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Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Maria C. Bruno [email protected] Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World . By Stephenson Marcia . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2023 . xiii + 448 pp., illustrations, map, index. $45.00 paperback. Copyright 2025 by American Society...
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Arqueología, antropología e historia en los Andes: Homenaje a María Rostworowski
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 821–823.
Published: 01 October 2000
... in the Andes has likewise been mis-
interpreted and misunderstood. This article is mainly a useful abstract of
Bonavia’s monumental work on the American camelids, with emphasis on
understanding that the llama is a creature of the Andean slopes, not solely
of the upper altitudes.
A number of essays...
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A Network Analysis of Inka Roads, Administrative Centers, and Storage Facilities
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 655–687.
Published: 01 October 2001
... kilometers by llama caravan to Cuzco
(Wachtel 1982). To accommodate the goods transported to regional centers
required the construction of storage complexes and administrative facili-
ties to govern them (Morris 1967). Hatun Xuaxa...
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“Heran Todos Putos”: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 35–67.
Published: 01 January 2007
.... 9: “Se fue con el al dicho temascal y este testigo
[Cuyne] entro del primero y se le echo al suelo para dormir y luego el dicho
yndio que era preso [Pedro Quini] que no save como se llama se llego a este
testigo y le comenzo a abrasar y a besar y le metio la mano que abia puesta en...
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Mobility and Disdain: Columbus and Cannibals in the Land of Cotton
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Dreyfus 1992 and William C. Sturtevant 1992.
Mobility and Disdain 11
3 “Y dizean q la isla de bohio era mayor q la juana a q llamã Cuba y q no esta
çercada de agua y paraçe dar a entender ser trra firme qs aqui detras desta espa-
ñola a q...
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Two Khipu, One Narrative: Answering Urton's Questions
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 453–468.
Published: 01 April 2000
... by parcialidades] (45). He also
tells us ‘‘que fueron dos parcialidades, que la una se llama Anancuzco y la
otra Urincuzco’’ [there were two parcialidades, one of them is called Anan-
cuzco and the other Urincuzco] (ibid.: 40...
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Numeral Graphic Pluralism in the Colonial Andes
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 135–164.
Published: 01 January 2010
... 139
to signify values in a decimal-place system of numeration (see Urton 2003).
Although colonial Spaniards suggest that khipus also recorded nominal sig-
nifiers linked to the numerals, producing noun-adjective constructions such
as “10 llamas,” we today (as was true of the colonial Spaniards...
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Paradoxes of Belief as Perceived in the Uses of Creer , Creencia , and Criyincia in the Northern Bolivian Highlands
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., in Chapter 29 of the manuscript
Huarochiri, is camac, that is to say the force that animates, according
to Garcilaso. (Taylor 1974: 233–34, quoted in Duviols 1978: 138; my
translation)
In chapter 29 of the Huarochirí Manuscript, the word camay corresponds
to a llama-shaped...
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From People to Place and Back Again: Back Translation as Decentering—an Andean Case Study
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 355–381.
Published: 01 April 2006
... sacrifices of llama and guinea
pig blood, corn beer, white and dark corn, and animal fat (sebo)toward
off illness and guarantee the fertility of themselves and their animals and
fields. By the seventeenth century, many ayllus had specialists dedicated to
his cult. Some of these specialists also served one...
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The Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
Published: 01 July 2002
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pillco llama. To the fiery sacrifice during Capac Raimi were added golden
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and silver figurines of camelids—presumably conopas —that the chroni-
cler...
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Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... According to a document from 1573, Lucas Froix, the priest assigned to the ecclesiastical partido of Zambizambique, an area that included the Sensenti and Cucuyagua valleys, said that he spoke “Mejicano y Popoluca que por otro nombre se llama Chontal” (Mejicano [Nahuatl] and Popoluca otherwise known...
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Adaptive Strategies during Times of Conflict and Transformation: Copiapó Valley under the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 127–148.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the pucara’s stored resources, including some llamas and gold. Despite this defeat, the people of Copiapó kept fighting. One of Valdivia’s soldiers, Diego Sánchez, testified that the governor could never bring peace to Copiapó valley, and that the local Indians killed two Spaniards and many Peruvian Indians...
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The Lives and Deaths of Caged Birds: Transatlantic Voyages of Wild Creatures from the Americas to Spain, 1740s–1790s
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 481–501.
Published: 01 July 2020
... February 1770. Guanacos are related to the llama. 23 AGI, Indiferente General 1549, G-392-6 (pdf), n.p., no. 297, 6 February 1770. 24 AGI, Indiferente General 1549, G-392-6 (pdf), n.p., no. 297, 6 February 1770. 25 AGI, Indiferente General 1549, G-392-11, n.p., no. 768, 19 January 1777...
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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 351–380.
Published: 01 April 2016
... sitio donde su Magestad Filipo II fundó el monesterio de San Lorenço; tuvo este nombre a esta causa, porque otro pago cercano se llama la herreria, de do se sacaria el escoria” (I do not know if this is why the site on which His Majesty Philip II founded the monastery of Saint Lorenzo took such a name...
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Khipu Transcription Typologies: A Corpus-Based Study of the Textos Andinos
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
... preguntados que a cómo valía. la carga de chuño. el dicho año. en Potosý. dixeron. que a seis pesos corrientes.” 28 Lines 38–43. Memoria 40: “Vn pueblo que se dize Acaluo con el prinçipal Gualca treinta y ocho yndios y en otro que se llama Berenguela diez y ocho yndios y en otro que se dize Millme...
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Calendars in Knotted Cords: New Evidence on How Khipus Captured Time in Nineteenth-Century Cuzco and Beyond
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of Cuzco for recording sins during confession in the 1950s (Harrison 2002 : 281). On the method of dividing a single category (“llamas”) into classes and subclasses (i.e., “males,” “females,” “females with young,” etc.), see Castro 2013 ; and Mackey 1970 : 51; 2002 : 322–25. 34 This set...
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A New Look at Q'enqo as a Model of Inka Visual Representation, Reproduction, and Spatial Structure
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 597–630.
Published: 01 July 2012
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that entailed numerous major activities and minor, more private ones, such
as washing away the mourning and sacricing sheep (most likely llamas or
alpacas) throughout the city in places where Pachakuti had spent time (136–
37). Some of the sacrices may well have been performed at private loca-
tions...
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Myth, Globalization, and Mestizaje in New Age Andean Religion: The Intic Churincuna (Children of the Sun) of Urubamba, Peru
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 263–289.
Published: 01 April 2010
... nacimientos, the figurines had distinctly Andean physical fea-
tures and dress or were accompanied by herds of llama or alpaca. In other naci-
mientos, a building with the acronym for Peru’s national police (PNP) curiously
appeared, or a batallion of Peruvian soldiers was portrayed...
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Kandire in Real Time and Space: Sixteenth-Century Expeditions from the Pantanal to the Andes
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 April 2007
... (Nordenskiöld 1917: 114).
The large body of water mentioned may have been Lake Titicaca. The
large birds that picked prisoners apart were condors. The deerlike animals
were llamas. In the region near Santa Cruz was the Inca site of Samaypata.
Along the same route was another site, Incallacta...
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Becoming Saraguro: Ethnogenesis in the Context of Inca and Spanish Colonialism
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 287–319.
Published: 01 April 2008
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herded llamas and alpacas, which was their typical labor assignment when
resettled by the Incas (Murra 1980 [1955]: 156). One document reportedly
claims that some of the people in Saraguro were soldiers in the Inca army
(Belote and Belote 1994: 11–12).
Thus, prior to the arrival...
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