... to larger themes and groups of symbols in order to understand the literary context in which the nature of peoples and rulers were grounded. Federico Navarrete examines Aztec monuments and books to understand their relationship with oral traditions and ritualized performances, uniting deeds...

... of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Wimmer Alexis . [ 2012 ] Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique . sites.estvideo.net/malinal . Nahua Cartography in Historical Context: Searching for Sources...

...John R. Wunder American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Native American History, Ethnohistory, and Context John R. Wunder, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and University of Helsinki The study of the history of indigenous peoples today requires an ethnohis- torical approach...

... affiliation created a new ethnic identity within the changing contexts of colonial rule. Within these administrative contexts, the particular conditions pertaining to Saraguro, including the history of settlement in the region and the economic conditions during Spanish rule, motivated people to actively...

... of Transculturalization. Current Anthropology 4 : 519 -31. Strong, Pauline Turner 1998 Review of Reading beyond Words: Contexts for Native History. Ethno-history 45 : 802 -4. Book Reviews Reading beyond Words: Contexts for Native History. Edited by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert. 2nd ed...

...Jacki Thompson Rand Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts . By Kovach Margaret . ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 201 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, introduction, epilogue, illustrations, bibliography, index . $19.75 paper...

...Carli LaPierre While the city is not geographically central to the United States, the authors of French St. Louis successfully demonstrate its significance within multiple contexts and well beyond the signing of the Louisiana Purchase. Both French and American, Eastern and Western, Northern...

.... Focusing on these nested accounts, the article seeks to develop an understanding of the context that led Blowsnake to include them—examples of autobiography en abyme —in his text. First, it draws on archival research into the killing and its legal consequences to examine Blowsnake's shifting accounts...

..., some lyrics continue to commemorate and praise ideals and heroes from the Tuareg rebellion. This essay explores the historical and ethnographic context of this genre and analyzes selected lyrics, performance contexts, and audience responses—first to tapes of rebel songs that circulated noncommercially...

...James W. Yount; Tsiazonera; Bram T. Tucker Cultural identity is flexible, rich, and often debated, shaped by local and larger contexts. In this article we explore some of the complexity and diversity of how Mikea identity is constructed, particularly by those who identify themselves...

... with its rituals and texts. Similar to many New Age Andean contexts, the group's cosmology combines an emphasis on the primordial nature of the Andes with an account of benign settlement and colonization. While arguably repressing the trauma of conquest and perpetuating racialized hegemonies, New Age...

...Siomonn Pulla Discussions relating to Frank Speck's contributions to anthropology during the early twentieth century mainly focus on his representations of aboriginal territoriality in eastern Canada. This essay situates Speck and his contributions to anthropology within the larger context...

...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...

... opportunities for income and social mobility in a context of dispossession and proletarianization while contributing to socioeconomic stratification. In a region where the traditional agricultural base declined during the twentieth century, participation in wage labor provided a source of regular cash income...

... and the administration of justice in Oaxaca, Mexico. The article begins by situating Oaxaca’s laws within the context of broader neoliberal reforms in Latin America characterized by the promulgation of multicultural constitutions recognizing the legal jurisdiction and cultural autonomy of Indigenous communities. Some...

...Stephanie Schmidt Abstract The Roman destruction of Jerusalem—as portrayed in medieval Christian legend—was a common referent in Spanish colonial historiography. In this context, it served to convey a sense of the magnitude of conquest in Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Multiple colonial texts also apply...

...Erik Damián Reyes Morales Abstract This work relies on the proposal that Aztlan was on the same islets of Texcoco Lake where Mexica founded Mexico-Tenochtitlan, that Teocolhuacan was where Iztapalapa town is today and that the Aztec-Mexica migration happened in the context of the great flood...

... in the colony, close attention to this Dharawal man’s life also demonstrates the need for caution in applying “models” for cross-cultural relations in colonial contexts. However stimulating “middle ground” or “native ground” ideas may be, cross-cultural interaction in early colonial New South Wales...

...-contained text to inquire into a history far removed from when it was actually created. Consequently, the colonial context of the text itself has been omitted, including the central role of Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez as transcriber and translator of the only available copy. This article reframes...