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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 145–172.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... This article analyzes eleven of these sermons, composed during the 1540s by this zealous Franciscan, possibly with the help of Nahua students and graduates of the Colegio de Tlatelolco. These sermons develop one shared allegory, “the House of the Soul,” by comparing the building elements of an ideal dwelling...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2020
... official name is Armed Freedom and she inspires all humanity as a “symbol of unity and democracy.” Or does she? Might she, in fact, be someone else, an allegory of something else, a symbol of an ethnohistorical phenomenon that evokes with an undying urgency Barber and Berdan’s ethical imperatives...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 525–552.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the iconographic elements in the accompanying allegori-
cal illustrations will help address the issue of visual literacy, as the illustra-
tions are subjected to subtle but essential adaptations in the Kaua. In the
original European illustrations, a wheeled vehicle pulls an anthropomor-
phized representation...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of Dyson and Martin have reproduced an allegory that is intrinsic to
the Elmolo people’s oral tradition and collective memory, compelling the
Elmolo to recreate the South Island as a new space where collective memory
resides and informs their historical consciousness.
Finally, in his long-term...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 639–668.
Published: 01 October 2007
... Sainte Marie, incorporated named bands from the west into their
village community. The allegory given to Warren matched Dablon’s expla-
nation of Sauteur identity. Western bands, the Noquet (or Bear totem), the
Marameg (also called the Awasse or Catfish totem), the Outchibou (Loon
totem...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (3): 533–561.
Published: 01 July 2005
... Warburton and Richard M. Begay
of symbolism, metaphor, and allegory is a viable mode of knowing the past
and that, although traditional history may be superficially affected by the
context in which it is told and by the audience present, it nonetheless retains
essential elements. We contend...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 655–669.
Published: 01 October 2014
... it is
almost cheesy, but the literally dirty underside of the allegory is the real clearing
of land and planting of nonnative crops, which began the environmental vio-
lence that both compelled and marked the alienation of Maori land for the next
two centuries and beyond.
9 To make things...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Akkeren 1999; Breton 2007; Burelle 2011; D. Tedlock 2003). The
history of the families who were responsible for the transmission of the oral
and then written text is also rigorously established, cementing the text’srole
as a likely sociopolitical allegory for historical Maya warriors and kings
(see...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 509–546.
Published: 01 July 2007
... Allegory. In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . James Clifford and George E. Marcus, eds. Pp. 98 -121.Berkeley: University of California Press. Cmiel, Kenneth 1990 Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America . New York: Morrow...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... By the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth, the iconography of Mexican blackness had been reduced to mythologized or stereotyped figures. Africans were pictured as historical Catholic saints, as allegories of the African continent, or (negatively) stereotyped as racial “types” in casta paintings. Despite...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 621–642.
Published: 01 October 2020
... topic is not a mere figure of speech or an allegory to an abstract ethical principle. It pertains to a relevant and specific concern about a generalized form of behavior among indigenous caciques denounced in colonial society (Bernal 2008 : 146). The counterpart of Great Chacha and the cacique...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 229–251.
Published: 01 April 2014
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2005), 25–53; and Ricardo Padrón, “Allegory and Empire,” in Mapping Latin
America: A Cartographic Reader, ed. Jordana Dym and Karl Offen (Chicago,
2011), 84–87.
2 Alejandro de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (Chapel
Hill, NC, 2008), 6. Port cities...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 195–219.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of the contemporary Elmolo’s identity draw significant
affective power from the South Island. The deaths of Dyson and Martin
have reproduced an allegory of a lake tragedy that is intrinsic to the El-
molo’s oral tradition and collective memory, compelling the Elmolo to re-
create the South Island as a new space...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 447–472.
Published: 01 July 2003
..., where crafts are still taught today.
Nick Hockings came up with the allegory of the man in the
desert carrying a pack at Wa-swa-gon-ing, a twenty-acre ‘‘re-created tra-
ditional Ojibwe village’’ on the reservation...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting the Christian god with Mexica deities, and
employing flowers, birds, and jewels as metaphors for the wondrous, Alva
fashioned indigenous versions of Spanish comical...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 328–331.
Published: 01 April 2010
... or others revised Alva’s work.
Finally, Burkhart’s inspired survey of a hybrid genre she calls “Nahuatl
Baroque” provides illuminating examples of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting the Christian god with Mexica deities, and
employing flowers, birds, and jewels as metaphors for the wondrous, Alva
fashioned indigenous versions of Spanish comical...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 342–345.
Published: 01 April 2010
... or others revised Alva’s work.
Finally, Burkhart’s inspired survey of a hybrid genre she calls “Nahuatl
Baroque” provides illuminating examples of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 April 2010
... or others revised Alva’s work.
Finally, Burkhart’s inspired survey of a hybrid genre she calls “Nahuatl
Baroque” provides illuminating examples of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 337–339.
Published: 01 April 2010
... of Alva’s translation choices.
Besides downplaying European allegory, inserting Nahua terms indexing
class and ethnicity, contrasting the Christian god with Mexica deities, and
employing flowers, birds, and jewels as metaphors for the wondrous, Alva
fashioned indigenous versions of Spanish comical...
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