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The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 359–392.
Published: 01 July 2011
... . Elmendorf William W. 1993 Twana Narratives: Native Historical Accounts of a Coast Salish Culture . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press . Ferguson R. Brian 1983 Warfare and Redistributive Exchange on the Northwest Coast . In The Development of Political Organization...
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“Adaptive Resistance,” Conservation, and Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Contradictions of Political Organization and Empowerment in the Kaiabi Diaspora
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
... discuss contradictions of political empowerment and strengthening of indigenous organizations in the Amazon, which may also lead to trade-offs and to the risk of dependence on outside funds and agents. Multicultural organization and alliances provide important platforms to the adaptive resistance...
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New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 353–355.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Sarahh Scher New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization . By Quilter Jeffrey and Butters Luis Jaime Castillo . ( Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection , 2010 . xv + 388 pp., bibliography, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American...
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Cultural Evolution, Political Organization, and Ritual Practice in the Central Andes
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 713–724.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., Political Organization, and
Ritual Practice in the Central Andes
Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. By Thomas...
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Seneca Moieties and Hereditary Chieftainships: The Early-Nineteenth-Century Political Organization of an Iroquois Nation
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 459–488.
Published: 01 July 2004
... Organization. In The Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies . Steadman Upham, ed. Pp. 62 -86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Buffalo Courier 1851 [Clipping.] Ely S. Parker Papers . Library, American Philosophical Society,Philadelphia. Campisi, Jack...
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“God Save the King of the Mosquito Nation!” Indigenous Leaders on the Fringe of the Spanish Empire
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Miskitu political organization underwent significant change over time as a result of the fluctuating influence of the colonial powers (Spain and England) that sought hegemony in the region. This article will therefore periodize Miskitu leadership patterns, taking into account the influence of the colonial...
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The Making of Regional Systems: The Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá Regions in the Lower Brazilian Amazon, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and political organization. Following Hal Langfur, we can term this general making of spaces a re-territorialization. Critical social relations include those between Amerindian ethnic entities and their leaders, soldiers, and missionaries. This article focuses on a key spatial relation between Amerindian...
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Continuity and Change in Early Colonial Maya Community Governance: A Lexical Perspective
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 683–726.
Published: 01 October 2011
... world shed light on Maya political organization of this period as well as on larger issues of the construction of difference and the dynamism of these systems. In particular, this article explores two questions: First, how did systems of community governance operate in this era, and to what extent did...
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Classic-to-Contact-Period Continuities in Maya Governance in Central Petén, Guatemala
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and Postclassic political forms was only partial, and numerous structures and practices of late Petén Itza Maya geopolitical organization can be seen in earlier Classic-period phenomena. These underscore long-term continuities in governance strategies. Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018...
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“Coyote Broke the Dams”: Power, Reciprocity, and Conflict in Fish Weir Narratives and Implications for Traditional and Contemporary Fisheries
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 191–220.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of Production and Archaeology , edited by Rosenswig Robert M. and Cunningham Jerimy J. , 52 – 74 . Gainesville : University of Florida Press . Angelbeck Bill , and McLay Eric . 2011 . “ The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization through Oral...
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For a Dynamic Approach to the Social Organization of the Carib of Inner Eastern Guiana: An Overview of Wayana Ethnosociogenesis
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 507–542.
Published: 01 July 2006
... shows that a system of social organization based on totemic
ancestor clans has long existed among the Carib of eastern Guiana, and more
particularly the Wayana. This system so far has been ignored by researchers in
spite of its heuristic interest. In addition to its political and historical richness...
View articletitled, For a Dynamic Approach to the Social <span class="search-highlight">Organization</span> of the Carib of Inner Eastern Guiana: An Overview of Wayana Ethnosociogenesis
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Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, vol. 2: Data and Case Studies
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 October 2003
... resource for scholars seeking
to understand the political organization of Prehispanic Maya society. The
authors in this volume take the concept of the Maya court as introduced in
volume 1 and explore the full range of archaeological...
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Finding the Almouchiquois: Native American Families, Territories, and Land Sales in Southern Maine
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 73–100.
Published: 01 January 2004
... those very rare
forged deeds.15
Admittedly, present-day scholars will never have the understanding
they would like of Wabanaki social or political organization in the seven-
teenth century. There is an inherent bias in the data, for virtually the only
names that survive for these people...
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Rivers of Power: Creek Political Culture in the Native South, 1750–1815
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 April 2025
... 2025 Historians and anthropologists studying the Native South have long aimed to explain eighteenth-century Creek political organization. They agree that Creek peoples prioritized local governance, allowing individual clans and communities to exercise autonomous decision-making that influenced...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Debra McDougall Outside agencies working in the Solomon Islands—whether a postwar land commission or a late-twentieth-century global environmental organization—have consistently called for the clarification of property rights as the necessary starting point for any form of economic development...
View articletitled, The Unintended Consequences of Clarification: Development, Disputing, and the Dynamics of Community in Ranongga, Solomon Islands
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Fit for War: Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 340–341.
Published: 01 April 2018
... system structured the political organization of the Nassaw-Weyapee and Charraw towns. Shared beliefs worked to solidify a spiritually and politically balanced relationship among the towns with Nassaw serving as a white town (senior, united, and peaceful) and Charraw a red town (junior, disunity...
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Slaves without Masters? Arawakan Dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 689–714.
Published: 01 October 2006
... -58. Hirsch, Silvia 1991 Political Organization among the Izoceño Indians of Bolivia. PhD diss. , University of California-Los Angeles. Langer, Erick 1995 [1989] Mandeponay: Jefe indígena chiriguano en las misiones franciscanas. In Chiriguano . Jürgen Riester, ed. Pp. 227 -53. Santa...
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Remembering the Slave Rebellion of Coro: Historical Memory and Politics in Venezuela
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 327–350.
Published: 01 April 2016
... discourses of ethnoracial struggle, cultural syncretism, bodily suffering, and social exclusion. Recently, communal organizations in the region have begun to connect it to contemporary anti-imperialist and socialist projects. We argue that historical memories have mobilized political identities at different...
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Web of Kinship: Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the Northern Cheyenne kinship system, the social relations that underlie identity and the mechanism through which Northern Cheyenne people mobilize for their collective interests. In chapters 2 and 3, Hill elucidates the ways reciprocal kinship relations structured social interactions, political organization...
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What Is Ethnohistory?: A Sixty-Year Retrospective
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 145–162.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., missionaries, Native Americans, political organization, race, religion, settlement patterns, and sociality. We devoted a final category to the data sources employed in the articles. Again, after reviewing the forms of data reported during free-form coding, we generated a well-defined list of eight data...
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