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Can Ethnohistory Help the Ethnomusiciologist? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
A problem in ethnomusicology that defies solution is that of influence--was the music we are studying influenced by outsiders? If the music changed because of replacement, acculturation, or attrition, how did it change, and how much did it change?
Heth, Charlotte
core  

Le chamanisme comme moyen de résistance anticoloniale dans la tradition orale des Napo Runa d’Amazonie équatorienne

open access: yesRevue d'Études Autochtones, 2023
Du xviiie au xxe siècle, les Napo Runa, groupe autochtone de l’Amazonie équatorienne, ont été les victimes de nombreuses oppressions coloniales. Les acteurs coloniaux et les ethnohistoriens qui étudièrent les archives ont identifié la fuite et le ...
Arthur Cognet
doaj   +1 more source

Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
wiley   +1 more source

«Como caçica y señora desta tierra mando...». Insignias, funciones y poderes de las soberanas del norte andino (siglos XV-XVI)

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2008
Between 1530 and 1560, ethnic female authorities appear in the historical documents. The authority and positions of power of these elite women become apparent through the identification and analysis of emblematic objects tied to the possession and ...
Chantal Caillavet
doaj   +1 more source

The value of transformation: agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 899-916, September 2025.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

Las batallas de Kuruyuki. Variaciones sobre una derrota chiriguana

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2005
The battle of Kuruyuki, in 1892, was the last time in which part of the Chiriguano of the Bolivian Chaco fought against the Whites. Several opinions have stated that this battle meant the end of this ethnic group.
Isabelle Combès
doaj   +1 more source

On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethnos, Histories, and Cultures of Ethnohistory: A view from the US Academy

open access: yesMemoria Americana, 2012
Critical commentary on Ana María Lorandi’s essay titled “Ethnohistory, historical anthropology or simply history?” published in this volume, written by Thomas Abercrombie.  
Thomas Abercrombie
doaj  

Koloniální minulost etnické skupiny Nungon a její dopad na prostorové chování lidí

open access: yesHistorická sociologie, 2017
Objective of the paper is a study of effects of selected historical events on spatial behaviour of members of Nungon community (Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea).
Martin Soukup, Jan D. Bláha
doaj   +1 more source

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