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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 698–699.
Published: 01 October 2018
...John F. Schwaller The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City . By Barbara E. Mundy . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . 256 pp., illustrations, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index . $45.00 paper.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
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Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 401–402.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of post-genocidal Guatemala, a place and time where everyday violence produces the levels of human death experienced during the armed conflict; it provides compelling ethnographic vignettes that invite readers to continue in the dense text. This section also outlines Nelson’s unique theoretical framework...
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Cihuacuecuenotzin’s death. Original image, X.070.A, (top) and line drawing ...
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in The Transcoding of the Codex Xolotl in Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca
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Published: 01 January 2019
Figure 4. Cihuacuecuenotzin’s death. Original image, X.070.A, (top) and line drawing (bottom). Image courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; drawing by author.
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Victoria R. Bricker; Rebecca E. Hill Dense collections of eighteenth-century wills and death registers from Tekanto and Ixil, two towns in northern Yucatan, represent hitherto unexplored sources for documenting the relationship between natural disasters and mortality patterns among the Yucatecan...
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Feeding Chilapa: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., renamed Pemisapan after the
death of his brother, vowed to starve the newcomers. Frightened by rumors
of an Indian alliance against the colony, Lane launched an attack resulting
in the murder of the Roanoke weroance and many of his people. A hurricane
that followed further weakened the Roanoke...
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Reinterpreting Sacrality among the Ancient Maya: Recent Works on the Deified Nature of Death, Dance, and Geography
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 467–470.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Turner, Victor 1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Reinterpreting Sacrality among the Ancient Maya:
Recent Works on the Deified Nature of Death,
Dance, and Geography
Amara Solari...
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Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532–1670
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 756–757.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Matthew A. Redinger Death and Conversion in the Andes: Lima and Cuzco, 1532–1670 . By Ramos Gabriela . ( Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2010 . xi + 356 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $39.00 paper.) Copyright...
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Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Patricia Galloway Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800 . By Seeman Erik R. . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2010 . 384 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, endnotes, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American...
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Death of Pedro de Alvarado in the year 10 House, 1541. Detail from Codex Te...
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in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
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Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 6. Death of Pedro de Alvarado in the year 10 House, 1541. Detail from Codex Telleriano-Remensis, f. 46r. Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala and the Politics of Death
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 July 2014
...James H. McDonald Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala and the Politics of Death . By Levenson Deborah T. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 . xi + 183 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, figures, notes, bibliography, index . $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2014...
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Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 770–772.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Wesley Y. Leonard Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada. By Perley Bernard C. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . xiv + 235 pp., acknowledgments, notes on terminology and orthography, map, notes...
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The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
...León García Garagarza Abstract This essay examines some instances of interspecific dialogues between owls and human beings recorded in Nahuatl-language sources from the sixteenth century. Since ancient times, owls have been considered omens of death in Mexico. This article analyzes the cultural...
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Dark Shamans. Kanaimá And the Poetics of Violent Death
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 854–857.
Published: 01 October 2004
...
School, Varga’s career was derailed by war and her early death.
Alice Bacon and Robert Morton are key figures in Lee D. Baker’s
excursions into Afro-American folklore of the Hampton Institute. Franz
Boas, Elsie Clews Parsons, and other mainstream Americanist anthropolo-
gists were drawn...
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Nahuatl Theater. Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 786–787.
Published: 01 October 2006
...David Tavárez Nahuatl Theater. Volume 1, Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico. Edited and translated by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart. Foreword by Miguel Léon-Portilla. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xxviii + 337 pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, appendixes...
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Chocolate in the Underworld Space of Death: Cacao Seeds from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 April 2007
... indicates that cacao is an integral component in many rites of passage, including those associated with birth, social personhood, initiation, marriage, and death, as well as the initiation of shamans. As such it becomes an intimate ritual product implicated in areas of social identity and reproduction...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 473–508.
Published: 01 July 2007
...-American diseases leading up to the tribe's massive depopulation in the late nineteenth century. The most striking finding is that the cultural practices and religious customs with which the Kansa responded to these tremendous changes made matters worse for them. Their adherence to death customs...
View articletitled, Furthering Their Own Demise: How Kansa Indian <span class="search-highlight">Death</span> Customs Accelerated Their Depopulation
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Rethinking the Amazon Frontier in the Seventeenth Century: The Violent Deaths of the Missionaries Luis Figueira and Francisco Pires
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Pablo Ibáñez-Bonillo Abstract This article analyzes the violent deaths of two Jesuit missionaries in the regions of Marajó (Pará) and the Itapecuru River (Maranhão). Their tragic end serves as a starting point through which one can explore the social relations that took place between Europeans...
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“Through Death’s Wilderness”: Malaria, Seminole Environmental Knowledge, and the Florida Wars of Removal
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 3–25.
Published: 01 January 2024
... City: Bureau of US Topographical Engineers, 1838. Prior to the twentieth century, battle was almost never the deadliest part of war. Disease usually felled far more soldiers than bullets or blades, and the Second Seminole War was no exception. Of the 1,465 deaths among regular army soldiers...
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The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
... animals described, and in particular by the partridges and their severe distress and death after finding themselves caged onboard. The phenomenon of Spanish imperial collecting—which prompted the capture of these wild partridges in the colonies and their eventual transatlantic shipment—relate...
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