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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 140–142.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Mark A. Nicholas The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church . By Maroukis Thomas Constantine . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . Civilization of the American Indian Series . 281 pp., notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 cloth.) Copyright...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 415–444.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jonathan Truitt Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church. By examining Nahua women's role in colonial Christianity—their religiosity (as admired by European and indigenous chroniclers), responsibilities...
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in Tangled Strands of Silk: Globalizing the Local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 1. Document dated to 1558 describing the “donation” of Achiutla’s church and associated vestments to friars of the Dominican order. Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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in Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 6. The Five Commandments of the Church in the Libreta de la Luna. The text is read from right to left. From Ibarra Grasso 1953 : 303.
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in Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 7. The Five Commandments of the Church, Pickering 1. This is read boustrophedon from the lower left. Image by Manuel Medrano, from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 21-50-30/F294.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. Catholic church, town hall, and basketball court. Central square, Santiago Yagallo, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca. Photograph by the author.
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 2. In addition to the Catholic church pictured here, there are four different Protestant congregations in the community of Santa María Yaviche, Sierra Norte. Photograph by the author.
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in The Feast of the Nazarene of Caguach: Religious Identity, Geography, and Community in the Archipelago of Chiloé
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 4. Astrid Windus, St. Isabel in the Church (2018). Photograph. Courtesy of Astrid Windus.
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in The Feast of the Nazarene of Caguach: Religious Identity, Geography, and Community in the Archipelago of Chiloé
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 7. Astrid Windus, Church of Caguach (2018). Photograph. Courtesy of Astrid Windus.
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 781–801.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Nicholas May The emergence of evangelical revivalist organizations in the late nineteenth century, such as the Church of England's Church Army—and the more widely known Salvation Army—is typically understood by historians to be intertwined with the development of the working class...
View articletitled, Marching to the Beat of a Newer Drum: Cultural Continuity and Revival in Nisg̲a'a <span class="search-highlight">Church</span> Armies, 1894–1970
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in Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post–Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 3. The town of San José: modern plaza with ruins of Jesuit church and new chapel in background. Photograph by author.
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in Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post–Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 5. The crypt and ossuary pit below the Jesuit church at San Javier. Photograph by author.
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 101–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Jajuan Johnson Context The oral history interview with Mr. Elmer Beard, a longtime political activist, politician, and educator, is part of a series of interviews for a study on Black church burnings, arsons, and vandalism from 2008 to 2016. Mr. Beard gives historical context to recent Black church...
View articletitled, An Interview with Elmer Beard: Remembrances of Black Activism, Communal Solidarity, and the Burning of Roanoke Baptist <span class="search-highlight">Church</span> in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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for article titled, An Interview with Elmer Beard: Remembrances of Black Activism, Communal Solidarity, and the Burning of Roanoke Baptist <span class="search-highlight">Church</span> in Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 246–248.
Published: 01 January 2006
... additional insights into history and anthropology.
Maroukis divides his book into chapters that chronologically follow
the life of the Necklace family and the history of Peyotism and the Native
American Church among the Yankton. The two stories seem to go hand
in hand. Maroukis’s description...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 743–746.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Mark Z. Christensen Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico . By Wake Eleanor . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . ix + 338 pp., illustrations, map, acknowledgments, abbreviations, introduction, color plates, appendixes, notes, glossary...
View articletitled, Framing the Sacred: The Indian <span class="search-highlight">Churches</span> of Early Colonial Mexico / Indigenous Miracles: Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico
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for article titled, Framing the Sacred: The Indian <span class="search-highlight">Churches</span> of Early Colonial Mexico / Indigenous Miracles: Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 438–440.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Thomas Whigham The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru . By Bailey Gauvin Alexander . ( South Bend, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2010 . xix + 642 pp., list of figures, introduction, illustrations, documentary appendixes, notes...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 July 2012
... followed the lead of eighteenth-century ministers who proclaimed that previously unevangelized Indians in southeastern New England suddenly joined churches in droves during the revivals of the 1740s. In this view, the “Indian Awakening” was unprecedented, sudden, and complete. By providing a broader...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 675–690.
Published: 01 October 2012
...John F. Schwaller This article examines the practice of ordaining young men because of their personal language ability, a process referred to as an ordination a título de lengua . As a result of reforms codified by the Catholic Church in the Council of Trent, prospective priests were required...
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 January 2025
...—and the timing of such changes. Copyright 2025 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2025 sodalities Maya Ixil church Guatemala The recent finding of wall paintings of the colonial period in the Ixil Maya town of Chajul, in the highlands of Guatemala, provides a unique opportunity to deepen...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 July 2018
... perpetrated her first miracle in 1586. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, natives had begun to attend the church erected to honor the miraculous image in overwhelming numbers for Corpus Christi and Holy Week. Wills and reports by ecclesiastical administrators suggest that indigenous commoners...
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