...William A. Starna; José António Brandão American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 From the Mohawk-Mahican War to the Beaver Wars: Questioning the Pattern William A. Starna, State University of New York, College at Oneonta José António Brandão, Western Michigan University...

...Jodie A. O'Gorman In a 1969 Ethnohistory article James Fitting and Charles Cleland developed an ethnographic model derived from the Potawatomi Pattern of large, semipermanent villages with an emphasis on corn agriculture to interpret earlier cultural adaptations within the Carolinian biotic...

...Douglas V. Armstrong; Kenneth G. Kelly Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville...

... del noroeste de Venezuela. In Chiefdoms in the Americas . Robert Drennan and Carlos Uribe, eds. Pp. 187 -200. Lanham, md: University Press of America. Trigger, Bruce 1968 The Determinants of Settlement Patterns. In Settlement Archaeology . Kwang-chi Chang,ed. Palo Alto, ca: National Press Books...

...Rebecca B. Bateman This article examines naming patterns in relation to the origins of the Black Seminoles, or Seminole Maroons. It argues that the data on Black Seminole naming represent substantial evidence for the existence of African-derived naming practices with features similar to those...

..., and theories do things: they formulate speech acts that structure (among other things) patterns of settlement and modes of subjecting Indians’’ (28).They thus contributed to what Rabasa calls a ‘‘cul- ture of conquest ‘‘a set of beliefs, images, and categories that tends to determine the ideology not only...

... encounters. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-075 Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders. By Teresa J. Wilkins. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiv +248 pp., illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.) Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico...

... patterns: carrying capacity, which suggests that increasing village populations and environmental limits drove new settlements, and political ecology, which suggests that exogenous economic forces determined the timing and location of new settlements. The analysis indicates that villages rarely encountered...

... to the present reveals a pattern marked by oscillations between hostilities and cautious friendship. These shifts are expressed in varied social relations described in the anthropological and historical scholarship on Amazonia, ranging from shamanic attack to marriage alliances. The paper explores this history...

...Elinore M. Barrett One way to measure the impact of the first phase of Spanish colonization(1598-1680) on the Rio Grande Pueblo peoples of New Mexico is to trace changes in the number and location pattern of their settlements (pueblos). During this period 62 percent of their pueblos were abandoned...

..., literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole identities play a significant role in shaping local patterns of illicit earning. By extending the notion of creole adaptations...

...Victoria R. Bricker; Rebecca E. Hill Dense collections of eighteenth-century wills and death registers from Tekanto and Ixil, two towns in northern Yucatan, represent hitherto unexplored sources for documenting the relationship between natural disasters and mortality patterns among the Yucatecan...

...Loretta Fowler This essay examines the lives of four Arapahos whose experiences are broadly representative of the life-career patterns of their cohorts during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that in the American encounter, individuals and groups challenged both American...

..., language ideology, and multileveled semiotic functioning. As the illustrations discussed here suggest, writing and other forms of graphic representation powerfully connect the ideological and material cultural realms, and their patterns of use (including production, distribution, circulation...

... the demographic parameters of life at Santa Catalina as well as the ethnolinguistic composition of the mission's indigenous population. This analysis points to two important patterns that likely had implications for the persistence of native identity at the mission. First, the mission's native population does...

... the importance of routes,the politics of linkages, and the structuring of circulation in producing a regional space and transforming it over time. This article argues that space is constituted through access and patterns of circulation as well as the cartographic project defining borders. The structuring...

...Yvonne P. Hajda During the early contact period (1792-1830), distinct patterns of social organization made slavery in the region centered on the lower Columbia River somewhat different from slavery found farther north along the Northwest Coast. The maximal Northwest Coast culture area was a two...