Ethnohistorians
Strange Bedfellows, Kindred Spirits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2739833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer S H Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/482117 |
| OpenAlex | W2320698538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
For many of us, ethnohistory has personal meanings associated with our individual odysseys into this liminal domain. Perhaps a look at these meanings in a particular instance would cast some light into the rather obscure niche occupied by our field, methodology, approach, or whatever it is we do when we do ethnohistory. I'd like to subject this captive audience to a small dose of introspection about one individual's ethnohistorical peregrinations. I shan't match the wit of my distinguished predecessor, Jim Axtell (I990), although I do quite often find humor in ethnohistorians. And in my title I try to avoid a previous president's pitfall; Raymond Fogelson (I989: I33) has warned us about excesses in entitlement. Thus, while I have thought up a neologism, auto-ethnohistory, for these remarks (the term is an analogue to auto-ethnography, another word used in some circles these days),' it appears in my first paragraph, not in the title. The term has no deep meaning, and I don't mind if its introduction is a complete nonevent, to Ray Fogelson or anyone else. It is simply a useful handle for some reflections about ethnohistory and ethnohistorians, myself included. When our former president, Bill Simmons, called me up from Berkeley in August I988 to ask if I would be a candidate for president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, I was both surprised and honored. It was impressive that he tracked me to an Ontario island which had only recently been baptized into the world of modern communications. But even more, it was a new thought to contemplate being president of something; not being a very political animal, I had never done that before. On further consideration, the idea grew on me. I decided that in fact, if the chance came, there was nothing I would rather be president of
Epistemology · Ethnohistory · Liminality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Navajo · Neologism · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2015 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |