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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 693–695.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... This essay contributes to this central problem of knot making and reading traditions by enlisting the aid of an unlikely source: the memoirs of a mid-nineteenth-century gentleman who was given a striking account of how khipu masters in Cuzco’s countryside recorded specific events of a twelve-month calendar...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 697–705.
Published: 01 October 2003
.... These pictorial calendars occasionally resurface and provide new insights into the histories of Native Americans. A new pictorial calendar of the Mandan Indians has recently reappeared. It and the circumstances of its reappearance are described, and suggestions toward a possible interpretation are offered...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 73–85.
Published: 01 January 2010
... appropriation of the Latin alphabet and of European literacy practices by local indigenous intellectuals. This development led to the inception of a novel textual genre, the biyee, an alphabetic, pluralistic, multilayered rendering of the Zapotec 260-day divinatory calendar. I also contend that, as they moved...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 167–190.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Kevin Terraciano Abstract The author presented a draft of this essay as a presidential address at the 2012 meeting of the society in Springfield, Missouri. The theme of the meeting was “the apocalypse,” referring to a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicted a cataclysmic event to occur...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 567–593.
Published: 01 July 2006
... to speak not of
days but of ‘‘nights’’ or ‘‘sleeps
Many people marked the path of the sun over the course of a year,
tracking its appearance on the horizon. People like the Hopi did so with the
help of specialists in order to anticipate the ritual cycle or planting calendar
of the pueblo...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
... the course of the
365-day solar calendar. The veintena section contains a wealth of pictorial
information about the annual ceremonies. Indeed, because of its extensive
imagery, early date, and indigenous authorship, scholars have often posi-
tioned the Codex Borbonicus as the authoritative source...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 553–572.
Published: 01 July 2015
... colonial lowland carvings and documents.
With the arrival of the Spanish, highland Mayas rapidly learned the Latin-
ate alphabetic script. Maya literacy survived colonial and Republican sup-
pression in the daykeepers’ conservation of the sacred calendar round of
260 days, the tzolk’in/cholq’ij...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 721–728.
Published: 01 October 2016
... (line 10) deal with Colonial Maya politics and religion. Folios VI (line 11) through VIII explain the Maya calendar. Folios IX through XI narrate the conversion of the Maya to Christianity. Folio XII contains a list of Maya gods. The back shows a series of animals, humans, and supernatural beings...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in Nahuatl, leaving little room for error or doubt. The
measurement of a pound of silk appears as a neatly twisted bundle of silk
rope, tied at the top. A bundle and a banner conveyed twenty pounds.34
References to the Mixtec Calendar
Although the alphabetic text is written in Nahuatl, the Codex...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 673–674.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 675–676.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, refer-
ences, index. $27.95 paper.)
Brian Stross, The University of Texas at Austin...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 676–678.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 678–679.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 680–681.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, refer-
ences, index. $27.95 paper.)
Brian Stross, The University of Texas at Austin...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 681–683.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 683–685.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 685–686.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 686–688.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the Lower Creek Indians, and will doubtless become a
very useful reference in the field.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-029
Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materializa-
tion of Time. By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface...
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