

What is Ethnohistory?


What is Ethnohistory? This week’s articles addressed a number of interrelated questions relating to ethnohistory, including: what is it? how does it relate to anthropology and history? what are the principle methodological concerns? why is ethnohistory important for contemporary communities? and, what are ethnohistory’s goals? This paper attempts to summarize these discussions. Despite Axtell’s (1979)