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The Jamestown Project

Sheri M. Shuck-Hall
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 686–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-026
Published: 01 October 2008
... the Highlanders. After detailing the similarities between Highland Gaelic and Native American cultures and describing the society’s educational projects on Ethnohistory 55:4 (Fall 2008) Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 674...
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Figure 3. From left, Arikara project participants Jerry White, Rodney Howling Wolf, and Duane Fox review a map of Nishu drawn by former resident Ervin Plenty Chief Sr. in 2001. Photo by Wendi Field Murray

From left, Arikara project participants Jerry White, Rodney Howling Wolf, a...

in Remembering Nishu: Spatiality and Belonging in the Missouri River Bottomlands > Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 3. From left, Arikara project participants Jerry White, Rodney Howling Wolf, and Duane Fox review a map of Nishu drawn by former resident Ervin Plenty Chief Sr. in 2001. Photo by Wendi Field Murray More
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Rural Castas , State Projects, and Ethnic Transformation in Western Guatemala, 1800–1821

Stacey Schwartzkopf
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 721–747.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2313885
Published: 01 October 2013
... repeatedly struggled with and adapted themselves to the identities promoted in state projects during the early nineteenth century, with enduring effects on later ethnic relations. Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 References Carmack Robert M. 1995 Rebels of Highland...
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Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

Terry Rugeley
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 662–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1587604
Published: 01 July 2012
...Terry Rugeley Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill . By Laveaga Gabriela Soto . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . xiv + 235 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index . $23.95 paper, $84.95 cloth...
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A Brief History of Research at Koobi Fora, Northern Kenya

John M. Harris, Meave G. Leakey, Francis H. Brown
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 35–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-1-35
Published: 01 January 2006
... but thereafter mounted their own multinational and multidisciplinary expeditions to the Kenyan part of the Lake Turkana basin. The Koobi Fora sand spit on the east side of the lake served as the National Museums' field headquarters for the Koobi Fora Research Project on that side of the lake, the subsequent West...
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The Personal Politics of Action and Applied Anthropology

Daniel M. Cobb
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 537–563.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7517940
Published: 01 July 2019
... Indian Affairs, Carnegie Corporation Cross-Cultural Education Project, and Kansas Indian Education Research Project during the 1960s. It illuminates some of the interior dimensions of these two expressions of public-facing engaged scholarship. 1 Here Warrior zeroed in on an idea central...
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Legal Ethnohistory in Rural Bolivia: Documentary Culture and Social History in the norte de Potosí

Mark Goodale
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 583–609.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-3-583
Published: 01 July 2002
... methodological and nonmethodological problems. The ethnohistorical researcher should identify,and distinguish between, the two in order to develop and pursue an effective project. Although fraught with uncertainties, ethnohistorical research projects involving rural legal archives can yield insights into local...
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“You Here, Don’t Do It This Way”: Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún’s Nahuatl Sermons of the House

Berenice Alcántara, Pedro A. Muñoz
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 145–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10999129
Published: 01 April 2024
...Berenice Alcántara; Pedro A. Muñoz Abstract Bernardino de Sahagún is well known for having headed a major research project about the Nahuas of Central Mexico in the sixteenth century. However, many years before this project began, Sahagún wrote several sets of sermons in the Nahuatl language...
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For a Dynamic Approach to the Social Organization of the Carib of Inner Eastern Guiana: An Overview of Wayana Ethnosociogenesis

Jean Chapuis
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 507–542.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-003
Published: 01 July 2006
... political and historical richness, the approach here, which attempts to capture how social structures have changed since the encounter with Westerners, allows for a better grasp of identity's role as a motivating force in Wayana society. The completion of the project called for here will require well...
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“White & Clean” & Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War

Joshua A. Piker
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 315–347.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-2-315
Published: 01 April 2003
...Joshua A. Piker In the last generation, scholars intent on removing “tribe”from their narratives of colonial-era Native American history have repeatedly invoked “community” in its place. This development notwithstanding, community-centered projects are rare; Indian towns now appear...
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Welcome to This House: A Century of Makah People Honoring Identity and Negotiating Cultural Tourism

Patricia Pierce Erikson
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 523–547.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-3-523
Published: 01 July 2003
... as a significant space for cross-cultural encounters where material culture is a central element in the Makah self-representational project. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 American Indian Museum Studies Program 1996 Directory of North American Tribal Museums . Washington,dc: Smithsonian Center...
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Power in Stone: The Long-Distance Movement of Building Blocks in the Inca Empire

Dennis Ogburn
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-1-101
Published: 01 January 2004
... Martín de Murúa. Additional passages from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles suggest that the Incas carried out a number of such projects to bring stones from Cuzco to the northern part of the empire. These stones embodied the transfer of sanctity and power from the imperial capital...
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Colonial Routes: Reorienting the Northern Frontier of British India

Chad Haines
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 535–565.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-3-535
Published: 01 July 2004
... 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...
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“This Book Is Your Book”: Jesuit Editorial Policy and Individual Indigenous Reading in Eighteenth-Century Paraguay

Capucine Boidin, Leonardo Cerno, Fabián R. Vega
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 247–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8025304
Published: 01 April 2020
... warnings to readers reveal that it follows the structure of Ignacio de Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises . The authors of this article demonstrate that by the mid-eighteenth century, the Jesuit project was to produce an indigenous reader and devotee in the modern sense (individual reading and personal...
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Clear-Cutting and Colonialism: The Ethnopolitical Dynamics of Indigenous Environmental Activism in Northwestern Ontario

Anna J. Willow
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 35–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-035
Published: 01 January 2009
..., it suggests that acknowledging indigenous environmental activism as a fundamentally political project challenges stereotypical images of ecological nobility and, concurrently, calls into question mainstream conceptions of a just modern society that has long since done away with colonialism. American Society...
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“You See Your Culture Coming Out of the Ground Like a Power”: Uncanny Narratives in Time and Space on the Northwest Coast

Colleen E. Boyd
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 699–731.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-027
Published: 01 October 2009
...Colleen E. Boyd In 2003, construction began on a graving dock that would bring marine projects to the Olympic Peninsula and provide family-wage jobs. It appeared to be a good fit for the city of Port Angeles, Washington, and its surrounding communities. Shortly after construction began, workers...
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Seeking Spatial Representation: Reflections on Participatory Ethnohistorical GIS Mapping of Maidu Allotment Lands

Elisabeth Rose Middleton
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 363–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-002
Published: 01 July 2010
... continue to change hands today—via hydroelectric and timber projects, conservation initiatives, and housing developments—knowing their location is important for protecting cultural resources and for asserting the significance of Maidu participation in environmental stewardship. A GIS layer of Indian...
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What Is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History

Jean M. O'Brien, Lisa Blee
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 635–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2717804
Published: 01 October 2014
.... Given the historical location of the Pokanoket in what came to be called New England, what are we to make of the erection of this monument, in fact a replica of the Plymouth monument designed by sculptor Cyrus Dallin in 1921, as a project of civic-minded non-Indians hundreds of miles away in 1979? Using...
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Common Justice: Vengeance and Retribution in Creek Country

Evan Nooe
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 241–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2854304
Published: 01 April 2015
...Evan Nooe Through the 1700s and early 1800s, Creek nationalism had the potential to both assert political autonomy and devolve into catastrophe. Projected externally, Creek nationalism engaged Euro-Americans and afforded room for local negotiation among towns and clans. However, the nationalist...
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Alphabetic Literacy and Colonial Process in Yucatán

William F. Hanks
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 651–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890286
Published: 01 July 2015
... that made alphabetic writing a productive part of the project of reducción also made it impossible to control once introduced among the Maya. Alphabetic Literacy and Colonial Process in Yucatán William F. Hanks, University of California, Berkeley Abstract. The article outlines the formation...
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