https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Ethnohistory. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 46, no. 4 (1999) - vol. 51 (2004) Latest Articles: Ethnohistory TWO Project MUSE® Ethnohistory 1527-5477 0014-1801 Latest articles in Ethnohistory. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174380 <p></p> For over one hundred years, the Northwest Coast and Plateau have been perhaps the most productive of Native American culture areas in terms of data collected and research questions addressed. Given the huge amount of material collected by field ethnographers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the relative lateness and hence well-recorded exploration and settlement periods, there is ample documentation to generate continuing investigations, both substantive and theoretical, of the region for some time to come. A minor genre in the Northwest is the Native American biography. These two recently published books dealing with southern Northwest Coast (Oregon and Washington) Native Americans ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography, and: Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Coquelle Thompson, Athabaskan Witness: A Cultural Biography, and: Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 19152 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174381 <p></p> Dave D. Davis, &#x22;A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians,&#x22; Ethnohistory 48 (2001): 473. Hereafter, citations to Davis&#39;s article appear in parentheses in the text. Davis Dave D. A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory 48 2001 473 Hereafter, citations to Davis&#39;s article appear in parentheses in the text.&#x22;Petition. Exhibits,&#x22; submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Acknowledgment and Research (hereafter BAR), by the United Houma Nation, Inc., Golden Meadow, Louisiana, 1985; &#x22;Rebuttal to the BIA&#39;s Proposed Findings against Acknowledgment,&#x22; submitted by the United ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Another View on "Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians" 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Another View on "Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians" 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 36876 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174382 <p></p> Richard Handler&#39;s introduction to volume 9 of the Wisconsin series in History of Anthropology (HOA) reviews the history of the series under the editorship of its founder, George W. Stocking Jr., suggesting that the subdiscipline has attained sufficient centrality to anthropology to survive this routinization and transition. The series, which certainly demonstrates that Stocking is no longer the only historian of anthropology, will continue his editorial strategy of producing periodic thematic volumes rather than a journal open to miscellaneous papers and authors. At the cost of a potentially exclusionary gatekeeping function, each volume has served as a resource for scholarship and for teaching of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 7403 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174383 <p></p> When I submitted &#x22;A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians&#x22; to Ethnohistory, my only concern was that its publication might provoke an ad hominem reaction from supporters of the United Houma Nation, Inc.&#39;s (UHN&#39;s) bid for federal recognition. However, although mindful of that possibility, it never occurred to me that any respondents would center their attack on allegations of the type raised by Campisi and Starns. Rather than focusing on the truly interesting issues surrounding the ethnic history of the people represented by the UHN, Campisi and Starns have undertaken what can only be characterized as an attempt at professional character assassination that is both poisonous and defamatory. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Response to Campisi and Starna 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Response to Campisi and Starna 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 14234 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174384 <p></p> Born out of the October 1995 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, Archaeology of Formative Ecuador seeks to expand the existing literature on this portion of Ecuadorian prehistory. To accomplish this, eleven essays exploring a diverse array of subjects, including human skeletal analysis, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, and iconography, are included within the symposium proceedings. These essays are supplemented with four appendices detailing aspects of Formative Period chronology in different geographical regions of the country. Given the varied contributions and limited space for review, only selected essays will be discussed here. Of particular note is the contribution by Peter Stahl on the state of the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Archaeology of Formative Ecuador: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995 (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Archaeology of Formative Ecuador: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995 (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 6426 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174385 <p></p> There are two phenomenological tropes useful for understanding human experience: that of movement, or coursing, and that of dialogue, or discoursing. Standing Ground is an ethnographic and ethnohistorical account of an anthropologist&#39;s witness to one hundred and forty years of Yurok spirituality, endurance, and survival in the face of genocide, previous anthropological misinterpretation, and debilitating governmental land management. Embarking on the problematic anthropological discourse of human choice and agency as individuals and in groups, Buckley critiques and avoids his predecessors&#39; inabilities to understand Yurok individual spirituality in relation to collective action. In place of previous literature ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Standing Ground: Yurok Spirituality, 1850-1990 (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Standing Ground: Yurok Spirituality, 1850-1990 (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 6126 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174388 <p></p> The Dari&#xE9;n region, comprising the eastern third of the Panamanian Isthmus, was for several centuries both a colonial backwater and a locus of geopolitical rivalry and conflict between Spain and northern European powers&#x2014;conflict in which the indigenous group known as Tule or Kuna played a prominent part. Much has been written on the initial Spanish discovery and conquest of the isthmus, on seventeenth-century English buccaneers, and on the short-lived Scots Colony of 1698&#x2013;1700, but serious professional histories of the region are scarce.2 Ignacio Gallup-Diaz&#39;s incisive, theoretically sophisticated, and absorbing study of the politics of the &#x22;tribal zone&#x22; of the colonial Dari&#xE9; n advances Isthmian ethnohistory by ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darien, 1640-1750 (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darien, 1640-1750 (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 9169 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174389 <p></p> This is a readable biography of Arthur Caswell Parker (1881&#x2013;1955), a prominent ethnologist, curator, archaeologist, and journalist of mixed Iroquois, Seneca, and Anglican descent. The book is organized chronologically and thematically, focusing on key aspects of Parker&#39;s career and intellectual development. Scholars of contemporary American Indian society and activism will appreciate Porter&#39;s compilation of extensive articles written by or about Parker. Raised as a Christian, Parker attended a seminary and nearly became a minister. However, his manitou was his guiding spirit, and ultimately he went on to educate Americans in the spiritual teachings of Handsome Lake (76). Because he lacked an advanced degree in ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 7027 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174390 <p></p> See Joyce 2000 for a fuller discussion of many points.See Gutmann 1997 for a review of research in this area.See, for example, Hill 1996 and Abercrombie 1998.Weed and Schor 1997 provide an overview of and discuss points of intersection between queer theory and feminism. A survey of critical legal studies can be found in Bauman 1996, and Vila 2000 is a recent ethnography drawing on contemporary theorizing about border constructions of ethnicity and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Gender in Pre-Hispanic America (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Gender in Pre-Hispanic America (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 9030 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174391 <p></p> Marco Polo, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, ed. Henry Yule and Henri Cordier, vol. 2 (London, 1903), 253. Polo Marco The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East ed. YuleHenry and CordierHenri vol. 2London1903253 See Charles Ralph Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650. Second corrected ed. (Berkeley, CA, 1967), 10-14; Charles Ralph Boxer, Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770 (Hong Kong, 1968), 2. See BoxerCharles RalphThe Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650Second corrected ed.Berkeley, CA19671014BoxerCharles ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548-1853 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Skin as a Metaphor: Early European Racial Views on Japan, 1548-1853 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 94055 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174393 <p></p> Johann Georg Kohl, Kitchi-Gami: Life among the Lake Superior Ojibway, trans. Lascelles Wraxall (St. Paul, MN, 1985, first published 1860), 355. Kohl Johann Georg Kitchi-Gami: Life among the Lake Superior Ojibway trans. WraxallLascellesSt. Paul, MN1985first published1860355 I use the term Algonquian to refer to the speakers of one or more of the languages of the Algonquian family. This is an awkward term in part because speakers of Algonquian languages share neither a common culture nor a common environment, and they cover a tremendous geographic range. The peoples on which I primarily focus are the various groups of Crees and Ojibwes. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 97200 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174394 <p></p> The appearance of Wiktor Stoczkowski&#39;s book in English is a welcome treat for students of the history of paleoanthropology. The French original appeared in 1994, and since this time, the book has become fairly well known for its thesis that there are really only so many ways to tell a human origins story. The book is often compared to Misia Landau&#39;s Narratives of Human Evolution (1991), which also makes the point that human origins stories follow certain narrative conventions. In Landau&#39;s case, however, hominization scenarios are said to follow the story lines of the European folktale, in which a hero (a hominid of some kind) comes out of the woods, faces a challenge of some sort, is tested, and finally triumphs ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 10745 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174395 <p></p> In 1830, Lewis Cass, the governor of Michigan Territory and an acknowledged expert on Indians, contributed an essay to the North American Review that urged the removal of the Indians east of the Mississippi. Cass believed that &#x22;a barbarous people, depending for subsistence upon the scanty and precarious supplies furnished by the chase, cannot live in contact with a civilized community.&#x22; He had no doubt that North American Indians&#39; &#x22;appearance and character . . . designate them as a distinct variety of the human race.&#x22; He regarded the &#x22;civilization&#x22; program, instituted by George Washington&#39;s administration and aimed at assimilating Indians while appropriating their lands, as a &#x22;total failure&#x22; because of &#x22;some ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 123820 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174400 <p></p> The most comprehensive treatments of the Beaver Wars are found in George T. Hunt, The Wars of the Iroquois (Madison, WI, 1940); Bruce G. Trigger, The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (Montreal, 1976); Daniel K. Richter, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Chapel Hill, NC, 1992); Jos&#xE9; Ant&#xF3;nio Brand&#xE3;o, &#x22;Your Fyre Shall Burn No More&#x22;: Iroquois Policy toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 (Lincoln, NE, 1997). The most comprehensive treatments of the Beaver Wars are found in HuntGeorge T.The Wars of the IroquoisMadison, WI1940TriggerBruce G.The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall From the Mohawk--Mahican War to the Beaver Wars: Questioning the Pattern 2004-10-28 text/html en-US From the Mohawk--Mahican War to the Beaver Wars: Questioning the Pattern 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 127601 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174401 <p></p> Nancy Farris, Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton, NJ, 1984), 68-72. Farris Nancy Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival Princeton, NJ 1984 68 72 Victoria Bricker, The Indian Christ, Indian King,The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual (Austin, TX, 1981), 76. Bricker Victoria The Indian Christ, Indian King,The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual Austin, TX 1981 76 Farris, Maya Society under Colonial Rule, 69. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Ambivalence and Conquest: Recent Studies of Maya Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution in the Colonial Period 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Ambivalence and Conquest: Recent Studies of Maya Resistance, Revolt, and Revolution in the Colonial Period 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 6534 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174402 <p></p> This book by Patricia Rubertone will interest historians and literary scholars of the colonial period in North America, as well as archaeologists and anthropologists. Drawing heavily on archaeology and anthropology but also on literary theory and oral traditions, Rubertone suggests new ways of approaching history and using it to rethink the effects of colonialism on the Indians. Moreover, she provides elements for the elaboration of a counterhistorical discourse intended to help decolonize the Indian past. In fact, the author adopts the Amerindian perspective so as to capture the complex history of Amerindian actions and reactions to European colonial domination: a history full of difficulties, troubles, and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians (review) 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Grave Undertakings: An Archaeology of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians (review) 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 21723 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405 <p></p> Number 1 (winter 2004), pp. 1-222Number 2 (spring 2004), pp. 223-457Number 3 (summer 2004), pp. 459-676Number 4 (fall 2004), pp. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/174405">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/61/image/coversmall Index to Volume 51 2004-10-28 text/html en-US Index to Volume 51 2004-10-28 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 60421 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2004-10-28