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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 206–213.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Karen Dakin By Horacio Carochi. James Lockhart, trans. and ed. Nahuatl Studies No. 7.(Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxii + 516 pp. $65.00 cloth.) By James Lockhart. ucla Latin American Studies, vol. 88.(Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press, 2001. x + 251 pp. $45.00 cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Kevin Terraciano The Codex Sierra Texupan is a sixty-two-page libro de cuentas , or book of community accounts, that combines Nahuatl-language writing with a parallel pictorial component. Indigenous writers and artists in the Mixteca Alta region of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, compiled...
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 3. Egerton Codex, Lord’s Prayer in Testerian hieroglyphics with Nahuatl translation. Courtesy British Museum.
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 407–410.
Published: 01 April 2003
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Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature.
By Louise M. Burkhart. (Austin: University of Texas Press for the Insti-
tute of Mesoamerican Studies, Albany, viii + pp., preface,
introduction...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Pete Sigal This article provides a method for interpreting the place of sexuality in texts that defy analysis. The author uses one source, the Florentine Codex , a large and complex bilingual Nahuatl and Spanish document, to decipher some elements about cross-dressing individuals, homosexualities...
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Glimpsing Native American Historiography: The Cellular Principle in Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Annals
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 625–650.
Published: 01 October 2009
... that there is direct evidence that Nahuatl historical annals originally were not, as has been supposed, purely linear texts recounting the history of a single altepetl , but rather, constructions based on an accumulation of cellular contributions from multiple subentities. Historical truth was understood to require...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 January 2019
... ( 1986 ) published a pioneering article on Aztec inheritance patterns, using a variety of original Nahuatl- and Spanish-language records for the study of native property transmission in Mexico City before and after the conquest. Two years later, Robert Haskett ( 1988 ) examined the Nahua elite...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 691–711.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Mark Z. Christensen Nahuatl played an essential role in the evangelization of Central Mexico. Although the crown and its appointed officials vacillated between the use of Nahuatl and Spanish in teaching the Christian doctrine, the majority of ecclesiastics supported the use of Nahuatl, particularly...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 361–391.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Miriam Melton-Villanueva; Caterina Pizzigoni Newly collected testaments from two settlements in the jurisdiction of Metepec in the Toluca Valley reveal that, although scholars believed the great tradition of mundane records in Nahuatl to have lapsed by 1800, it continued on a large scale during...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 349–351.
Published: 01 April 2008
... for her was able to cite a Spanish law
that banned Spaniards from entering indigenous communities with loaded
firearms. Whether justice was ultimately served in the case is unknown,
but this humble Nahuatl petition—now ably translated into English for
us in Mesoamerican Voices...
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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 (2024) 71 (4): 509–536.
Published: 01 October 2024
... that the text was written by a speaker of Nahuatl, (3) confirm Pedro de Montezuma’s identification of the writer as Juan de Tlaxcala, and (4) offer some concluding reflections on the significance of his use of Latin in this context. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by American Society...
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in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 1. The logogram tonatiw in Nahuatl writing. (a) Name tag of Juan Tonatiuh. Detail from Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 579v. (b) Name tag of Alonso Itztonatiuh. The tonatiw sun disk has alternating yellow rays with black obsidian blades, corresponding to the logogram itz . Detail from
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Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 3. Feather tribute paid by Xoconochco, with Nahuatl glosses. Matrícula de tributos , p. 25 (detail). 1522–30 CE. Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. Public Domain.
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 675–690.
Published: 01 October 2012
... on their language ability. This article traces the development of a bilingual secular clergy in order to evaluate whether royal officials responded to the widespread use of Nahuatl at the time of contact or whether those same officials encouraged the spread of Nahuatl through their policies. Copyright 2012...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 449–477.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Explorations in
Early American Culture 5 (2001): 237–99.
Nahuatl for the Twenty-First Century
Frances Karttunen, University of Texas, Austin (retired)
Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Edited by William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill, and Pamela Munro. (Berke...
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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 (2013) 60 (4): 759–762.
Published: 01 October 2013
...David Tavárez Copyright 2013 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2013 A Banned Sixteenth-Century Biblical Text
in Nahuatl: The Proverbs of Solomon
David Tavárez, Vassar College
Between 1536 and the late sixteenth century, the Colegio de Santa Cruz,
established...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 April 2010
... interest, would find benefit in reading this volume.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-076
Book Reviews 349
Nahuatl Theater. Volume 3. Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican
Translation. Edited by Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, and Elizabeth R...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 145–172.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Berenice Alcántara; Pedro A. Muñoz Abstract Bernardino de Sahagún is well known for having headed a major research project about the Nahuas of Central Mexico in the sixteenth century. However, many years before this project began, Sahagún wrote several sets of sermons in the Nahuatl language...
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