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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of especially indigenous or non-Western peoples from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using written documents, oral narrative, material culture, and ethnographic data.
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Examples
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This decision, which netted me an "A" in Joyce and a "D" in anthropology, caused me to become more generally allergic to all courses related to anthropology, such as ethnohistory and Native American Studies.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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This decision, which netted me an "A" in Joyce and a "D" in anthropology, caused me to become more generally allergic to all courses related to anthropology, such as ethnohistory and Native American Studies.
Sunday Night Follies: In Which The Radical Answers Four Questions Tenured Radical 2009
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This decision, which netted me an "A" in Joyce and a "D" in anthropology, caused me to become more generally allergic to all courses related to anthropology, such as ethnohistory and Native American Studies.
Tenured Radical 2009
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His idea of ethnohistory was a step forward in two ways at once.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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His idea of ethnohistory was a step forward in two ways at once.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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This is the place to say that you offer something special: that although a microbiologist, you have taught sections of Freshman Comp for the last three years and you would love the opportunity to teach young science majors at a small liberal arts college how to write; that although a historian, you have a master's degree in anthropology, and would love to teach a course in ethnohistory, or oral history methodologies.
Archive 2008-08-01 Tenured Radical 2008
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For a fascinating analysis of one woman's refusal to participate in a feminist ethnohistory research project, as a kind of negative appropriation of the project's goals, see Kamala Visweswaran, "Refusing the Subject," in Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 60-72.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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His research interests include South American archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology, and Inca record-keeping and mathematics.
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Of note, Aguirre Beltrán's research was not well-received in Mexico, says Gabriel Moedano Navarro, director of ethnohistory at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.
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Of note, Aguirre Beltrán's research was not well-received in Mexico, says Gabriel Moedano Navarro, director of ethnohistory at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.
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