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Yokol Cab: Mayan Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua

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Amy George-Hirons
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 525–552.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890221
Published: 01 July 2015
... how Mayan scribes and illustrators understood European astrology and the importance that the Maya placed on both visual representations and Spanish textuality. These excerpts served a didactic purpose of teaching European conceptions of astrology and astronomy to a Mayan audience via a deliberate...
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Figure 2. Native Andean astrologer and poet. From Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, 883 [897]. Royal Danish Library, GKS 2232 quarto.

Native Andean astrologer and poet. From Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El pr...

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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 2. Native Andean astrologer and poet. From Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno , 883 [897]. Royal Danish Library, GKS 2232 quarto. More
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The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain

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Rebecca Dufendach
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 559–560.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9157363
Published: 01 October 2021
... to their beliefs. In the third chapter, Diel explores connections between human and celestial bodies, presented by the authors in a distinctly European form of medical astrology. The last two chapters present the codex’s historical records represented in the forms of the lineage of the Tenochca royal house...
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The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867

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Sonja Luehrmann
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 355–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-067
Published: 01 April 2007
... encyclopedic of the books of Chilam Balam. About one-third of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those...
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

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Andrei A. Znamenski
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 357–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-068
Published: 01 April 2007
... of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, the Chilam Balam...
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Waccamaw Legacy: Contemporary Indians Fight for Survival

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Malinda Maynor Lowery
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 358–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-069
Published: 01 April 2007
... of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, the Chilam Balam...
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“Hang Onto These Words”: Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence

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Christopher F. Roth
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 360–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-070
Published: 01 April 2007
... encyclopedic of the books of Chilam Balam. About one-third of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those...
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Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History

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Meri L. Clark
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 362–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-071
Published: 01 April 2007
... encyclopedic of the books of Chilam Balam. About one-third of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those...
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Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819

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Robert Schwaller
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 364–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-072
Published: 01 April 2007
... of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, the Chilam Balam...
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Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line

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David Webster
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 365–367.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-073
Published: 01 April 2007
... of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, the Chilam Balam...
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An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua

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Paul Sullivan
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 367–368.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-074
Published: 01 April 2007
... encyclopedic of the books of Chilam Balam. About one-third of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those...
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Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

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Leo J. Garofalo
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 369–370.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-075
Published: 01 April 2007
... encyclopedic of the books of Chilam Balam. About one-third of it concerns diseases and folk reme- dies. The other two-thirds explore astronomy, astrology, Maya and Euro- pean calendrics, and Catholic prayers and practices. The Kaua also con- tains a series of katun prophecies that partly overlaps those...
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Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond

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José Carlos de la Puente
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7517868
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 2. Native Andean astrologer and poet. From Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno , 883 [897]. Royal Danish Library, GKS 2232 quarto. ...
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Scribal Interaction and the Transmission of Traditional Knowledge: A Postclassic Maya Perspective

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Gabrielle Vail
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 445–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890182
Published: 01 July 2015
... Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua . Ethnohistory 62 ( 3 ): 525 – 52 . Graff Donald H. 1997 Dating a Section of the Madrid Codex: Astronomical and Iconographic Evidence . In Papers on the Madrid Codex . Bricker Victoria R. Vail...
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Pipil Writing: An Archaeology of Prototypes and a Political Economy of Literacy

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Kathryn E. Sampeck
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890195
Published: 01 July 2015
... . George-Hirons Amy 2015 Yokol Cab: Mayan Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua . Ethnohistory 62 ( 3 ): 625 – 52 . Gerarde John 1597 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes . London : Norton . Hanks William 2010...
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Alphabetic Literacy and Colonial Process in Yucatán

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William F. Hanks
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 651–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890286
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Victoria R. Bricker and Munro Edmonson, eds. Pp. 44–63. Austin: University of Texas Press. George-­Hirons, Amy 2015 Yokol Cab: Mayan Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua. Ethnohistory 62(3): 525–52. Hanks, William F...
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The Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692

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David Cahill
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-3-611
Published: 01 July 2002
... legendary residue. He appears to have been a kind of enlight- Tseng 2002.8.28 08:47 622 David Cahill ened despot, ‘‘very wise and a great astrologer his legendary achieve...
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Conceiving of the End of the World: Christian Doctrine and Nahua Perspectives in the Sermonary of Juan Bautista Viseo

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Stephanie Schmidt
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8702396
Published: 01 January 2021
... omens. Quite differently, this passage draws from Central Mexican ceremony and astrology as a means to make sense of Christian omens (Bautista 1606: 205). Doing so, it presents a metaphor steeped in Nahua cosmology as a sign that remains valid to shed light on sacred truth. What is most striking...
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Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan

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Kevin Terraciano
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890208
Published: 01 July 2015
... Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua,” Ethnohistory 62, no. 3 (2015): 525–52. 53 Lacadena, “Regional Scribal Traditions,” 14. ...
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Literacy and Healing: Semiotic Ideologies and the Entextualization of Colonial Maya Medical Incantations

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Timothy W. Knowlton
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 573–595.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890247
Published: 01 July 2015
.... In contrast with its use in Maya Christian texts or works of astrologi- cal medicine, uayasba in the Ritual of the Bacabs do not often appear to reference two-­dimensional painted illustrations (figuras). Rather, uayasba are communicated more often through different modes: the accoutrements of ritual...
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