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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 173–194.
Published: 01 April 2024
... relationship could motivate or rationalize episodes of parent-child incest in colonial Guatemala. Examination of parent-child incest through this lens shows how sons and daughters could become entangled in the sexual and emotional lives of their parents, providing a more nuanced view of the lived experience...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 January 2022
... their children go? In the Archivo General de la Nación there is a 1772 supplication from Norberto de Casasola, an inhabitant of Quautla. 6 He was sentenced for incest and banished from his hometown. Later Norberto presented his case to the authorities and explained that in his town he had left his widowed...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 81–109.
Published: 01 January 2005
... no longer have the authority to intervene in the ethical
affairs of the people living on the block (they were his relatives by virtue
of their patrilateral ties to the butubutu of his father). If the children of the
people living on that land committed incest or got into some other trouble,
The Dynamics...
View articletitled, The Unintended Consequences of Clarification: Development, Disputing, and the Dynamics of Community in Ranongga, Solomon Islands
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 69–127.
Published: 01 January 2007
... that sodomy, or the nefarious act against nature, appeared oddly
absent, writing that “I have not learned of their doing this in this country,
nor do I believe they did so.”28
Apparently, the Maya did have defined categories and sanctions for
adultery, incest, and rape. Gaspar Antonio Xiu...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 515–535.
Published: 01 July 2019
... spaces equated to wrongdoing (e.g., incest in kivas and idolatry in the mountains) Spaniards’ descriptions and reported observations of native landscapes and their inhabitants did not exist apart from discourse. The terms that colonizers used to describe topographies and peoples remained tied to power...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 399–422.
Published: 01 April 2000
... to
become the moon, and each month both men and women are reminded of the
consequences of incest (Also see Lévi-Strauss 1978: 97–99.)
The association of the moon, menstruation, incest, and genipapo juice...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.
Published: 01 January 2007
... sexuales, 1519–1570,” in De la
santidad a la perversión, o de porqué no se cumplía la ley de Dios en la sociedad
novohispana, ed. Sergio Ortega (Mexico City, 1986), 38–39. Archbishop Alonso
de Montúfar concerned himself with Indian incest and bigamy. Indians were
not only...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 153–162.
Published: 01 January 2008
... (ca. 1554) took the matter further and, according to Horswell,
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in a far more dispassionately ethnographic direction. In the Andes of Cieza,
sodomy, incest, and berdache-like figures were found here and there, but
far more...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 July 2018
... they accused the cacique of rape, incest, murder and a variety of other offenses. Jorge Gamboa’s analysis of a case in Tota (1574–75) showed how similar allegations in Spanish courts could result from power struggles between factions within a cacicazgo, or from destabilized relationships between cacique...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the chiquatli may have alluded to a now-lost myth of the origin of the chiquatli, one that probably attributed its present avian form to a metamorphosis of man to bird, resulting from his transgression of the mother-son incest taboo. Several surviving Nahua cosmogonic mythemes indeed follow the structure...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 165–173.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., including “idolatry, sodomy, speaking
with the Devil, incest with their mothers and their daughters, tyranny, child-
The Moral Origins of Andean Khipu 169
murder, and drunken orgies that deprive them of the little sense they have”
(Montesinos 1644: Book III, ch. 28). He...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 637–662.
Published: 01 October 2013
... . Megged Amos Wood Stephanie , eds. Pp. 113 – 27 . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Rostworowski Maria de Diez Canseco 1960 Coöption to Kingship and Royal Incest among the Inca . Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 16 ( 4 ): 417 – 27 . Sahlins Marshall 1985...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 373–389.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... 1976 . “ The Persistence of Traditional Religious Practices among Creek Indians .” PhD diss., Southern Methodist University . Schneider David M. 1957 . “ Political Organization, Supernatural Sanctions and the Punishment for Incest on Yap .” American Anthropologist 59 : 791 – 800...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 417–440.
Published: 01 July 2018
... a band. We are living in this place for a long time. It’s important for the young people to know about our history.” The rules of kinship associating incest with descent and cohabitation continue to be followed nowadays in Slate Falls. Instead of looking for potential mates from distantly related...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 27–45.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in New Mexico stated that Native houses were “places where they speak to the devil.” 81 For some officials, engaging in nonorthodox rituals signified “formal heresy to the level of atheism.” 82 In New Mexico, Fray Nicolás Chávez claimed that the Pueblo used kivas to commit idolatry and incest...
View articletitled, Accessing the Divine: Indigenous Medical Specialists, Catholic Priests, and Nonorthodox Methods of Healing in Colonial Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 289–315.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Cortés, Tochcoyotzin, of Tollocan royal lineage, was accused of incest and idolatry. Subsequently he was banished to Mexico City and placed in a Franciscan monastery, never to return. If institutionalized religion effected family constitution, then the frailty of human health was of equal...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 357–359.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and risky
interpretive techniques to convey this magic. She relies heavily on body
metaphors to examine ways in which Maya culture and the state are per-
ceived by Guatemalans—from rape and incest to clothing and transvestism...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 359–361.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and risky
interpretive techniques to convey this magic. She relies heavily on body
metaphors to examine ways in which Maya culture and the state are per-
ceived by Guatemalans—from rape and incest to clothing and transvestism...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 361–363.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and risky
interpretive techniques to convey this magic. She relies heavily on body
metaphors to examine ways in which Maya culture and the state are per-
ceived by Guatemalans—from rape and incest to clothing and transvestism...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 363–364.
Published: 01 April 2001
... and risky
interpretive techniques to convey this magic. She relies heavily on body
metaphors to examine ways in which Maya culture and the state are per-
ceived by Guatemalans—from rape and incest to clothing and transvestism...
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