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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 603–613.
Published: 01 July 2006
... of Oklahoma
Press.
Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell?
Reconsidering the Myth of Racial
Democracy in Brazil
Hal Langfur, State University of New York, Buffalo
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945.
By Peter M. Beattie. (Durham, NC: Duke...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Aaron M. Hyman Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes . By Suarez Ananda Cohen . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . xi+274 pp., introduction, color plates, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright 2018 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 489–513.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as falling, while associating the downward direction with a moral collapse, followed by a punishment. Moreover, it is at the bottom of the universe that hell is situated, perceived of as a great hole or pit. This notion of sin is present in every single piece of doctrinal literature in Nahuatl, from...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with great care, a practice encouraged in the first week of the exercises (Maeder 1984 : 130). 11 One of the key methods of meditation in the Spiritual Exercises was to elicit the use of the senses in imagining the location of biblical narratives, heaven, hell, and numerous stories of the life...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 187–194.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., indigenous
minds did not conceive of sex as inherently linked to sin, which was typical
of morality as proclaimed by the Catholic Church. Nor was it obvious to
them that sexual behavior would condemn them to hell, for it is likely that
many were not fully indoctrinated in the concept of hell itself...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 January 2006
... with their many unanswered questions, it is appropriate
to end the essay with the words of a Turkana song about Namoratunga.
Who knows how the standing stones were forged?
Who knows how to make the fire of Namoratunga?
The Hell fire will return worse than ever
The fires of Hell will come...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 207–208.
Published: 01 January 2016
... ironic that the book
begins with notions of heaven and hell, as this was the main focus of the
Spanish conquest.
Altogether, the variety of subjects, the numerous images, the thematic
bibliography, and the index at the end of the book make Lexikon of the
Hispanic Baroque a useful research tool...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 595–601.
Published: 01 July 2006
....
1993 Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press.
Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell?
Reconsidering the Myth of Racial
Democracy in Brazil
Hal Langfur, State University of New York, Buffalo
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 439–441.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... Chapter 7 is perhaps Woolford’s most novel contribution to boarding school studies. There he investigates how boarding schools enlisted nonhuman actors, including space, time, geography, disease, the concept of hell, food, poverty, and blood—too often forgotten agents—to destroy Indigenous cultures...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 691–711.
Published: 01 October 2012
... back where he came from.
Depressed and feeling as though he had failed his mission, Sebastian prayed
to God for forgiveness. He asked to be burned and tormented in hell for
his ineptitude while pleading for God’s mercy to fall upon the people. God
himself replied to Sebastian, telling him...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 797–800.
Published: 01 October 2000
... uprisings fit the same mold. Susan M. Deeds, the
sole contributor to both Contested Ground and New Views, distinguishes
between the rst generation’’ Acaxee revolt, hell-bent to eliminate
everything Spanish and revitalize the old ways, and the Yaqui rebel-
lion, which sought instead ‘‘to repair damages...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
... in the fields bellowing and howling terribly and frightfully). A second gloss then adds that famished howls will serve as an object lesson for sinners, “para que entiendan la hambre Infernal que padeceran enel Infierno” (177; that they may understand the hellish hunger that they will suffer in Hell...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 171–204.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of the ‘‘last day’’ (las de), the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, who
would descend to earth, resurrect the dead, and take all the good Christians
with him to heaven while everybody else would go to hell. This apocalyptic
prediction...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 753–758.
Published: 01 October 2003
... the rich and powerful, in this collection represented by
‘‘The Gold and Silver Fish ‘‘The Rich and Miserable Man and ‘‘The
6999 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:4 / sheet 173 of Woman Who Died for Three Days and Went to Get Acquainted with Hell
History is recounted...
View articletitled, Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales; The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Revitalization
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 249–256.
Published: 01 January 2000
... are ‘‘constantly
knocking all systems and theories to hell I think those humans (i.e., ‘‘real’’
humans) scare many archaeologists, specifically because they are unpredict-
able and are constantly violating even the best models. In my...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 215–235.
Published: 01 April 2016
... to hell in fig. 1 , first row). In other exemplars, images parade in linear sequences, each figure corresponding neatly to a word or short phrase, an arrangement that, in the other glossed catechisms, facilitated tidy sub- or supertitling. His text also features far more rebuses than any other of its...
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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
... must first forgive others). His children, free from worries, left (they were tranquil, in peace). The evil man and the thief are going to Hell (the house of the Devil). When we leave this world, because of having prayed to God (the incense burner), because of having suffered, we will go (be liberated...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 291–310.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Latin American Review 14 , no. 2 : 299 – 321 . Villa-Flores Javier . 2006 . “ Voices from a Living Hell: Slavery, Death, and Salvation in a Mexican Obraje .” In Local Religion in Colonial Mexico , edited by Nesvig Martin Austin , 235 – 56 . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 January 2007
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the person burns in hell. I present two problems with these concepts. First,
there is no primary evidence for any significant penalties against the cui-
loni (or the xochihua) in preconquest Mesoamerica.44 Second, the Nahua
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 715–738.
Published: 01 October 2014
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The counterbalance of Michael’s scales at the Last Judgment sends
sinners to the inferno. After Michael expelled Satan and his cohort from
heaven, they entered Hell through the maw of a monster.51 The mock battles
fought at medieval European fairs on Saint Michael’s feast day, 29 Septem-
ber, were meant...
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