ethnohistoryn.
/ˌɛθnəʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˈhɪst(ə)ri/ Social Sciences (originally U.S.).
1. The history of a people and its culture, or of a place in respect of its people and culture.Originally and still often with reference to North American Indian peoples.
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1916 F. W. Hodge in A. F. Bandelier Delight Makers (ed. 2) p. viii More than one serious student of the ethno-history of our South-west has frankly declared that [etc.].
1939 Science 26 May 472/2 There will also be discussions of the ethnology and ethno-history of the Indian tribes indigenous to the Great Lakes region.
1955 Amer. Anthropologist 57 601 Jiménez Moreno's chart..conveniently sums up his most important correlations between the archeology and the ethnohistory.
a1961 F. M. Keesing (1962) (title) The ethnohistory of northern Luzon.
2009 P. R. Picha in T. Majewski & D. Gaimster Internat. Handbk. Hist. Archaeology 276/1 The ethnohistory of northeastern Great Plains peoples received initial treatment in the..contributions of Joseph Nicollet.
2. A branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, esp. indigenous, minority, or non-Western ones.Originally and still often with reference to North American Indian peoples.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history
ancient history1566
church story1581
archaeology1607
church history1609
local history1615
mythistory1731
human story1753
intellectual history1755
oral history1827
Assyriology1828
world history1833
hierologya1848
meta-history1854
Hibernologya1869
prehistory1871
proto-history1876
prehistorics1879
earth history1880
Sumerology1897
historiometry1909
black history1920
herstory1932
ethnohistory1938
meta-history1946
Annales1952
Hittitology1952
revisionism1965
longue durée1968
Warburgianism1977
1938 Amer. Antiq. 4 62 Vernon Kinietz, Research Associate in Ethno-history University of Michigan.
1952 Amer. Anthropologist 54 331 Ethnohistory is blessed with an abundance of source materials.
1966 New Statesman 13 May 710/2 (advt.) The study..of internal change within the non-Western societies (i.e. ethnohistory).
2006 J. Brooks in S. Occam Coll. Writings 31 One of the limits of ethnohistory is that it tends to privilege sites of white-Indian contact as the determining contexts for American Indian history.
3. An analysis or narrative of the history of a people or culture; a work of ethnohistory (sense 2).
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1956 Amer. Anthropologist 58 185 Our fluid definition of ‘tribe’ was deliberately devised to show that we were not doing an exhaustive..ethnohistory.
1967 P. Lawrence in Behavioral Sci. Res. New Guinea ii. 74 It is possible to build up an ethnohistory until about 1950. There has been uniform development: cash crops, cooperative societies, [etc.].
2009 E. Harris Nationalism i. ii. 50 The intelligentsia reappropriated ethno-histories of ‘the people’ and ‘edited’ them into usable ethno-histories that could inspire the national struggle in the face of hostile empires.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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