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in Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 1. Past reconstructions of the Ch’orti’ linguistic frontier in western Honduras.
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in Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 5. Revised linguistic map of western Honduras.
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 417–438.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Juan Luis Rodriguez This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 541–570.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., linguistic, archaeological, and genetic data supports recent linguistic and archaeological inquiries into protohistoric Kiowa origins suggesting a presence, if not migration, of Kiowa speakers along the western Rocky Mountains from the Colorado Plateau to the northwestern plains. Scholars are beginning...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 1. Past reconstructions of the Ch’orti’ linguistic frontier in western Honduras. ...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 465–490.
Published: 01 July 2008
... task in culture history is to classify native so-called tribes into cultural and/or linguistic categories, to list defining cultural traits, and to show how these “tribes” have persisted, disappeared, or become acculturated. The essential task in social history is to reconstruct the structure...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., this article analyzes how these individuals served as more than just intermediaries between each cultural space. It suggests that mestizos and mulatos were much more prominent cultural actors than has generally been assumed. Their linguistic and cultural fluency helped shaped many aspects of New Spain's...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 333–369.
Published: 01 April 2005
... one of a number of tribes that spoke Catawban, and that the Catawba were an equal and integral part of a linguistic community rather than a subject people. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Adair, James 1930 [1775] Adair's History of the American Indians . Samuel Cole Williams, ed...
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Uncertain Counts: The Struggle to Enumerate First Nations in Canada and the United States, 1870–1911
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 729–750.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Benjamin Hoy Throughout the nineteenth century, Canada and the United States struggled to gain accurate demographic data on the First Nations and Métis communities they claimed to oversee. Enumerators grappled with linguistic and cultural differences, distrust, the ambiguity of racial categories...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 651–674.
Published: 01 July 2015
... the New Philology and on recent trends in missionary linguistics, this article explores the distinctive characteristics of alphabetic writing, which was a potent force in reshaping Maya communicative practices. I argue that the flexibility, portability, and universal applicability of the graphic alphabet...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 263–291.
Published: 01 April 2011
... by the majority of ethnoscientific and linguistic studies. This article illustrates the value of adhering to the scholarly method of reliance upon weighted evidence in order to achieve congruent results between multiple types of research data. Copyright 2011 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2011...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 79–107.
Published: 01 January 2012
... and economic interests of European colonizers since 1492. Beginning with the first voyages of Columbus, the Carib were portrayed as warlike cannibals who raided the “peaceful” natives of the Greater Antilles. Carib-French contacts in the seventeenth century recorded origin myths and linguistic evidence...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 April 2007
... to the idea that linguistic relatedness is a conduit for the transmission of culture across all speakers and through time. What is problematic is that the classification of South American peoples on the basis of language was a product of European exploration. When the documents are read for what they tell us...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 407–443.
Published: 01 July 2007
...) reflected an understanding of the power and danger of the encounter that the actual experience confirmed. In this, it reminds us that there are several layers of interpretation—linguistic, religious, and ideological—that need to be taken into account when assessing these encounters. Also by incorporating...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 509–546.
Published: 01 July 2007
... that a real Indian subject lies behind these texts in any straightforward sense. To make this argument, I draw on linguistic anthropology and critical theory, analyzing firsthand accounts, newspaper reports, and descriptions of Indian speech and Nez Perce history. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and linguistic context of this belief among the contact-period Nahuas: the import of tetzahuitl (omens) in the animistic worldview of the Aztecs, as well as the characteristic semantic pair in tecolotl, in chiquatli (“the owl, the barn owl”) to signify the lethal activities of the most representative messengers...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 223–232.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of their homeland mid-17 th century through European-allied struggles with the English-connected Haudenosaunee ‘they extend a house,’ known to English and French then as the Iroquois. The translation into English and linguistic analysis are my own, based on what I have learned about the language for over 45 years...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 243–263.
Published: 01 July 2022
... was initially maintained due to linguistic ability, religious adherence, and the creation of popular cultural institutions, it was ultimately undermined, not only by the general forces of acculturation, but also by specifically Welsh factors. While the Welsh experience in Johnstown differed sharply from...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 275–300.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., alternatively fought and aligned with neighboring groups, and resisted the advance of colonial settlers. However, little is known about the remote past of these resilient peoples, who became mounted foragers in the early 1600s. A careful review of historical, ethnographic, and linguistic records on Tobas around...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 353–384.
Published: 01 April 2019
... from the Tseshaht First Nation. His eldest son, Alex Thomas, sold these drawings to linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir, who was at the time in charge of the anthropology division of the Geological Survey of Canada. The drawings depict critically important cultural information about ceremonial...
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