Should we view the objects as art, ethnographic artifacts, historical records, talismans or religious or spiritual accoutrements?
The bulk of Catlin's collection of works, which is mainly of ethnographic and historical interest, was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1879.
Chastened by the furious response, he set out to investigate Turkey's ethnographic and historical entanglements; the result, as much memoir as history, is "a rare, remarkable feat," Joseph O'Neill wrote in the Book Review.
In a partially similar view, Velleman (2013) has claimed, on the basis of ethnographic and historical data, that different communities construct available action types differently.
This paper explores these secondary effects – what one might call the "shadow" of Dauvergne's "shadow ecologies" – through ethnographic and historical research on the Chile Japan salmon trade.
The validation of the hypotheses expected from ethnographic and historical data that quantitative soils-based evidence allows the definition of variations in manuring strategies and provides a more secure basis from which to interpret manuring management strategies in archaeological landscapes.
Brown (New World) archaeoastronomers in contrast have abundant ethnographic and historical evidence and have been described as 'cavalier' on matters of measurement and statistical analysis.
If no ethnographic nor historical data are found which can support this assertion then acceptance of the idea relies upon whether or not there are enough petroglyph sites in North America that such a correlation could occur by chance.
