PANEL PRESENTATIONS
Panels of 3-4 students will make a 30-45 min presentation on the relationship of the ethnohistory (or ethno-ethnohistory) to a major analytical topic or subfield concern of interest to them.  Several topics are pre-identified in the starter bibliography below.  Students on a panel should read the representative literature on that topic and report to the class on the major theoretical concerns, methodological problems, and substantive contributions for that topic.  The presenters should circulate to the rest of the class a bibliography on the topic (need not be fully annotated), and should additionally turn in to the instructor a jointly-written brief summary of their findings.

Starter Bibliography for Panel Topics:

NOTE: This is a listing of just a few of the possible readings on pre-selected topics, making use of chapters in the assigned texts as well as other articles and chapters. It is just to get you started. It is not representative of any topic, nor could one assert that the best or most influential readings are included in any list. Students who choose alternative panel topics are on their own, but may want to look over this list since some of these references may also serve their purposes.

 
1. Archaeology and Ethnohistory

D Nicholson, H. B.
1955 Native Historical Traditions of Nuclear America and the Problem of Their Archeological Correlation. American Anthropologist 57:594-613.

D Spores, Ronald M.
1980 New World Ethnohistory and Archaeology, 1970-1980. Annual Review of Anthropology 9:575-603.

Charlton, Thomas H.
1981 Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnology: Interpretive Interfaces. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 4:129-176. New York: Academic Press.

Brown, Kenneth L. [reply to Carmack and Weeks 1981 which you already read]
1983 Some Comments on Ethnohistory and Archeology: Have We Attained (Are We Even Approaching) a Truly Conjunctive Approach? Reviews in Anthropology 10(2):53-71.

Rogers, Daniel J., and Samuel M. Wilson, eds.
1993 Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas. New York: Plenum.

Galloway, Patricia
1991 The Archaeology of Ethnohistorical Narrative. In Columbian Consequences, vol. 3, The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective, ed. by David Hurst Thomas, pp. 454-470. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

 
1a. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in North America:

D Mason, Ronald
2000 Archaeology and Native North American Oral Traditions. American Antiquity 65:239-266.

D Echo-Hawk, R.
2000 Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time. American Antiquity 65:267-290.

D Whiteley, Peter M.
2002 Archaeology and Oral Tradition: The Scientific Importance of Dialogue. American Antiquity 67:405-415.

 
2. Oral Historical Traditions (more generally)\

Beidelman, Thomas O.
1970 Myth, Legend and Oral History. Anthropos 65:74-97

Beidelman, Thomas O., and R. Finnegan
1972 Approaches to the Study of African Oral Literature. Africa 42:140-147.

D Day, Gordon M.
1972 Oral Tradition as Complement. Ethnohistory 19:99-108.

Rosaldo, Renato
1980  Doing Oral History.  Social Analysis 4:89-99.

Willis, Roy G.
1980 The Literalist Fallacy and the Problem of Oral Tradition. Social Analysis 4:28-37.

Vansina, Jan
1985 Oral Tradition as History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

D Cohen, D. W.
1989 The Undefining of Oral Tradition. Ethnohistory 36:9-18.

Tonkin, Elizabeth
1992 Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 
3. Historical Narratives and Ethnogenesis

Sider, Gerald
1994 Identity as History: Ethnohistory, Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in the Southeastern United States. Identities 1(1):109-122.

Hill, Jonathan D., ed.
1996 History, Power, Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas 1492-1992. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

T Silverblatt, Irene
1988 Political Memories and Colonizing Symbols: Santiago and the Mountain Gods of Colonial Peru. Chap. 8 of Rethinking History and Myth.

Whitehead, Neil L.
1993 Ethnic Transformation and Historical Discontinuity in Native Amazonia and Guayana, 1500-1900. L'Homme 126-128, 33 (2-4):285-305.

 
4. Historical Tradition and Production in SocioPolitical Movements

Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, eds.
1983?  The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

T Rasnake, Roger
1988 Images of Resistance to Colonial Domination. Chap. 6 in Rethinking History and Myth.

Rappaport, Joanne
1998 The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

D Salomon, Frank
2002 Unethnic Ethnohistory: On Peruvian Peasant Historiography and Ideas of Autochthony.Ethnohistory 49:475-506.