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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 751–779.
Published: 01 October 2015
... patterns: carrying capacity, which suggests that increasing village populations and environmental limits drove new settlements, and political ecology, which suggests that exogenous economic forces determined the timing and location of new settlements. The analysis indicates that villages rarely encountered...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 121–141.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and the sociopolitical life of the Turkana nomads. This is likely to reduce the Ngturkana's capacity to survive in their homeland and/or introduce and hasten their embrace of other survival strategies, similar to the situation exacerbated by the British raids in the early twentieth century. American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 171–204.
Published: 01 April 2001
... either identify as “royal followers” or,alternatively, reject symbols of monarchy, Karembola attitudes to monarchy are shown to be profoundly ambivalent. Focusing on the politics of landscape and ceremonial exchange, the analysis highlights the capacity of ancestor-focused rituals to enable...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
Published: 01 July 2002
... within, that nobility. The procession was held under the aegis of Our Lady of Loreto, and the article seeks to explain the significance of this representation of the Virgin for colonial Inca nobles and postconquest Inca culture. It was formed by the “descendants of Gran Tocay Capac Inga,” a composite...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 175–182.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., and consumption) reveal and enact social relationships and inequalities. The author reminds readers that to fully explore the rich implications of the graphic, scholars must expand their investigations beyond writing's capacity to represent spoken language and also investigate the iconic and indexical dimensions...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in ways that play on its meaninglessness and thus hinder the capacity of narrative to situate contemporary life in terms of a history of progress. This kind of denial of a modernist historical consciousness is another aspect of humiliation, and it suggests that anthropologists and ethnohistorians rethink...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... exposed the fragility of attempts to subordinate these peoples and seize their lands as the colonial period came to an end. Altering the politics of empire, native capacities played an unrecognized role in the history of this decisive era. 26 Resende, “Gentios brasílicos,” 159–87; Carrara, Uma...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 303–335.
Published: 01 April 2007
...R. Alan Covey; Christina M. Elson Yucay was a royal estate in the Inca heartland built by provincial laborers for Huayna Capac, the penultimate ruler. Permanent retainers staffed the estate, maintaining a palace and leisure facilities for the emperor and providing material support for his family...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 765–767.
Published: 01 October 2003
... and Hispanicized compilers
and interpreters.
A central focus of the book is the meaning of the word capac, with
which Julien begins and ends. It is used often to designate the leading digni-
tary of a group...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 101–135.
Published: 01 January 2004
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was a major public demonstration of state control over labor.
Dicen que este gran Huaina Cápac hizo hacer en esta gran ciudad del
Cusco dos casas de cantería de piedra muy ricamente labrada, y hechas
las hizo deshacer, piedra por piedra, y mandó que las tornasen a hacer
en Quito; y...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Iowa University
Inka Human Sacrifice, despite its broad title, is focused on the capac hucha,
a particular kind of Inka human sacrifice, and its use in Qulla Suyu, the
southernmost sector of the four quarters of the empire. Besom conducts
an in-depth study of two capac huchas, one at Cerro...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 840–842.
Published: 01 October 2000
... at that variable, as well as at the climate itself.
Fagan is at least aware of the issue, however, and gives us the basic
data. This leaves one serious problem: Fagan’s frequent resort to the con-
cept of ‘‘carrying capacity This ecological notion refers to the number of
individuals of a species...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 51–85.
Published: 01 January 2008
... been previously promised by her family to Tocay
Capac, the Ayarmaca sinchi (warlord). Following the wedding, the rejected
chief decided to declare war on the Huayllacan, and the ensuing conflict
lasted years. Eventually, as their condition for ending the war, the Ayar-
maca demanded...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 761–765.
Published: 01 October 2003
... is a way to find pathways to native
history through the manipulations of Spanish and Hispanicized compilers
and interpreters.
A central focus of the book is the meaning of the word capac, with
which...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 655–687.
Published: 01 October 2001
... Valley: The Colonization Policy of Huayna Capac. In The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History . George A. Collier, Renato I. Rosaldo, and John D. Wirth, eds. Pp. 199 -235. New York: Academic. Wallace, Dwight T. 1991 Chincha Roads: Economics and Symbolism. In Ancient Road...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2008
... 71
Carigua 46 40 86
Pari 86 29 115
Subtotal 352 137 489
Urinsaya
Capac 84 42 126
Sullcavi 45 25 70
Hilata 45 39 84...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 July 2014
... + 309 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, introduction, epi-
logue, appendixes, notes, glossary, references, index. $65.00 cloth.)
Sarahh Scher, Upper Iowa University
Inka Human Sacrifice, despite its broad title, is focused on the capac hucha,
a particular kind of Inka human sacrifice, and its use...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
... by the Brazilian society (D. Ribeiro
1970). Small reservations were created to accommodate the indigenous
population in the process of assimilation. Under this policy, the creation
of Xingu Indigenous Park may be seen as an exception, and the capacity of
resistance of indigenous peoples and their allies...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2020
... 2003 ), the spread of new diseases (Cook 2012), and the destruction of sacred places and objects known in the Andes as huacas (MacCormack 1991 ). Faced with these new challenges, the resistance and potential for rebellion of local societies depended largely on their capacity to transform...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 153–162.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
veiled, is for recognition of rightful (and sole) Inca succession (Manco, like
Atawallpa and Wascar, was a son of Wayna Cápac), and with it grants of
tributaries and other sources of rents.
It is uncertain if King Philip II read Titu Cusi’s letter, but the fact that
it reached the Escorial...
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