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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Néstor I. Quiroa The highland Guatemala títulos are part of a corpus of colonial Mesoamerican indigenous texts composed by native authors in the middle of the sixteenth century. These texts present an “official” version of native “history” based on the precolonial oral tradition and influenced...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 171–204.
Published: 01 January 2000
... been pointed out to me in Pairundu (Southern Highlands Province) and how they were looked upon five years later. Surprisingly, subsequent fieldwork in Koimumu(West New Britain Province) showed that apocalyptic narratives seemed to be absent. Analyzing the ethnographic data, I will start...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 836–838.
Published: 01 October 2000
... Costumes. Austin: University of Texas Press. Book Reviews
Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador. Edited by Ann Pollard Rowe.
(Seattle: University of Washington Press, xxii + pp., preface,
maps, black and white color plates, glossary...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 123–155.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Pier M. Larson This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 541–542.
Published: 01 July 2001
...David Carey, Jr. Edited by Marshall N. Peterson. (Lancaster, : Labyrinthos,1999. xviii + 105 pp. preface, introduction, maps, tables, illustrations,bibliography. $12.50 paper.) 2001 Book Reviews
The Highland Maya in Fact and Legend...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 609–632.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Stephen E. Lewis Based on documents housed in Mexico City and Chiapas, this essay describes how Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) managed to establish its pilot Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas in 1951. Facing opposition from the state government, the state alcohol monopoly...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 April 2018
... has remained largely unexplored. In repelling the Spanish-led invasion, Highland Maya communities employed various strategies that drew on the cunning and deceit that they so highly valued in their warriors. The Spaniards, however, were highly critical of such conduct, which did not conform...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 553–572.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Judith M. Maxwell The Maya people have long traditions of literacy, but the evidence of this literacy varies within regions. In the highlands, literacy switched to alphabetic representations shortly after contact, and as the indigenous nobility was extinguished, writing shifted more and more toward...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 623–649.
Published: 01 July 2015
... behind the emergence of colonial indigenous religions. Language, Catechisms, and Mesoamerican Lords
in Highland Guatemala: Addressing “God” after
the Spanish Conquest
Sergio Romero, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract. The textual sources of indigenous Christianities in Guatemala embody...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 383–385.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Brian Stross Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala . By Deuss Krystyna . ( London : Guatemalan Maya Centre , 2007 . 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $55.00 paper.) Copyright 2014...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 January 2022
... the present sun first rose (Chinchilla Mazariegos 2018 ; see Neurath 2013 :21–23 for similar beliefs among the modern Huichol). That was also the fate of the gods in Nahua and highland Maya religion. In sixteenth-century Nahua myths, the gods died at the time of the first sunrise; the sun god died...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Mallory E. Matsumoto Abstract The colonial-era documents commonly referred to as títulos were composed in Maya communities of the Guatemalan highlands in the context of significant societal change following the initial Spanish conquests in the region in 1524. Based on detailed analysis of five...
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in Recording Territory, Recording History: Negotiating the Sociopolitical Landscape in Colonial Highland Maya Títulos
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2016
Figure 1. Map of contemporary Guatemala showing select Highland Maya communities mentioned in the Nija’ib’ and other títulos cited in this article. Detail of image PIA03364, courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/NIMA, modified by the author
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 673–674.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Kate Williams By Margaret Connell Szasz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xv + 281 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Book Reviews
Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 January 2007
...George M. Lauderbaugh Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador. By Judy Blankenship. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. ix + 209 pp., maps, 41 black-and-white photographs. $21.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book Reviews
The Americas That Might Have Been...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Jerry K. Jacka Ipili speakers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea creatively use the category “whiteman” both to structure their longing for socioeconomic progress and development and to critique the very institutions associated with development that they desire. This article explores the history...
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Local Responses to the Ethnic Geography of Colonialism in the Gusii Highlands of British-Ruled Kenya
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 491–523.
Published: 01 July 2011
.... Theoretically, each “tribe” had a “homeland” that the state set aside for their exclusive use. Problems developed when more populous ethnic groups outgrew their assigned reserves and coveted the territory of European settler farmers in the “white highlands” and that of less populous tribes. The resulting...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2013
...: Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia . In The Anthropology of Christianity . Fenally Canell , ed. Pp. 51 – 67 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Hastorf Christine Arnold Denise 2008 Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 333–368.
Published: 01 April 2000
...Jean Michaud This article provides an overview of the recent interactions between the highlanders of northern Vietnamand the successive powers that controlled the state between 1802 and 1975: Imperial Vietnam until 1883, the French colonial state until 1954, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 205–225.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Chris Ballard Christian notions of the Apocalypse, which were first introduced to Huli speakers of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea during the 1950s,encountered an existing indigenous eschatology, or doctrine of last things. Precontact Huli cosmology posited a moral constitution...
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