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  • “Their debts follow them into the afterlife”: German Settlers, Ethnographic Knowledge, and the Forging of Coffee Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala

  • Julie Gibbings
  • Journal:
    Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / April 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 March 2020, pp. 389-420

  • German coffee planters in nineteenth-century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala were also ethnographers, archaeologists, and geographers who published their works in Germany, the United States, and Guatemala. Their published works, as well as coffee plantation records, government correspondence, judicial records and other archival materials reveal how German coffee planters-cum-ethnographers drew upon ethnographic knowledge and representations to forge a reliable labor force. Like ethnographers in Britain's colonies, German settlers in Alta Verapaz understood the potential symmetry between ethnography and the governance of indigenous peoples. Their ethnographic knowledges also push us to reconsider distinctions drawn between German cosmopolitan ethnographic traditions and British functionalist ones and demonstrate how ethnographic knowledge and cultural difference could be deployed to forge new kinds of racial capitalism. In Guatemala, the intimate relationship between the rise of capitalism and ethnography shaped the anti-communism of mid-twentieth-century anthropology in the region.

  • “Intertribal” Development Strategies in the Global Cold War: Native American Models and Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia

  • Jacob Tropp
  • Journal:
    Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / April 2020
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    30 March 2020, pp. 421-452

  • This article bridges the traditionally segregated fields of Native American history and the history of American foreign relations by investigating a series of activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s that interconnected Native American development and American counterinsurgency agendas in the unstable political landscapes of Southeast Asia. A small coterie of American bureaucrats, with careers spanning foreign assistance and Native American development work, saw great potential in selectively showcasing Indian economic “success stories” to serve “hilltribe” development and counterinsurgency programs in Laos and Thailand sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Central Intelligence Agency. One result was a series of “intertribal” development tours arranged for Laotian and Thai representatives in multiple Native American communities in Arizona and New Mexico. Moreover, sharing a sense that Native Americans could offer unique advantages as direct development agents among other “tribes” overseas, the tours’ organizers garnered support from a diverse range of actors—CIA and USAID officials, Laotian and Thai military officers, and Indian political and business leaders—for launching a “tribe-to-tribe” foreign assistance program. Viewed together, these transnational schemes and discussions reveal how the flexible and multivalent meanings of key development concepts at the time—such as Indian achievement, tribal initiative, and “intertribal” understanding—both facilitated and constrained official designs to employ Native American models to support political and military agendas in the “shadow” theaters of the escalating Vietnam conflict.

  • CSS volume 62 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / April 2020
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    30 March 2020, pp. b1-b2
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  • ISH volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 65 / Issue 1 / April 2020
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    25 March 2020, pp. b1-b2
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  • Bibliography

  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 65 / Issue 1 / April 2020
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    25 March 2020, pp. 163-189
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  • ISH volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    International Review of Social History / Volume 65 / Issue 1 / April 2020
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    25 March 2020, pp. f1-f4
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  • Conclusion

  • Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    Cities of Strangers
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    09 March 2020
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    19 March 2020, pp 91-98

  • Summary

    The Wiles Lectures that underpin this book were inspired by the sight of hundreds of thousands of refugees walking across Europe, which led me to create a lecture on townswomen. Every project of research is a journey of unexpected discoveries, and so this has been. We began with an appreciation of the urban landscape of Europe after 1000, with its areas of extensive and long-standing urbanisation in the south and the wave of new foundations north of the Alps. We have witnessed communities of strangers coming together in tentative sworn associations to create communes and appoint officials. Cities won freedoms from local rulers, and with these came responsibilities; so they developed rules and procedures to ensure the safety and flourishing of their communities. And since growing commerce and manufacture required both skilled and less-skilled workers, and attracted those who sought the opportunities of urban life, rules about entry and settlement soon had to be formulated, stated, and enforced. Those who lived in towns and cities reflected a great deal on the arrival of newcomers and the settlement of strangers. The reception of new residents was an act of trust, carefully considered, and always conditional. Town councils and magistrates recognised that the movement of people into their communities was an utter necessity, but also a risk.

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