Topics: Development of ethnohistory, definitions, emphasis on historical method; native historical traditions and the difficulty of distinguishing "history" from "myth"
 

A. The Discipline of Ethnohistory and the Relationship to Anthropology

Cline, Howard F.
1972 Introduction: Reflections on Ethnohistory. In Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 12, Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part 1, ed. by Howard F. Cline, pp. 3-16. Austin: University of Texas Press.

D Carmack, Robert M.
1972 Ethnohistory: A Review of Its Development, Definition, Methods, and Aims. Annual Review of Anthropology 1:227-246.

D Krech,III, Shepard
1991 The State of Ethnohistory. Annual Review of Anthropology 20:345-375.

Barber, Russell J., and Frances F. Berdan
1998 The Scope of Ethnohistory. Chapter 1 (pp. 5-32) of The Emperor's Mirror: Understanding Culture Through Primary Sources. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
 

B. Contrasting Approaches to Native Historical Traditions (Myth vs History)

D Carmack, Robert M., and John M. Weeks

1981 The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan: A Conjunctive Approach. American Antiquity 46:323-341.

D Graulich, Michel
1981 The Metaphor of the Day in Ancient Mexican Myth and Ritual. Current Anthropology 22:45-60.

T Leach, Edmund
1990 Aryan Invasions over Four Millennia. Chap. 8 in Culture Through Time