1985 Oral Tradition as History . London:James Currey. van Till, Margreet 1996 In Search of Si Pitung...
View articletitled, Punitive Expeditions and Divine Revenge: <span class="search-highlight">Oral</span> and Colonial <span class="search-highlight">Histories</span> of Rebellion and Pacification in Western Borneo, 1886-1902
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (3): 469–483.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Bathsheba Demuth This article addresses the relationship between the Vuntut Gwitchin and the Canadian state during the early twentieth century. Although this was a moment of increasing contact with nonindigenous people, the Gwitchin refer to this period in their oral histories as being particularly...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 101–127.
Published: 01 January 2018
... supernatural creatures ( stl’aleqem ). Relying on local oral traditions, regional archaeology, and local ethnographies, the article argues that these specific locations had very ancient roots in Tsleil-Waututh history but were marked in the early contact period with red paint by Tsleil-Waututh ritualists...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 545–582.
Published: 01 July 2002
...Eduardo O. Kohn In this article I compare the Quichua oral history of Oyacachi—one of the last autochthonous settlements of the cloud forest of Amazonian Ecuador—with written and iconographic ecclesiastical traditions regarding colonial-era events. This offers a unique opportunity to understand...
View articletitled, Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest: A Backwoods <span class="search-highlight">History</span> of Ecuador's Montaña Region
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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 (2015) 62 (4): 751–779.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Sean S. Downey This study reconstructs the settlement history for twelve related Q'eqchi' Maya villages in the Toledo District of southern Belize using oral history interviews, archival records, and the Catholic parish birth register. The study evaluates two hypotheses for explaining the identified...
View articletitled, Q'eqchi' Maya Swidden Agriculture, Settlement <span class="search-highlight">History</span>, and Colonial Enterprise in Modern Belize
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and their participation, through an examination of US military records, Kiowa ledger art, oral histories, onomastics, photographs, and an unpublished account from Kein-taddle of her husband’s (Chiefs Call Him) participation and later naming of three family members from his personal war actions in the battle. The account...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 697–705.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Russell Thornton Many Native American peoples of the Plains kept oral histories in which periods of time were designated by events. Often pictorial recordings of these events were created as mnemonic devices to assist proper memory, which itself was some-times recorded in written language...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 101–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Jajuan Johnson Context The oral history interview with Mr. Elmer Beard, a longtime political activist, politician, and educator, is part of a series of interviews for a study on Black church burnings, arsons, and vandalism from 2008 to 2016. Mr. Beard gives historical context to recent Black church...
View articletitled, An Interview with Elmer Beard: Remembrances of Black Activism, Communal Solidarity, and the Burning of Roanoke Baptist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., issues of transnational contacts between indigenous people and colonial governments, the dynamic decisions that native leaders made in difficult situations, and the importance of indigenous oral histories in documenting the past. Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 “Search...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 January 2013
... of young Indians who used greater exposure to the off-reservation world as an avenue toward better education and economic opportunities. Drawing on handwritten letters from native people, relocation subject files, oral histories, and archival sources, this article is an attempt at a fresh analysis of both...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 523–569.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Alaska few people are aware of it. Local oral histories tell of the war, and archaeological and historical sources provide complementary details. This article documents war events and techniques for war for one specific area: the Triangle in Yup'ik Alaska. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 257–291.
Published: 01 April 2001
... motivations in the use and manipulation of Mikea identity. Those who claim the label for themselves generally construct a relationship with the forest, either through present behavior and context or through oral histories linking the living with the ancestors. Nevertheless,behavior and descent may...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 July 2001
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settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oral history of the contem-
porary Houma traces the group’s origin to Native Americans of the Houma and
other tribes who moved into the bayou country of southeastern Louisiana during
the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. However...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 535–565.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Chad Haines Between 1846 and 1947, the British colonial state in India forged a region out of the western Karakoram Mountains, which it labeled in 1889 as the Gilgit Agency. Through an analysis of maps, colonial representations, local writings,and oral histories, this article critically examines...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 163–185.
Published: 01 January 2009
...? Oral History as a Changing Phenomenon. In We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom . Pp. 160 -74. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. Hornborg, Alf 2006 Animism, Fetishism, and Objectivism as Strategies for Knowing (or Not Knowing...
View articletitled, Space, Time, and Story Tracks: Contemporary Practices of Topographic Memory in the Palikur Territory of Arukwa, Amapá, Brazil
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 731–746.
Published: 01 October 2000
... coherence and continuity amid severe political upheaval. Data gathering combined oral accounts for a period of about 120 years and the elicitation and reconstruction of genealogies in the migrating history of villages for as long as 230 years of Ye'kuana history. What makes this analysis different from...
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