Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Concepts
Introduction
1. The Scope of Ethnohistory
2. The Reality-Mediation Model
Part 2: Methods
Introduction
3. Paleography
Case Study: Some Examples of English Paleography in India
4. Calendrics
Case Study: Placing Two East African Visitors in Sequence
5. Linguistic Analysis
Case Study: Martin Frobisher's Accounts
6. Interpretation of Names
Case Study: Place-Names of Tlaxcala, Mexico
Case Study: Personal Names in the Early Jewish Community of New York
7. Source Analysis
Case Study in External Analysis: The Horn Papers
Case Study In Internal Analysis: Hans Staden and Tupinamba Cannibalism
8. Quantitative Analysis
Case Study: Conversion amoung the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Iroquois
9. Visual Interpretation
Case Study: Huron and Timucua Farmers
10. Map Interpretation
Case Study: The Ramusio Plan of Hochelaga
11. Tapping Complementary Sources of Information
Case Study in Complementary Evidence: The Custer Battle
Case Study in Analogy: Native Mexican Weaving Traditions
Part 3: Strategies
Introduction
12. Formulating Research Topics and Research Designs
13. Working in Archives and Elsewere
Epilogue
Reference Material
Appendix A. Bibliography of Paleography in Selected Languages
Appendix B. Outline for an Ethical Code in Ethnohistory
References Cited
Index
About the Authors