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From Naked-Eye Astronomy to Races of Maize: Cultural Entanglements in Pre-Columbian Civilizations
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 421–428.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Patricia A. McAnany American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 From Naked-Eye Astronomy to Races
of Maize: Cultural Entanglements in
Pre-Columbian Civilizations
Patricia A. McAnany, Boston University
Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars. By
Susan Milbrath...
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The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Peter Benson The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside . By Fitting Elizabeth . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . 320 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $84.95 cloth, $23.95...
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The Wisconsin Oneida and the WPA: Stories of Corn, Colonialism, and Revitalization
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (3): 407–427.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Rebecca M. Webster Abstract Colonization efforts over time have changed Oneida relationships with corn drastically. This study examines that history through a collection of stories told by Oneida people for the Work Progress Administration (WPA) between 1938 and 1942. Furthermore, the people’s...
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Arikara woman drying corn on top of house, Fort Berthold, ca. 1920. Courtes...
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Figure 7. Arikara woman drying corn on top of house, Fort Berthold, ca. 1920. Courtesy of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, 10190-02656
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The Myth of Moccasin Bluff: Rethinking the Potawatomi Pattern
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (3): 373–406.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Jodie A. O'Gorman In a 1969 Ethnohistory article James Fitting and Charles Cleland developed an ethnographic model derived from the Potawatomi Pattern of large, semipermanent villages with an emphasis on corn agriculture to interpret earlier cultural adaptations within the Carolinian biotic...
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Land, Labor, and the Chilapa Market: A New Look at the 1840s' Peasant Wars in Central Guerrero
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 89–130.
Published: 01 January 2003
... enormous difficulties in supplying the urban market of Chilapa with basic resources,especially maize. The hostilities of the 1840s grew out of the efforts of elites to resolve these problems by establishing, among other things,commercial agricultural estates. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003...
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Coushatta Basketry and Identity Politics: The Role of Pine-Needle Baskets in the Federal Rerecognition of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 145–167.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Jay Precht Basketry made by Coushatta women served functional economic purposes such as winnowing, sifting, and storing corn even before European contact, and during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a non-Indian market for the baskets evolved, leading to shifts in both basket forms...
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Tlaloc Rites and the Huey Tozoztli Festival in the Mexican Codex Borbonicus
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Catherine R. DiCesare This study examines the unusual colonial Codex Borbonicus image of a pre-Columbian springtime festival known as Huey Tozoztli. It attends to the special prominence the Borbonicus gives to the rain god Tlaloc, a dedication at odds with more usual venerations to the maize...
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Going Back to Their Roots: Comanche Trade and Diet Revisited
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 237–271.
Published: 01 April 2016
... carbohydrates in the form of maize from Spanish-ruled New Mexico and Texas or Native American horticulturalists. This in turn is claimed to have been crucial in structuring Comanche economic and political ties with their neighbors. This article argues instead that the documentary evidence used to support...
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“I Am Just a Tiçitl ”: Decolonizing Central Mexican Nahua Female Healers, 1535–1635
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., hurled corn kernels, applied salubrious materials, and communicated with deities through entheogenic substances to keep their communities whole. Moreover, this article argues that scholarship must decolonize tiçiyotl in order to explore and understand its complexities. This can only be achieved by moving...
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Diagram of late twentieth-century Muscogee Creek ceremonial ground symbolis...
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in “I Have Been to the Country Above”: Indigenous Revitalizations in Late Sixteenth-Century Southeastern North America
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Published: 01 April 2025
Figure 9. Diagram of late twentieth-century Muscogee Creek ceremonial ground symbolism, with diagram of a Yuchi Green Corn ceremony closing dance pattern at bottom left. Drawing by Robert Easton, from Nabokov and Easton 1989 : 110. Courtesy of Peter Nabokov.
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“un pedaso de tiera de labor me dejo mi padresito . . . ” From the 1817 tes...
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in Cacicas , Escribanos , and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 6. “un pedaso de tiera de labor me dejo mi padresito . . . ” From the 1817 testament of Ascencia Pascuala, by escribano Juan Máximo Mexía. Agricultural land owned by the testator and left to heirs is nearly universally called tierra de labor , land for maize cultivation. This corresponds
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Sustenance and Health among the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Postremoval to Statehood
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 April 2015
... degrees of complexity and comfort. Affluent mixed-blood
natives had brought livestock with them across the removal trail and could
afford to build large homes and to cultivate commercial corn, wheat, and
cotton crops.7 Many increased their stock raising to sell to Fort Gibson and
to tribespeople...
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Milpa As an Ideological Weapon: Tourism and Maya Migration to Cancún
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 489–502.
Published: 01 July 2003
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tional tourist emporium. The tourist culture of Cancún embeds rules of production
and consumption radically different from those encapsulated in the milpa or corn-
field ideology that Maya experience in their communities. The study presents a dia...
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“A Wild Taste”: Food and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 389–414.
Published: 01 July 2010
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Coast) in which foodstuffs produced in the north (primarily wheat, corn,
and hogs) fed the denser population to the south. Her work, based on the
documentary record of production and distribution, emphasizes a fairly
conservative European agrarian diet. Meanwhile, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall...
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Remembering Nishu: Spatiality and Belonging in the Missouri River Bottomlands
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 215–246.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Figure 7. Arikara woman drying corn on top of house, Fort Berthold, ca. 1920. Courtesy of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, 10190-02656 ...
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“For My Necessities”: The Wills of Andean Commoners and Nobles in the Valley of Lima, 1596–1607
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 323–351.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Nacan Chestµ ducksµ beansµ maize→(W)
Cocssi (M) ¯he→(GD) Francisca Taclin · pots→(S) García Taco (h) ¸ lampas→(S)
Capan (F) House→(Si) ½¹ (lSi) Container of spindlesµ skein of cottonµ wool...
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Lakes, Canoes, and the Aquatic Communities of Xochimilco and Chalco, New Spain
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., and
they hired rowers to deliver maize to the alhóndiga and pósito (granary and
storehouse) in Mexico City. Founded in the late 1570s after food short-
ages, the alhóndiga was located by a canal Presumably, its location both
re¡ected and prolonged a reliance on canoes for the delivery...
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New and Old Social Movements Measuring Pisté, from the“ Mouth of the Well” to the 107th Municipio of Yucatán
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 611–642.
Published: 01 October 2003
... supply of three cenotes (water holes), as well as good soil for the
production of maize, it is likely that people lived on the present site
when Chichén Itzá was in its aboriginal glory. (Steggerda 1941: 1, 3...
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The Right to More Than a Cabbage Patch: Akimel O'odham Sacred Stories and the Form and Content of Petitions to the Federal Government, 1899–1912
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 January 2016
... York : Routledge . Radding Cynthia 1997 Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Rea Amadeo M. 1998 “Corn Man and Tobacco Woman in Pima Cosmology.” In Stars Above...
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