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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 753–758.
Published: 01 October 2003
... of which will require both knowl-
edge and action.
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales. By James D.
Sexton and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán. (Washington, dc: Smithsonian Institu-
tion Press...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Jessica Joyce Christie Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals . By Ari Waskar . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . xiii + 262 pp., acknowledgments, two appendixes, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, index . $89.95 cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 764–765.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Theresa M. Schenck Reference Doerfler Jill 2007 “ Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values among the White Earth Nation .” PhD diss., University of Minnesota . Appendix 1 is the Revised Constitution and Bylaws of the Minnesota Chippewa...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 345–377.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Jean M. O’Brien Abstract In Jean M. O’Brien’s 2013 American Society for Ethnohistory Presidential Address, “Memory and Mobility: Grandma’s Mahnomen, White Earth,” she uses reminiscences of her grandmother, Edna Wright Tonneson, to explore the coming of her family to the White Earth Ojibwe...
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in Hurtling off a Precipice, Falling into a River: A Nahuatl Metaphor and the Christian Concept of Sin
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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 2a. Graphic similarities in representing the interior of the earth; Codex Borgia pl. 63. Drawing by the author.
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 29–65.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Jaap Timmer Imyan people of the southwestern Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya await an event that promises wealth, justice, and a new world order: Jesus Christ's kingdom on earth. Millennial beliefs among the Imyan derive from a potent blend of Christian doctrine, ancestral transgressions...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 163–185.
Published: 01 January 2009
... a practice of topographic memory that relies on the perspective of earth, sky, and underworld afforded by the moving, perceiving, conscious, and responsive person. Understood in this way, the listing of place-names is a form of cartographic imagination that incorporates history, geography, astronomy, ethics...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 205–225.
Published: 01 January 2000
... lore. Human agency, however, was accorded a significant role in redressing this universal tendency to entropy, and ritual leaders claimed the ability to induce an apocalyptic, earth-renewing fall of fertile soil from the sky. The adoption of Christian understandings of the Apocalypse as the revelation...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Justyna Olko This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
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mentioned in the Rab’inal Achi indicates a cultural episteme relatively
concordant with the preconquest Mayas, particularly in regard to a con-
nection between the human body and the earth. While anthropomorphic
features are used to discuss everyday spatial mapping in Maya languages
(such as Kaqchikel...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 41–68.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of Earth Sciences 28 : 1583 -93. Gunther, Erna 1925 Klallum Folk Tales. University of Washington Publications in Anthropology 1 (4): 113 -69. Harris, Heather 1997 Remembering 10,000 Years of History: The Origins and Migrations of the Gitksan. In At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 January 2016
... freedom to insert new material at
will.”41
Multiplicity and opportunity for innovation abound. Earth Doctor
(Earth Magician, Jewed Ma:kai, or the Prophet of the Earth) is one of many
world-builders, as quasi-brother gods and human beings serve as comple-
mentary agents of change throughout cycles...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 April 2007
.... Brady 2005 Q'eqchi' Pilgrimage and Cave Ritual: Implications for Archaeological Interpretation. In In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use . J. E. Brady and K. M. Prufer, eds. Pp. 301 -27. Austin: University of Texas Press. Ascher, Robert 1961 Analogy in Archaeological...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 689–719.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the wearer to the celestial realm, and more specifically indicates her connection to the moon. In pre-Hispanic contexts (see below), serpents are more commonly associated with the underworld or serve as conduits between the earth’s interior and its surface (Miller and Taube 1993 : 150; Stone 1995 : 23...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 733–734.
Published: 01 October 2016
... in early histories written by land usurpers” (9). Miller outlines his argument in the preface, providing a refrain repeated throughout the book: “In all, mounds mimic the Earth, as a microcosm built and maintained by human hands, tools, sweat, and prayers, paced by rituals, songs, and dances. Built...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 489–513.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 2a. Graphic similarities in representing the interior of the earth; Codex Borgia pl. 63. Drawing by the author. ...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 731–746.
Published: 01 October 2000
..., and Salomon Nahmad, eds. Pp. 81 -89. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-yala. 1996 “ The Te'kuana Self-Demarcation Project: The Legal Issue .” Unpublished manuscript. 1997 On the Origin of the Earth: The Basis of Ye'kuana Political Mobilization. Paper presented at the Indigenous Traditions and Ecology Conference...
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