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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 825–827.
Published: 01 October 2004
...: Harcourt, Brace & World. Haraway, Donna 1989 Primate Visions: Gender,Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science . New York:Routledge. Landau, Misia 1991 Narratives of Human Evolution . New Haven: Yale University Press. Moser, Stephanie 1998 Ancestral Images: The Iconography...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Elizabeth R. Bell The Rab'inal Achi , a Maya drama originating in the sixteenth century, contains an encoded discourse about the human body. Using four components—the heart, the whole body, the navel, and the head—this play explores and negotiates the territorial disputes of the Maya region during...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 765–767.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Daniel Morley Johnson Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. By Gananath Obeyesekere. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xx + 320 pp., preface, maps, illustrations, index. $21.95 paper, $55.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Sarahh Scher Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Unification . By Besom Thomas . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . xvii + 309 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, introduction, epilogue, appendixes, notes, glossary, references, index...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of critical debates that were occurring at the time, literally changing the ways that colonial masters interacted with their subaltern subjects. Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia therefore allows us a glimpse into a vanishing world, a time when certainty was part of science, even...
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in The Sixteenth-Century Zinacantepec Census: Between Ethnohistory and Historical Demography
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 April 2020
Figure 1. Human sacrifice by the Temple of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The picture is accompanied by an anonymous alphabetical annotation providing historical detail. Source: BNF, fonds mexicains, 30 ( Codex Telleriano-Remensis 1995 : fol. 38v.).
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 4. Panel two at Cheval Bonnet with Blackfoot-style horse and human. Lines at upper right may originally have been a horse, now too eroded to identify. Illustration by author from on-site tracing by author
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in Hurtling off a Precipice, Falling into a River: A Nahuatl Metaphor and the Christian Concept of Sin
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3a. Human figures “falling down,” Codex Borgia pl. 66. Drawing by the author.
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in Hurtling off a Precipice, Falling into a River: A Nahuatl Metaphor and the Christian Concept of Sin
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3b. Human figures “falling down,” Codex Borgia pl. 53. Drawing by the author.
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the late-nineteenth-
century Warm Springs Apaches’ struggle against the white invaders into
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the heady realms of timeless mysticism, a mysticism that belies their very
human struggle to survive. Most disappointingly, while promising...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 618–619.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Sylvia Sellers-García For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala . By Martha Few . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2015 . x + 292 pp., introduction, figures, maps, bibliography, index. $34.95 paperback). Copyright 2019 by American...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 8. Crow indicators in rock art. These include the elongated, fluidly posed humans with modeled thighs and calves (a, b, d); horses with high, arched necks (c, d, e); and horses wearing feather bonnets (d, e). Illustration by author
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 9. Blackfoot-style horses are much more angular and have a different head and neck configuration than those identified as Crow. They are typically associated with humans presented in rectangular, V-neck, or hourglass-body style. Illustration by author from on-site tracings by author
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in The Disguise of the Hummingbird: On the Natural History of Huitzilopochtli in the Florentine Codex
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 17. Quauhtlotli , or “eagle-falcon,” feeding a heart to Huitzilopochtli as a hummingbird-human deity. Florentine Codex , book 11, fol. 47v. MS Mediceo Palatino 220, c. 199v, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. By permission of MiBAC. Further reproduction by any means is forbidden.
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Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 17. Quauhtlotli , or “eagle-falcon,” feeding a heart to Huitzilopochtli as a hummingbird-human deity. Florentine Codex , book 11, fol. 47v. MS Mediceo Palatino 220, c. 199v, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence. By permission of MiBAC. Further reproduction by any means is forbidden.
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 271–296.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., and advocacy for more humane indigenous policy, was unprecedented in its cultural specificity. Marlière also contributed directly and indirectly to the production of canonical texts authored by European scientists. In this article, Bieber recovers Marlière’s vivid, humanizing observations about Jê peoples...
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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 (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
... aboard ship for several weeks or more developed relationships with one another and with their human caretakers. Their lived experiences show the multiple and complicated ways in which individual captured birds and other creatures helped shape those shipboard environments, disrupting systemic human...
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in The Tecolotl and the Chiquatli: Omens of Death and Transspecies Dialogues in the Aztec World
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 18. Tonalamatl Aubin, p. 20. Twentieth Trecena: 1-Tochtli. In this manuscript, the Lords of Day appear as human masks attached to their corresponding flyers, emphasizing the unity of their ominous calls. The artist conventionally renders both the Chicuatli and the Tecolotl owls from
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Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 18. Tonalamatl Aubin, p. 20. Twentieth Trecena: 1-Tochtli. In this manuscript, the Lords of Day appear as human masks attached to their corresponding flyers, emphasizing the unity of their ominous calls. The artist conventionally renders both the Chicuatli and the Tecolotl owls from
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