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Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540

Robert C. Schwaller

Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 748–749.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1333787

Published: 01 October 2011

...Robert C. Schwaller Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 . By Don Patricia Lopes . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . xiii + 263 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index . $34.95...

View articletitled, Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540

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The Baller and the Court: Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Battle with Ololiuhqui and His Courtship of the Mexican Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Edward Anthony Polanco

Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 195–225.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10999165

Published: 01 April 2024

... also involved in ololiuhqui networks and seldom wished to comply with his investigations. As a result, well into the 1630s the priest courted the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Mexico with the goal of obtaining jurisdiction over all colonial racial and ethnic categories in New Spain. Ruiz de Alarcón...

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Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

Leo J. Garofalo

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 369–370.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-075

Published: 01 April 2007

...Leo J. Garofalo Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. By Irene Silverblatt. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 299 pp., about the series, acknowledgments, prologue, afterword, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $22.95 paper.) American...

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Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovisión

Rafael C. Alvarado, Aldo Ismael Barriente, Allison Margaret Bigelow

Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 493–518.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9157219

Published: 01 October 2021

... languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from being destroyed by colonial officials or Inquisitional authorities, the original K’iche’ authors of the Popol Wuj had to embed their ways of knowing in a language and narrative...

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Colonial Conspiracies

Irene Silverblatt

Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 259–280.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-259

Published: 01 April 2006

...Irene Silverblatt Using records from the Lima office of the Spanish Inquisition, this article explores the cultural politics of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. Spain's imperial enterprise was rooted in the construction of new social beings at the core of modernity: (1) the racialized triad—Indian...

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The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

Robert C. Schwaller

Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 713–738.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642725

Published: 01 October 2012

... often acculturated in both Hispanic and indigenous cultures. As people in the middle of colonial society, they were uniquely positioned to navigate within and between the two dominant cultural spheres of colonial Mexico. Using Inquisition documents, criminal records, and petitions to the crown...

View articletitled, The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain

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Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico

Martin Nesvig

Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 739–764.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642734

Published: 01 October 2012

...Martin Nesvig In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including...

View articletitled, Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico

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Accessing the Divine: Indigenous Medical Specialists, Catholic Priests, and Nonorthodox Methods of Healing in Colonial Mexico

Anderson Hagler

Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 27–45.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10887989

Published: 01 January 2024

...Anderson Hagler Abstract This study examines forty-six colonial records spanning over two centuries (ca. 1581–1802), the majority of which consist of Mexican Inquisition and criminal trials. The article illuminates how Indigenous medical specialists, alternatively labeled ritual specialists...

View articletitled, Accessing the Divine: Indigenous Medical Specialists, Catholic Priests, and Nonorthodox Methods of Healing in Colonial Mexico

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Marital Practices of the Nahuas and Imposed Sociocultural Change in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Katarzyna Granicka

Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 81–100.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9404173

Published: 01 January 2022

... : 109–10). Therefore we may once again look at the households of don Diego or don Toribio from the censuses—with their slaves and many children—and think of their unions as cases of concubinage that were perhaps never investigated by the Inquisition and remained hidden from the official records...

View articletitled, Marital Practices of the Nahuas and Imposed Sociocultural Change in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

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Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala

Martha Few

Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 673–687.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-4-673

Published: 01 October 2005

... disorderly behavior is based primarily on Inquisition records, historical sources that provide a window into a range of conﬂicts found in daily life in this multicultural and racialized colonial setting.6 The Inquisition, as an institution, has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years...

View articletitled, Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala

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Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World

Gretchen Starr-LeBeau

Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 362–363.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9706073

Published: 01 July 2022

... between the episcopal trials in Oaxaca (under the authority of the bishop and ultimately the Pope) and the Spanish Inquisition trials in Valencia (a state office under the authority of the inquisitor general and ultimately the king). Hamann rightly notes that the Spanish Inquisition was not established...

View articletitled, Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World

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From Sodomy to Superstition: The Active Pathic and Bodily Transgressions in New Spain

Laura A. Lewis

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-041

Published: 01 January 2007

..., and the high rate of execution for people identified as sodomites in Spain attests to extraordinary state and church concern with male-male sexual relations.5 That rate intensified during the late fif- teenth century, when the Spanish Inquisition was established to prosecute Jews and other heterodox...

View articletitled, From Sodomy to Superstition: The Active Pathic and Bodily Transgressions in New Spain

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The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867

Sonja Luehrmann

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 355–356.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-067

Published: 01 April 2007

... insights into the lives of both Maya and Spaniard in pre- and postconquest Yucatán. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2006-074 Book Reviews 369 Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. By Irene Silverblatt. (Durham, NC...

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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

Andrei A. Znamenski

Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 357–358.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-068

Published: 01 April 2007

... in pre- and postconquest Yucatán. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2006-074 Book Reviews 369 Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. By Irene Silverblatt. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. xv + 299 pp...

View articletitled, The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

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