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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2018
... proceedings against Nahua women in Central Mexico (in conjunction with other primary sources), this article demonstrates that female titiçih were not analogous to Spanish midwives. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century female titiçih — like their ancestors—were practitioners of tiçiyotl who gazed into water...
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in Testing the Limits of Colonial Parenting: Navajo Domestic Workers, the Intermountain Indian School, and the Urban Relocation Program, 1950–1962
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Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 7. Female student gains domestic work experience attending to chores at the “practice home” on campus. Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956 . Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
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in The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 4. Female deities, likely Chak Chel, are shown producing water from their bodies on pages 30b and 32b of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Plates XXV, XXVII), courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC.
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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 8. Cortés receiving Malintzin (Malinche) “with other female Slaves as a present,” from A World Displayed (first published in London in the 1760s). Reproduced courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 399–422.
Published: 01 April 2000
... with the human female reproductive cycle; (2) associate Pachycondyla commutata ants with menarche and female initiation rites; and (3)prescribe the stings of Pseudomyrmex spp. ants as therapy for fever and inflammatory conditions. Such knowledge, however unequally shared in modern languages and cultures, appears...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Jan Noel This article casts light on the gender of fur traders by tapping into new analysis of Albany and Canadian records from the colonial period. A surprising number of active, sometimes outspoken, female participants emerge. Exploring the underlying reasons for this phenomenon, the article...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 385–404.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and upheld by Mexican law, and an unwritten Indigenous citizenship that included both adult males and females. Based on close readings of criminal records, government reports, and correspondence between state officials and local Zapotec authorities in the Tlacolula Valley, this article demonstrates...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 159–176.
Published: 01 January 2007
... of Aguilar's sexual and physical difference, recast in gendered and racialized terms. He used these assertions to make certain claims of categorization that attempted to naturalize the female genitalia and to argue that female anatomical and physiological ambiguity led to sexual deviance. American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 489–533.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans ( machi weye ) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 145–162.
Published: 01 January 2019
... represented in each article, (3) the topic, and (4) data sources used by the author(s). We then analyzed each category in representative ten-year intervals from 1954 to 2013. Such data reveals trends that mirror intellectual, scholarly, and demographic changes in the social sciences overall. Female authorship...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 565–592.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Figure 7. Female student gains domestic work experience attending to chores at the “practice home” on campus. Intermountain School Yearbook, Class of 1956 . Intermountain Indian School Collection, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. ...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 689–719.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Figure 4. Female deities, likely Chak Chel, are shown producing water from their bodies on pages 30b and 32b of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Plates XXV, XXVII), courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC. ...
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in The Serpent Within: Birth Rituals and Midwifery Practices in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Mesoamerican Cultures
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 3. Couples facing each other in the almanac on pages 93b–94b of the Madrid Codex ( Troano Codex ) (Brasseur de Bourbourg 1869–70 : Plates XIX-XX). Several, if not all, of the females appear to be pregnant. Courtesy of Boundary End Center, Barnardsville, NC.
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 811–816.
Published: 01 October 2004
.... Analyzing tupu pins (fasteners for closing garments) and pot-
tery, all from the Early Intermediate period (roughly 200 BC to AD 600),
Gero finds evidence of female power, high status, and subordination. She
cautions that status and power are not easily read from the archaeological
record, even when we...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 817–823.
Published: 01 October 2004
... the Early Intermediate period (roughly 200 BC to AD 600),
Gero finds evidence of female power, high status, and subordination. She
cautions that status and power are not easily read from the archaeological
record, even when we may be able to learn a lot about the gender division
812...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 579–607.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., judges, police—were some of the
most important relations Mayan marketers experienced. The confronta-
tions that emerge in the criminal record between vendors and authorities
demonstrate that highland markets (and especially their female vendors)
were critical both to ladino liberals’ efforts...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 177–186.
Published: 01 January 2007
... the active/passive
model of sexual behavior that, also like him, she argues Spaniards sought
to impose.
Arguments that indigenous peoples were feminized by the Spanish
conquest and colonial legal and economic practices depend on the Spanish
construction of female gender norms...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 361–391.
Published: 01 July 2008
... Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Horn, Rebecca 1997 Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Kanter, Deborah E. 1995 Native Female Land...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 673–687.
Published: 01 October 2005
... drinks designed to
control men’s sexual behavior or take revenge against male and female ene-
mies, chocolate took on multiple meanings, at once as a popular beverage
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of daily life and as an instrument of women’s power in local...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 303–335.
Published: 01 April 2007
... had been constructed for it (Betancur Col-
lection, vol. 7, fols. 283v–84). Female ritual specialists (mamakuna) were
assigned to the mummy, and a special contingent of retainers and male
ritual specialists presented the mummy with food and drink and carried it
in a litter to important...
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