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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 293–321.
Published: 01 April 2011
... by the mytho-historical content of the better-known indigenous text, the Popol Vuh. Although the títulos were created for territorial disputes and claims to rights before the Spanish legal system, they also represented Maya-K’iche’ responses to colonial domination and reveal how the Maya K’iche’ perceived...
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Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nijai’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors”
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Owen H. Jones Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nijai’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors.” By Mallory E. Matsumoto ( Boulder : University of Colorado Press , 2017 . viii + 423 pp., figures, maps, tables, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 332–333.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Garry Sparks Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds: Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K’iche’ Community . By MacKenzie C. James . ( Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . xi+368 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index . $34.95 paper.) Copyright...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 241–270.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the Popol Vuh within its historical and physical ecclesiastic context, recovering Friar Ximénez’s voice within his manuscript. It is argued that his work was first and foremost intended to be a religious treatise to carry out the conversion of the K’iche’ to Christianity. This study offers an alternative...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 493–518.
Published: 01 October 2021
... languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from being destroyed by colonial officials or Inquisitional authorities, the original K’iche’ authors of the Popol Wuj had to embed their ways of knowing in a language and narrative...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 623–649.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Sergio Romero The textual sources of indigenous Christianities in Guatemala embody a complex articulation of native thought, European language ideologies, and the diachronic development of the Christianization of different areas of Mesoamerica. The evangelization of the K'iche' became a model...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 693–719.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos A major debate in the history of the Spanish conquest of Guatemala revolves around Tecum (Tecún Umán), the K'iche' captain who died in confrontation with Pedro de Alvarado, according to sixteenth-century indigenous texts. Analysis of these texts shows that Tecum's...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Nija’ib’ K’iche’ títulos and examples from other Highland Maya títulos, this article argues that the Highland Maya títulos served as instruments in negotiating power in the immediate community. As community records composed by indigenous scribes using the alphabet introduced by the colonizers, the títulos...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
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conquest, sociocultural world of the K’iche’ and Rab’inal Mayas. Some of
these metaphors of the body are more central to the narrative and occur
more frequently— and therefore are explained here in more detail—but
each of them contains intriguing levels of metaphor. The performative
nature of the drama...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... This article examines the question by focusing on Pedro de Alvarado, a leading member of Hernán Cortés’s contingent, who was known as Tonatiuh—a Nahuatl word that designated the sun, the day, and the sun god. Indigenous peoples in Mexico and Guatemala used the name during the invasion, and Nahua, K’iche...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 553–572.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., this zigzag pattern represents the bands
on the back of a snake, most especially the rattlesnake associated with rain,
lightning—which is also seen as a zigzag pattern—and thunder. It should
be recalled that Tojojil, Thunder/Lightning, was the patron daemon of the
K’iche’ as recorded by the Kaqchikel...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 April 2018
... untruthfulness among the Highland Maya (e.g., K’iche’ and Kaqchikel mich’ -, k’axtok’ - “deceive; lie,” Basseta 2005 : 150, 447, 368; Coto 1983 [1656]: 189; cf. Tzotzil jtasley-k’optay , jcha’lom k’optay “deceive with words or good appearances,” Laughlin 1988 : 690; Yucatec k’utstah “bamboozle; boast...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 667–688.
Published: 01 October 2019
... this to be too problematic and prefer to use bone surrogates rather than the bones themselves. K’iche’ Mayas, to this point, invoke the dead collectively when making ritual petitions. But though they do not outright fear bones, neither do they seek bones out as a first-line conduit of invocation when...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 723–724.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 726–728.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 728–730.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 730–732.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 732–735.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 735–738.
Published: 01 October 2001
... formulated in the 1890s by the Maya-K’iche’ elites of
the city of Quetzaltenango. Unlike Ladino (non-Indian) nationalism, which
regards the progress of the nation and indigenous ethnicity as mutually ex-
clusive, K’iche...
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