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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 692–693.
Published: 01 October 2018
...William F. Connell Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive . By Camilla Townsend . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . ix+318 pp., acknowledgments, glossary, introduction, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index . $35.00 cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 748–749.
Published: 01 October 2019
...William F. Connell Overall, Truitt has contributed a major work in the study of indigenous Mexico Tenochtitlan. His focus on the Church, built on the work of other scholars of Nahua evangelization, helps to explain native spirituality under colonialism. In so doing, Truitt also helps to explain...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Katarzyna Granicka Abstract There are many sources that allowed scholars to study the nature and functions of polygamous marriages of the Nahua nobility. Very few studies, however, focus on the marital relations of the Nahua commoners. This article presents exploratory research into various kinds...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 321–352.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the anti-Semitic message that fundamentally characterizes this legend to the context of New Spain, justifying wars of imperial conquest as divine justice for perceived offenses against God. An anonymous Nahua translator-playwright also accommodated a version of this legend for performance to Nahua...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
...David Tavárez Nahuatl Theater. Volume 4, Nahua Christianity in Performance . Edited by Sell Barry D. Burkhart Louise M. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2009 . xvi + 405 pp., preface, acknowledgments, references, index . $ 49.95 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 743–746.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., bibliography, index . $65.00 cloth.) Indigenous Miracles: Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico . By Osowski Edward W. . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . ix + 260 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, map, introduction, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $50.00...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 October 2001
... answerable question of what it all meant, in the sixteenth century
and today.
Die Mayordomías in Tequila: Das Religiöse Ämtersystem Heutiger Nahua
in Mexiko. By Brigitte Hülsewiede. Institut für Völkerkunde der Albert...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 340–342.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Books.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-078
The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua
Poetics. By Jongsoo Lee. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2008. xii + 282 pp., introduction, notes, glossary, index. $34.95 cloth.)
Susan Toby Evans, Pennsylvania State...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 415–444.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jonathan Truitt Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church. By examining Nahua women's role in colonial Christianity—their religiosity (as admired by European and indigenous chroniclers), responsibilities...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 349–400.
Published: 01 April 2003
... these competing “titles,”ostensibly written in the 1520s, to Spanish authorities in the 1690s. The titles present each community's account of the Spanish Conquest of Oaxaca and subsequent colonial events. We consider how the documents shed light on Mixtec and Nahua ethnic identity and historical memory...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., glossary, notes, bibliography, index, illustra-
tions, maps. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)
Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico. By
Stephanie Wood. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii +
212 pp., preface, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, map. $34.95
cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 786–787.
Published: 01 October 2006
...David Tavárez Nahuatl Theater. Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico. Edited and translated by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart. Foreword by Miguel Léon-Portilla. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xxviii + 337 pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, appendixes...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Edward Anthony Polanco Abstract Since the sixteenth century, Central Mexican tiçiyotl (Nahua healing knowledge) has been portrayed as a male-dominated system akin to Western medicine. This has made Nahua women invisible in broader discussions of tiçiyotl. Though the historiography acknowledges...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Edward W. Osowski Scholars have yet to understand well the role of indigenous people in Mexican independence. In her question-provoking new study of several Metepec altepetl in the Toluca Valley, Miriam Melton-Villanueva starts with Eric Van Young’s view that the Nahua kept themselves...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Puebla, Mexico: Descent, Inheritance, and the Nahua Tradition.” American Anthropologist 102 , no. 3 : 485 – 502 . Diccionario de autoridades 2001 3 vols . Madrid : Editorial Gredos . Doesburg Sebastián van 2001a Códices cuicatecos: Porfirio Díaz y Fernández Leal . Mexico...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Justyna Olko This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Stephanie Schmidt Abstract This article considers questions of authorship in Juan Bautista Viseo’s “Second Sermon for Advent” about “frightful, and terrible signs” of Judgment Day. Although Bautista acknowledges important contributions by Nahua scholars in the production of his Nahuatl-language...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 103–123.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... In this article, the author argues that Chimalpahin’s modifications depict a Nahua version of the conquest in which the emphasis on the native’s active participation reflects its effect in the outcome of the war even though such contributions are often unseen in the most representative narratives of the event...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Lisa Sousa Abstract Nahua rulers, nobles, and warriors of the late postclassic and early colonial periods used feathers and elaborate feather costumes in a variety of political and sacred rituals. They acquired these prestige items through gift exchange, trade, conquest, and tribute. This article...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Allison Caplan Abstract Previous studies suggest that late postclassic and early colonial Nahua viewers understood specific artistic creations to contain tonalli , a solar-derived animating force. This article advances understanding of the animacy of Nahua featherworks by examining attention...
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