ETHNOHISTORY AND IROQUOIA

The American Society for Ethnohistory published its first issues of Ethnohistory in 1954, and its editor, the anthropologist Erminie W. Voegelin, defined it as "the study of identities, location, contacts, movements, numbers, and cultural activities of primitive peoples from the earliest written records concerning them, onward in point of time. Others (including the society's website) emphasize a method that goes "beyond the standard use of books and manuscripts" to "maps, music, paintings, photography, folklore, oral tradition, ecology, site exploration, archaeological materials, museum collections, enduring customs, language, and place names . . . in ways that make for a more in-depth analysis than the average historian is capable of doing based solely on written documents produced by and for one group.