Search Results for Pipil

... territories. The results of the analysis suggest greater Lenca- and Pipil- and smaller Ch’orti’-speaking populations than once thought, and emphasize the multilinguistic and frontier nature of societies in western Honduras. This study also highlights the viability of onomastic approaches in reconstructing...

... documents spanning the years 1549–1666 from Central America. Most of these documents date from the turn of the sixteenth century and are in the Central American Nahuatl dialect of Pipil. Some exhibit incorrect emulations of the Classical Nahuatl of central Mexico, brought to the region by the Spaniards...

...Kathryn E. Sampeck This article will explore how Pipil writing compares to better-known Central Mexican pictorial manuscripts. The sole evidence for preconquest writing in this region was presented in the seventeenth century by Don Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán through his drawings...

... for the construction of pastoral Q'eqchi'. In contrast, the evangelization of the Pipil demanded substantial modifications of Mexican Nahuatl doctrinal language. Mutual intelligibility was not the only requisite to persuade and convert the natives. The local organization of speech genres and the indexical associations...

... by central Mexicans. Central Mexicans (Mexicanos) are also protagonists in Laura E. Matthew and Sergio F. Romero’s essay “Nahuatl and Pipil in Colonial Guatemala: A Central American Counterpoint,” but this time in their role as military allies to Spanish conquerors. Guatemala’s multiethnic...

... Centuries . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Matthew Laura Romero Sergio 2012 Nahuatl and Pipil in Colonial Guatemala: A Central American Counterpoint . Ethnohistory 59 ( 4 ): 765 – 83 . Mignolo Walter 1996 Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial...

... of the Yucatán penin- sula get attention in most of the essays, but geographically, two Nahuatl zones—those of Central Mexico and of Pipil speakers—effectively book- end the other language areas covered here: those of Mixtec, Yucatec Maya, K’iche’, Kaqchikel, and Q’eqchi’. Whatever the specific interest...

.... Pipil Writing: An Archaeology of Prototypes and a Political Economy of Literacy 469 Schmidt, Mario. Entangled Economies: New Netherland’s Dual Cur- rency System and Its Relation to Iroquois Monetary Practice 195 Sierra Silva, Pablo Miguel. From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro...

..., Laura E., and Michel R. Oudijk, eds. 2007 Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Matthew, Laura E., and Sergio F. Romero 2012 Nahuatl and Pipil in Colonial Guatemala: A Central American Counter...

... sense in Nahuatl and Mixtec are comparable to the shared traditions that appear in Pipil writing from the Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan 519 Figure 19. A silkworm emerges from the Mixtec A-O­ year glyph. From the Codex Sierra Texupan, 61. Biblioteca...

.... 2015 Pipil Writing: An Archaeology of Prototypes and a Political Economy of Literacy . Ethnohistory 62 ( 3 ): 469 – 95 . Schwartzkopf Stacey 2008 Maya Power and State Culture: Community, Indigenous Politics, and State Formation in Northern Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 1800–1871 . PhD...

..., the conquistador leans to one side, face forlorn, helmet in hand, an outstretched palm turned down. Alvarado’s valedictory stance is far from triumphant. The Pipil arrow that pierced his leg in a confrontation in Acajutla left him crippled for the rest of his life. “One of my legs,” he took pains to tell afterward...

... .” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 18 , no. 1 : 175 – 203 . Sampeck Kathryn E. 2015 “ Pipil Writing: An Archaeology of Prototypes and a Political Economy of Literacy .” Ethnohistory 62 , no. 3 : 469 – 95 . Schwartz Barry 2007 “ Collective Memory .” In Blackwell...

... highland Guatemala suggest that childbirth took place in the steam bath rather than in the house (a practice also followed by the Aztec for difficult births). Husbands were present to assist the midwife; among the Pipil, both would let blood to petition the deities when the birth was not progressing...

... in Ramírez 1847 : 77). But even he later wrote of the adelantado ’s treatment of the non-Maya Pipiles that “[Alvarado] fell upon them one morning by surprise and did them great damage and made many captures, and it would have been better had he not done so, for, as in justice must be admitted it was an ill...