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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (3): 399.
Published: 01 August 1946
...S. F. Cook Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 The Effect of Smallpox on the Destiny of the Amerindian . By Stearn E. Wagner and Stearn Allen E. . ( Boston : Bruce Humphries, Inc. , 1945 . Pp. 153 . $2.50 .) ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 695–696.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Suzanne Austin Alchon Disease and Death in Early Colonial Mexico: Simulating Amerindian Depopulation . By Whitmore Thomas M. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1992 . Graphs. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 261 pp. Paper . $36.00 . Copyright 1993...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 February 1992
...John F. Scott Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art . By Kubler George . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1991 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii , 276 pp. Cloth . $32.50 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 George...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (4): 601.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Bonham C. Richardson A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State . By Beckles Hilary . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . Photographs. Maps. Charts. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 224 pp. Cloth , $37.50 . Paper , $16.95...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 174–175.
Published: 01 February 1981
... for further investigation. The documents are grouped into eight sections, each introduced by a brief and informative historical summary. The headings are self-explanatory: “The Amerindians”; “Policy of Presents to the Amerindians”; “Officials for the Protection of the Indians”; “Legal Jurisdiction over...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 179–181.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Bruno Feitler Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century . 2 volumes . By Schorsch Jonathan . Leiden : Brill , 2009 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 564 pp. Cloth. Copyright 2012 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 469–498.
Published: 01 August 2002
... and indigenous labor. Everything depended on the Amerindians, who worked as guides, fishermen, hunters, bearers, and farinha makers. The region was sparsely settled and the tiny white population basically consisted of colonial civil servants. 3 Brazilian historiography has generally neglected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 552–554.
Published: 01 August 1996
... research problems. He warns against the ideological content of “first” sources, the lack of an interdisciplinary approach, the inadequate knowledge of Amazonian ethnography, and the negligible Amerindian input. Four papers in the volume reconstruct cultural history. Jalil Sued Badillo proposes real...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 351–352.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and constantly “in movement and flux,” “relational,” and subject to continual negotiation (p. 19). Greer debunks whatever notions remain of a stark divide between European private property and Amerindian communal property in the early modern era, arguing that a wide range of property-holding customs coexisted...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 520–521.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Ian K. Steele The Amerindians in Sokolow’s catalog are curious, friendly, tolerant, and wise; they get all the best lines. Their cultures and languages were rich, their communal values noble, their ecological prescience profound, and their human sacrifices had deep cultural significance. A lone...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 806–808.
Published: 01 November 1986
... Relationships”) the author offers an excellent comparison and contrast of the relationship of affines in the various societies of the lowland Amerindians; the attitude of parents and grandparents to offspring; that interesting relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law; and the initial distrust...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (2): 335–337.
Published: 01 May 2009
... MacCormack, among many others. Claims of rightful possession, or lack thereof, we have been told, ultimately rested on philosophical and religious arguments over the “quality” and accomplishments of Amerindian minds and societies. Adorno, however, goes a step further and demonstrates that the polemic colored...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (4): 720–721.
Published: 01 November 1982
... of Amerindian traditions. This study is marred, unfortunately, by a careless use of history as well as by an attempt to make a contemporary, ideological statement. The reader must wade through historical assumptions that are frequently distorted, wrong, or highly controversial. He uses, for example...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 August 2019
... they were essential to the colonial economy; Amerindians, who were small in number and marginal as a workforce, were not included in experiments. Despite the focus on European physicians, Schiebinger exposes the high level of circulation of medical knowledge in the Caribbean that drew on several...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 1999
... of commodity export in the mid-seventeenth century, Guyanese commercial activity moved from the interior to the coast, and the labor supply shifted from Amerindian to imported African slaves. With this torn, and in the context of expanding world markets, both the standing forests of the Guyanese interior...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 102–103.
Published: 01 February 1997
..., and other pre-Columbian Amerindian societies. The Amerindian berdache was strikingly similar to other passive homosexual men throughout the ages; but unlike the young men seduced and made part of a ruler’s or chief’s retinue in Europe, the berdache was also a transvestite. Furthermore, unlike young men...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (2): 295–296.
Published: 01 May 1993
.... As such, this volume emerges as a major consolidation within the canon of Cardenal’s work, an epic of Amerindian America involving Cardenal’s poetic synthesis of Pound, Neruda, Vallejo, Thomas Merton, and (I would argue) even his political-poetical uncle-nemesis, Pablo Antonio Cuadro. The book reveals itself...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 August 2010
... smallpox epidemic is explained by the long isolation of Amerindians peoples from the Old World pathogens (true) that had “forced the immunological systems of Old World peoples to erect defenses” (false) (p. 9). Although she characterizes some Europeans as “immunological supermen,” they did not, contrary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and should also affect the national manner in which Native American, indigenous, and African American histories are written in North and South America. Navarrete Linares offers a comparative history of the evolution of racial formations and the biopolitics of incorporation and exclusion of Amerindians...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (3): 515–516.
Published: 01 August 2004
... to reconstruct the past. In addition to rejecting sixteenth-century Spanish accounts, the new histories discredited Amerindian sources because they were recorded in nonalphabetic scripts (e.g., quipus and codices) that signified inferior mental abilities. It is difficult to summarize the efforts of Spanish...