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Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 335–336.
Published: 01 April 2020
... is estimated at about 25,000 persons, a medium-sized Maya city. Beach, Luzzadder-Beach, and their colleagues argue that the regional carrying capacity was far too low to sustain that scale of an urban population. Consequently, food and other products had to be transported from long distances. But from...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 101–135.
Published: 01 January 2004
... esta las piedras que mando llevar guayna
capac ynga al cuzco
cocha tanbo rreal (Guaman Poma 1936 [1615]: 1086/1096)
The entry of note is for Conchanuma, which Guaman Poma records as
a ‘‘small tambo where are found the stones that the Inca Huayna Capac
ordered carried...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 449–470.
Published: 01 October 2017
... the bullboat’s small size and relatively low carrying capacity. In the 1940s, after serving as a fisheries consultant in British colonies, an English biologist named James Hornell published a study of “primitive watercraft” called Water Transport . Grouping bullboats within a larger class of “coracles, curraghs...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
Published: 01 July 2002
... an inscription that said arms
of the descendants of Gran Tocay Capac Inga Rey Señor natural who
6698 Ethnohistory / 49:3 / sheet 142 of 252 was of these kingdoms of Peru = and on both sides of this the said two
indigenes carried two...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
a private hacienda in Chayala, a valley where two Urinsaya ayllus, Capac
and Sullcavi, possessed lands.89 Thus, in 1760, a nonindigenous dweller
complained about “the concealment carried out by the ruler of Pocoata,
Don Diego Ayra, of twenty Indian tributaries in the lands, haciendas, and
mills...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 51–85.
Published: 01 January 2008
...-
cancha, where he boldly reminded the Ayarmaca lord that he was the son of
Mama Micay and Inca Roca. Furious, Tocay Capac sentenced him to death.
Titu Cusi Hualpa thus invoked curses on the Ayarmaca: should the threats
pronounced by their chief be carried out, they would face certain annihila-
tion...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 549–574.
Published: 01 July 2014
... presented here were collected during extensive
fieldwork carried out during 2007 and 2008 among three Kaiabi groups in
Xingu Park, Kayabi Indigenous Land on the Teles Pires River, and Apiak
Kaiabi Indigenous Land in the Rio dos Peixes (Athayde 2010). We analyze
how Kaiabi leaders emerged, how...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 303–335.
Published: 01 April 2007
..., 81, 85, 91, 95; Toledo 1940 [1571]b: 112; Toledo
1940 [1571]c: 158). The emperor’s body was carried in a litter to Cuzco by
a procession that included noble Inca men and women and a contingent of
Ecuadorian natives—local elites conquered by Huayna Capac who were
to serve the emperor’s...
Journal Article
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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View articletitled, Adaptive Strategies during Times of Conflict and Transformation: Copiapó Valley under the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 831–833.
Published: 01 October 2000
... closely tied to schooling, as each
order established schools aimed either at training young indigenous men
in religious belief and ritual as well as in alphabetic writing or at teaching
new missionaries the languages they would need to carry out their work.
While colonial written texts incorporated...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
... as the visual and efficacious roles that artists assigned to particular feathers in their works. Because tlazohihhuitl had the capacity for life, whereas macehualihhuitl did not, the former required special care to preserve their health and carried particular ethical burdens. As described in Nahuatl texts, work...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 359–414.
Published: 01 April 2004
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sions (Stephen 1936: passim). Their further semiological value lies not only
in their capacity to carry a message (since they are ‘‘inscribed’’ with the
thoughts of the maker), but also to both propitiate and to simultaneously
transact. In Pueblo thought:
Feathers are signs that can be used...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
... khipu-texts, which he attributes to the transition from Inka-era labor tribute to colonial Spanish demands for products and money. In adapting to these demands, the expressive capacity of khipus, per three other transcribed examples, would have been increasingly restricted to attenuated clauses...
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View articletitled, Khipu Transcription Typologies: A Corpus-Based Study of the Textos Andinos
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 391–418.
Published: 01 July 2014
...” and “its ecological base.” Hämäläi-
nen’s statement that “there had simply been too many Comanches (and their
allies) raising too many horses and hunting too many bison on too small a land
base” relies on questionable estimates of the carrying capacity of the southern
plains biotope...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 507–543.
Published: 01 July 2002
... to grow up
and remains small even though he enjoys adult capacities. Both are carried
on the shoulders of powerful figures. The Child Christ is carried on the
shoulders of a gigantic ferryman; the Arawak evil child on the shoulders...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 489–513.
Published: 01 July 2012
... crisscrossed colonial America.¬ But something about the nature
of information—perhaps its ubiquity, intangibleness, or inseparable ties to
other issues such as war, trade, and diplomacy—has led scholars to make
broad statements (or assumptions) about the communication capacities and
strategies...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 435–444.
Published: 01 April 2004
... in southern
Belize (Mopan Maya)—presents research carried out in a lowland setting.
In addition, particularly Early but also Fischer and Hendrickson seek to
understand processes at the national level. Gossen’s collection of indige-
nous narratives is ‘‘a native history of a modern Maya community...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 January 2015
... is essential to the con-
cept of barbarism. It is indeed difficult to define what a barbarian is, for his
identity instead consists in the capacities, institutions, and possessions that
he is deemed to lack, according to another person who has them. These
things are, above all, reason, political life...
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