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Revisiting Cultivated Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Daily Life in the Guaraní Missions
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 101–124.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Julia Sarreal Both the Crown and Catholic missionaries believed that frontier Indians needed to practice settled agriculture and animal husbandry in order to become civilized. For over a century Jesuit missionaries among the Guaraní Indians of South America tried to Europeanize mission inhabitants...
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Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 784–785.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Shawn William Miller Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico. By E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xviii + 251 pp., preface, appendixes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Book Reviews
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 357–358.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Andrei A. Znamenski The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia. By Piers Vitebsky. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. xv, 480 pp., illustrations, maps. $28.00 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book Reviews
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Centering Animals in Latin American History
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 439–440.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Andrew Sluyter Centering Animals in Latin American History . Edited by Few Martha and Tortorici Zeb . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . xiv + 391 pp., foreword, illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth.) Copyright 2016 by American Society...
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Live birds and animals kept in Tenochtitlan. Florentine Codex, book 8, fol....
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Plate 2. Live birds and animals kept in Tenochtitlan. Florentine Codex, book 8, fol. 30v (detail). MS Mediceo Palatino 219, c. 280v, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. By concession of MiBAC. Further reproduction by any means is forbidden.
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Live birds and animals kept in Tenochtitlan. Florentine Codex, book 8, fol....
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 July 2020
Plate 2. Live birds and animals kept in Tenochtitlan. Florentine Codex, book 8, fol. 30v (detail). MS Mediceo Palatino 219, c. 280v, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. By concession of MiBAC. Further reproduction by any means is forbidden.
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The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., animal caretakers, and inspectors who cataloged their arrival to Spanish ports, interacted with the animals, tried to keep them alive aboard the ship, and determined their ability to withstand further transport to their final destinations in Madrid and other cities in Spain. In the process, animals caged...
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The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the Lords of Death and Destiny, Mictlantecuhtli and Tezcatlipoca. Moreover, the essay shows how the ancient Nahuas considered the intelligibility of animal languages and engaged in active dialogues with the animal representatives of the gods, a form of communication that encompassed both the private...
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Värro Muorra : The Landscape Significance of Sami Sacred Wooden Objects and Sacrificial Altars
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Ingela Bergman; Lars Östlund; Olle Zackrisson; Lars Liedgren Prior to Christianization, initiated by the Swedish Crown and Church during the seventeenth century, the religion of the native Sami people of northern Scandinavia included animistic beliefs centered on animal ceremonialism. The Sami...
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The Living Feather: Tonalli in Nahua Featherwork Production
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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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Collecting a “Lost City” For Science: Huaquero Vision and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions to Machu Picchu, 1911, 1912, and 1914–15
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of collections that include exotic animals, books and antiquities, and skeletal remains. This article examines the practices and collecting technologies of the expedition to suggest that the objects collected as well as the technologies and practices used in collecting helped fashion Machu Picchu into a “lost...
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A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 597–630.
Published: 01 July 2012
... exists in the animating force of camac . The essay shows that Q'enqo and other dual rock art sites materialized aspects of Inka social and spatial divisions. While the Inka state organized the empire into complex and overlapping administrative units, certain rock art sites likely constituted microlevel...
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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
... is little understood, nor has the rebus-based glottography of the system’s phonetic signs been fully studied. This article examines the Koati variant of Andean pictographic script from Bolivia’s Island of the Moon, based in part on a newly found pictographic manuscript preserved on animal hides in Harvard...
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Shamans in the Colonial Frontier Zone: Spirit Mastery in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Ecuador
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Ecuador (the colonial Audiencia of Quito) reveals details of the techniques that these healers were using. Shamans attempted to control spirits through various means, including battles, esoteric chants, and the use of tobacco, alcohol, stones, and the fangs of predatory animals. The records indicate...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 345–354.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of birds and feathers in Mesoamerica. The articles draw on the approaches and methodologies of new philology, 1 ecology and biology, animal-centered histories, and religious and material culture studies to advance understanding of the place of birds and feathers within knowledge systems centered...
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All My Relatives: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Lakota Ontology and Belief
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 379–400.
Published: 01 July 2017
... divided all animals into four general classes: 1st, those that walk upon four legs; 2nd, those that fly; 3rd, those that swim with fins; 4th, those that creep” (Eastman 1971 : 77). The more familiar Lakota classification of living things was explained by the Oglala Thomas Tyon to James R. Walker, also...
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Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 291–331.
Published: 01 April 2005
..., eds. Pp. 121 -41. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1993 Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships . Los Angeles: University of California Press. Brosius, J. Peter 1997 Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge. Human Ecology...
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Calling Moose: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Example of Northern Tutchone Scapulimancy from Fort Selkirk, Yukon
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2025
... in what is now Canada have practiced various forms of animal calling (de Laguna 1990 ; McKennan 1965 ) and scapulimancy for generations (Armitage 1992 ; Fitzhugh 1972 ; Henriksen [1973] 2010 ; Leacock 1981 ; Moore 1957 ; Rogers and Leacock 1981 ; Speck [1935] 1977 ; Tanner 1978 , 1979...
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Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 January 2025
... for Ethnohistory 2025 Marcia Stephenson contextualizes recent fascinations of non-Andean people with llamas and alpacas, unique, high-altitude animals, through a series of case studies spanning 1568 to 1960. Stephenson unveils itineraries camelids would have experienced as they were located, examined...
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The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., it inaugurated the method of using local exempla to teach Christian mysteries. Stories about the hummingbird god and the hummingbird, then, diverged starkly during the colonial period, with the former castigated and the latter widely circulated. This disassociation between the god and the animal has deeply...
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