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Toward the Decipherment of a Set of Mid-Colonial Khipus from the Santa Valley, Coastal Peru
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2018
... on the social organization of the population identified in the revisit document. It is suggested that the names of the tributaries may be signed by color coding in the khipus. Khipu (quipu) Peru decipherment writing administration 15 Urton 2017 : 97. 16 Ibid., 228. 17 The 133 first...
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New Insights on Cord Attachment and Social Hierarchy in Six Khipus from the Santa Valley, Peru
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (4): 443–469.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Mackinley FitzPatrick Abstract This article analyzes the potential khipu-document “match” involving six Inka-style khipus from Peru’s Santa Valley that record data similar to a 1670 colonial census of San Pedro de Corongo. Despite its potential as a breakthrough in khipu decipherment, crucial...
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Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
...José Carlos de la Puente Abstract Despite the critical advances toward khipu decipherment, the specific ways in which Andean khipu masters captured and organized the course of time in their cords, in the form of ages, dates, chronologies, and calendric intervals and cycles, remains obscure...
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The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Vol.1: The Classic Period Inscriptions
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 439–441.
Published: 01 April 2006
... from the authors’ eclectic
vision of the hieroglyphs as a ‘‘transdialectal script’’ (9). Such practice falls
below current standards of evidence for the decipherment of logographs
(see Houston et al. 2001: 7–10), the vast majority of which have but one
reading, regardless of geographic region...
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The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 442–443.
Published: 01 April 2006
... from the authors’ eclectic
vision of the hieroglyphs as a ‘‘transdialectal script’’ (9). Such practice falls
below current standards of evidence for the decipherment of logographs
(see Houston et al. 2001: 7–10), the vast majority of which have but one
reading, regardless of geographic region...
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Khipu Transcription Typologies: A Corpus-Based Study of the Textos Andinos
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
... 2016 ; Urton and Brezine 2011 ; see also Quave 2009 : 248), both sides of the “khipu divide” have demonstrated a sense that aggregation has much to contribute to khipu preservation, diffusion, and decipherment. Calls to compile khipu data are longstanding. Since Max Uhle’s ( 1897 : 63) suggestion...
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From the Classic Royal Court to Postclassic Migrations and Celestial Narratives: Archaeological, Ethnohistoric, and Epigraphic Perspectives on Mesoamerica
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 793–804.
Published: 01 October 2014
... of the history of Maya hieroglyphic decipherment.
Chapter 1 considers the nature of the script, with an emphasis on reading
order, the different types of glyphs found, and the methodologies used for
transcription, transliteration, and translation, followed by a discussion of
spelling and language...
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Three Visions of the Maya, Three Visions of Mayanists: Maudslay,proskouriakoff, and Schele
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 429–433.
Published: 01 April 2004
... of epigraphy led in large part to the decipherments that
have opened up a vast wealth of indigenous history, completely changing
our understanding of pre-Columbian Maya society. Yet Solomon’s work
is enjoyable and insightful because it is surprisingly personal and does not
exhibit the sort of hero worship...
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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
... of the “essential structure of culture” (8).
Monographic in scale and beautifully illustrated, To Be Like Gods is
remarkably thorough. The body of the book begins with an analysis of the
textual evidence left by the Maya, providing a summary of decipherment
history. Given the terse nature of Mayan...
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Empires of Xolotl: Two Opening Compositions of the Codex Xolotl
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 455–491.
Published: 01 October 2021
... decipherment Chichimecs Indigenous historiography Dedicated to the memory of Raymond D. Fogelson (1933–2020) Throughout the Americas, Indigenous people, separated from the remainder of the world for more than fifteen thousand years, continued devising solutions to human needs, including...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2010
... to grammatology, the
decipherment of Maya glyphs—a true phonographic system, with other
components adjoined—is no longer only a study of the “classic” Maya age.
Archaeological finds such as the “Cascajal block” (Rodríguez Martínez et
al. 2006) have begun to yield tantalizing evidence...
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Reevaluating Chronology and Historical Content in the Maya Books of Chilam Balam
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 681–713.
Published: 01 October 2014
... David 2001 The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Hurtado Cen Araceli Bastida Aleida Cetina Tiesler Vera Folan William J. 2007 Sacred Spaces and Human Funerary and Nonfunerary Placements in Champotón, Campeche, during...
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Une Histoire de La Religion Des Mayas: Du Panthéisme Au Panthéon
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 445–448.
Published: 01 April 2004
... own alphabet deploys vowels and conso-
nants. This is a necessary argument for Baudez. It allows him to disallow
firm decipherments, such as David Stuart’s of the witz or ‘‘hill’’ sign, that
would dismiss large portions of Baudez’s discussion of ‘‘cauac monsters’’
and the like. It is also necessary...
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Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 448–450.
Published: 01 April 2004
... own alphabet deploys vowels and conso-
nants. This is a necessary argument for Baudez. It allows him to disallow
firm decipherments, such as David Stuart’s of the witz or ‘‘hill’’ sign, that
would dismiss large portions of Baudez’s discussion of ‘‘cauac monsters’’
and the like. It is also necessary...
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Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 450–453.
Published: 01 April 2004
... deploys vowels and conso-
nants. This is a necessary argument for Baudez. It allows him to disallow
firm decipherments, such as David Stuart’s of the witz or ‘‘hill’’ sign, that
would dismiss large portions of Baudez’s discussion of ‘‘cauac monsters’’
and the like. It is also necessary because Baudez...
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A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 453–454.
Published: 01 April 2004
... is painfully misguided. For example, he argues that syllabic and logo-
graphic approaches are incompatible, as though the script did not consist
of both elements, much as our own alphabet deploys vowels and conso-
nants. This is a necessary argument for Baudez. It allows him to disallow
firm decipherments...
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Essie's Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 454–457.
Published: 01 April 2004
... not consist
of both elements, much as our own alphabet deploys vowels and conso-
nants. This is a necessary argument for Baudez. It allows him to disallow
firm decipherments, such as David Stuart’s of the witz or ‘‘hill’’ sign, that
would dismiss large portions of Baudez’s discussion of ‘‘cauac monsters...
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Peyote and the Yankton Sioux: The Life and Times of Sam Necklace
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 243–245.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and present), biographical information, the history of Maya
studies and decipherment, geographical data, and even ethnographic com-
mentary, Glassman succeeds in providing an engaging context for both
reading Stephens’s books and learning more about Mesoamerica. Glass-
man himself affirms that his book does...
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Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 245–246.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and present), biographical information, the history of Maya
studies and decipherment, geographical data, and even ethnographic com-
mentary, Glassman succeeds in providing an engaging context for both
reading Stephens’s books and learning more about Mesoamerica. Glass-
man himself affirms that his book does...
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Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 246–248.
Published: 01 January 2006
... bibliography on varied top-
ics pertaining to Mexico and Central America in general. Moreover, by
juxtaposing Stephens’s own words with information about the political
context (past and present), biographical information, the history of Maya
studies and decipherment, geographical data, and even...
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