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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 525–548.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to imagine that traditional indigenous territories often coincided with old rubber outposts, derelict haciendas , missionary stations, and abandoned oil camps. Nor did researchers envision the maelstrom that had taken place fifty years earlier, when native families were forced to collect rubber throughout...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 750–752.
Published: 01 October 2019
... will probably be unconvinced by his overthinking of the term rubber boom . Generally speaking, it refers to a specific period of wild rubber production (roughly 1870–1910 in Brazil; 1885–1930 upriver toward the Andes), not a stereotype of long-term economic failure. Still, for readers who want to make...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Oscar Aponte Abstract The Amazon rubber boom (1850–1930) devastated Indigenous nations that had remained for centuries at the borders of European empires and the nation-states that replaced them in South America. The arrival of the Peruvian rubber company Casa Arana to the Igaraparaná...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 April 2018
... centuries. The rubber boom was a needle’s eye through which they had to pass as they formulated their modern ethnic identity. Van Valen has given us another essential chapter in that story. And herein lies the problem with Van Valen’s view of agency. “There can be no doubt,” he writes, “that the former...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 421–444.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Robert Wasserstrom; Susan Reider; Rommel Lara Alternately hunted and ignored while they were alive, the Tetete were a small group of Western Tucanoan speakers living in the Amazonian borderlands between Ecuador and Colombia. From 1877 through the 1920s, Ecuadorian rubber collectors shot...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 755–766.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Seth Garfield American Society for Ethnohistory 2000 Review Essays
Recent Works on Amazonian Indians
Seth Garfield, Bowdoin College
Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest
Amazonia, By Michael Edward Stanfield. (Albuquerque: Uni-
versity of New...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 731–746.
Published: 01 October 2000
... to demonize the Ye’kuana as enslavers of the Yanomama, it is impor-
tant to emphasize that peaceful relations have prevailed between the two
peoples for half a century.
Nelly Arvelo-Jiménez
The Rubber Boom Threatens Cultural
Continuity ss)
The social...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 381–401.
Published: 01 July 2001
... and fish-
ing. Early in the twentieth century, Kayabi communities were located along
the Peixes and Teles Pires Rivers (tributaries of the Tapajós River) in the
Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Pará. During the past four decades,
however, with the influx of rubber tappers, miners, ranchers...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 January 2018
... they were expelled from Ecuador and Peru, they had founded seventy-four missions. “Until a few decades ago,” begins María Susana Cipolletti in her fascinating book, “it was generally assumed that cultural change came late to lowland South America, during the Rubber Boom [1875–1930]. Thus native...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., Europeans learned about rubber
processing, terrace farming, the suspension bridge, the canoe and kayak,
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and barbeque. The movement of information, material, and technology was
multidirectional; Europeans brought west horses, cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 550–552.
Published: 01 July 2001
... to ambitious headmen and war leaders by the Spanish mission-
aries, rubber barons, coffee growers, and modern-day Peruvian agencies
against the forces of resistance, including ideological ones. Strathern’s dis-
cussion of the resurgent blood revenge among the Mount Hagen tribes,
characterized...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 552–555.
Published: 01 July 2001
... and war leaders by the Spanish mission-
aries, rubber barons, coffee growers, and modern-day Peruvian agencies
against the forces of resistance, including ideological ones. Strathern’s dis-
cussion of the resurgent blood revenge among the Mount Hagen tribes,
characterized by the increasing use...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
... their previous contact with
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rubber tappers and their work with the Villas-Bôas brothers, the Kaiabi
acquired valuable social skills. In addition to learning Portuguese, some
men received formal education in FUNAI’s school...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 805–810.
Published: 01 October 2014
... Commemorations 607
Tovías, Blanca. The Right to Possess Memory: Winter Counts of the
Blackfoot, 1830–1937 99
Wasserstrom, Robert. Surviving the Rubber Boom: Cofán and Siona
Society in the Colombia-Ecuador Borderlands (1875–1955) 525
Williams, Linda K. The Birth of the Virgin with Saint...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 761–765.
Published: 01 October 2003
...-
nous peoples in the first half of the nineteenth century I have seen. He also
discusses at length the ‘‘holocaust’’ of the rubber boom at the end of the
nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Xavier Albó exam...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 705–729.
Published: 01 October 2000
..., were able to gain legal title to vast tracts of
land. With the expansion of extractive industries such as rubber and sarra-
pia (tonka bean) (Dipteryx sp at the close of the nineteenth century and
into the early part of the twentieth century many indigenous communities
in the Venezuelan Amazon were...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 141–162.
Published: 01 January 2012
... ): 191 – 211 . Reeve Mary-Elizabeth 1988a Los Quichuas del Curaray: El proceso de formación de la identidad . Quito : Abya-Yala . 1988b Cauchu Uras: Lowland Quichua Histories of the Amazon Rubber Boom . In Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 747–754.
Published: 01 October 2000
...-raiding
and land invasions by the Sanuma, an indigenous people living immedi-
ately south of Ye’kuana lands. A period of warfare lasted until the s,
when the Ye’kuana made peace with the Sanuma and allowed them to settle
in their territory. The regime of forced labor during the rubber boom also...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 87–121.
Published: 01 April 2001
... the island’s southern landscape from their ships, noticed prickly pear
growing within an extensive area as village and cropped land enclosures
as far back as 1819 (Decary 1934: 49, 1939: 156). Buyers of rubber, cattle...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
..., is like no other pictorialization of that month
and differs substantially from the descriptions in most texts (fig. 3). Here
is a group of pilgrims, some bearing children on their backs, who carry
offerings including food, bundles of wood, and paper objects spattered with
rubber. They approach...
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