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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Santiago J. Molina Book Reviews 193
Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America.
Edited by Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo, and Ricardo
Ventura Santos. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. xii...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 525–552.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., the rise of the institution of debt servitude, affecting both indigenous Yucatec Mayan and working-class mestizo populations, and the rise of encompassing political rhetorics of order, progress, and nation building among Porfirian government officials and pueblo-level landowning gentry. El pueblo both...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 371–379.
Published: 01 October 2022
... consider Spanish-authored sources, they nonetheless center attention on the Indigenous subjects and the dynamics created between them and colonial officials. The articles included herein provide a vista on education not only for Natives but also for Mestizos (people of Spanish and Indigenous descent...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 663–667.
Published: 01 July 2004
... for centuries. Unlike the writings of scores of other sixteenth-century
Spanish, Creole, mestizo, and Amerindian authors whose treatises on the
natural wonders of the Indies and the past of local indigenous peoples
commanded little attention until recently, Acosta’s History was immedi-
ately translated...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 October 2012
... it helped further their interests in a society divided between two cultural spheres, Hispanic and indigenous. This article highlights the unique position of sixteenth-century mestizos and mulatos as bearers of indigenous culture and language in colonial Mexico. These individuals born of mixed unions were...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 381–400.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Bradley Benton Abstract Children with one Spanish and one Indigenous parent (called mestizos in subsequent generations), particularly from the lower levels of society, were viewed as problematic in the first decades of Spanish rule in New Spain. By the 1550s, colegios had been established to house...
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Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 269–290.
Published: 01 April 2021
... their behavior. When Spanish writers assigned a racial category to the Miskitu, the context of the encounter often shaped perceived racial origin. When Miskitu-Spanish relations were hostile, Spaniards more often chose the racial label sambo . During times of peace, indio was more common, and mestizo...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 263–289.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Michael D. Hill This paper examines the religiously syncretic and culturally hybrid phenomenon of New Age spirituality among urban mestizos in the Cusco region of Peru, primarily through ethnographic analysis of the Urubamba-based Intic Churincuna (Children of the Sun) religious group, along...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 497–518.
Published: 01 July 2016
... narratives functioned as ongoing strategies for reinforcing indigenous peoples’ alterity within the Ecuadorian nation. Specifically, white-mestizo elites discursively framed these crises as historical breaks that necessitated new visions of the country’s future. Rather than bring histories of racial...
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Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1911-1933
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 553–578.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., he resisted self-identifying as Maya, which would have compromised his hard-won mestizo status. His rise culminated in the governorship in 1930. White enemies' attacks on García Correa's Maya background helped undo his administration, although his influence over postrevolutionary politics endured...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 689–714.
Published: 01 October 2006
...-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of “Guaranization” that has influenced scholars as much as—if not more than—the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical analysis of the Chiriguano political system, we attempt to recover the Arawakan heritage of this truly mestizo society...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 397–398.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to a rapidly changing social environment. Indeed, the author emphasizes that géneros formed through a complex “recursive process” (50). Colonial subjects produced popular stereotypes, such as the mestizo or mulato vagabond; the crown responded with legislation designed to identify and keep these groups under...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., she argues, both Japanese and mestizo Bolivians engage in a form of racial masquerade, but they do so for different reasons: “If mestizo musicians might be seen as playing indian in the name of a Bolivian national project, the Japanese might be seen as playing indian as they long for a traditional...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 509–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., and mestizo
power seekers forged modern Mexico. Across the border, Richard Adams
(1956: 888, 893–97) proposed stages by which Maya Indians acculturated
into Guatemalan Ladino society, later reformulated as a co-evolutionary
process instead of a linear progression (Adams 1994: 531). His subsequent...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 503–508.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Fischer, Edward F., and R. McKenna Brown, eds. 1996 Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala . Austin: University of Texas Press. Gabbert, Wolfgang 2004 Ethnicity and Social Inequality...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 39–60.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of refuge,” their local identi-
ties prevented broad coalitions.3 This fact helped to secure their survival
but simultaneously limited their responses. Third, the Huichol selectively
adapted elements of nineteenth-century mestizo society, a fact particularly
evident when they reached out...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 435–444.
Published: 01 April 2004
...). Some swap terms like ‘‘Maya ‘‘indigenous or ‘‘ethnic’’
with such socioeconomic designations as ‘‘peasant’’ (or ‘‘campesino and
‘‘rural proletarian Others use ‘‘the term ‘Maya Indians’ irrespective of the
fact that it is an obsolete colonial invention’’ (24) or accept mestizo’ as
the self...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 January 2004
... in central Mexico,
Veracruz, and Oaxaca.
All of the essays faithfully address the issue of modernization in the
region, especially that resulting from economic forces, and its impact on
rural peoples, both indigenous and mestizo. With only a couple of excep-
tions, the essays are strongly...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 45–64.
Published: 01 January 2023
... in 1786 in the home of an Indigenous man named Gabriel de la Cruz. Bautista had been staying in the home of “the Indian” while curing a woman, perhaps the wife of de la Cruz, in the town of Machala on the southern coast of Ecuador. He also attempted to heal a Mestizo man from Santa Rosa, a town south...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 649–653.
Published: 01 July 2004
... for centuries. Unlike the writings of scores of other sixteenth-century
Spanish, Creole, mestizo, and Amerindian authors whose treatises on the
natural wonders of the Indies and the past of local indigenous peoples
commanded little attention until recently, Acosta’s History was immedi-
ately translated...
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