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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 587–612.
Published: 01 October 2001
... and mythologies about an ancient Edenic time before normal human procreation and marriage. The article also holds that the main influence on the content of mythologies was neighboring mythologies, such that each people's telling of ancientness was a parody, but a compassionate one, of its neighbors' tellings...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 47–80.
Published: 01 January 2005
... time into biographical time. It involves Dakoa's cult taking up Western notions of kingship and the Christian figures of God, Jesus, and Moses—all of whom are merged with the heroic structure of traditional myths. New mythological figures have emerged who encompass multiple identities and who resurface...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 303–328.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., such as water, mountains, or rain, which in Indigenous mythology and religion represented powerful entities with which people interacted continuously. These transcultural practices came into conflict with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic reform policies that aimed to “civilize” the local...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 April 2004
... in the field in the 1990s. The uprising, the doctrine of the charismatic shaman who fueled the movement, and the outcomes of the clash with the Argentine Army are described herein. The prophet's doctrine was rooted in a mythology of cosmic cataclysms. By following it, believers would be able to persuade...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 222–223.
Published: 01 April 2023
... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 In Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya , Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos identifies the central narratives of ancient Maya mythology and explores their various permutations across centuries. Extrapolating outward from the Classic Maya ceramic vessel record...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 715–717.
Published: 01 July 2002
... realities’’ (227) is often wide,
and good sense and critical inquiry are easily lost in the gulf.
The Return of the Savage
Louis S. Warren
As an effort to undermine a pernicious environmental mythology...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 717–719.
Published: 01 July 2002
... are easily lost in the gulf.
The Return of the Savage
Louis S. Warren
As an effort to undermine a pernicious environmental mythology that
threatens to turn Indians into nature—ripe for development—The Ecologi...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 719–721.
Published: 01 July 2002
... are easily lost in the gulf.
The Return of the Savage
Louis S. Warren
As an effort to undermine a pernicious environmental mythology that
threatens to turn Indians into nature—ripe for development—The Ecologi...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 179–184.
Published: 01 January 2019
... a mythological divide between “pure” traditional societies living in the past and “fragmented” Indigenous remnants not competent to handle modernity. Simmons’s hope for CIC was to reveal the divide’s mythological status and demolish its authority. He put into practice what he later articulated in “Culture Theory...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 728–729.
Published: 01 October 2003
... of earlier
6999 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:4 / sheet 146 of ethnographers A. L. Kroeber, George Dorsey, and Inez Hilger. Skillfully
drawing together information about mythology, ritual, art, and language,
he argues that in prereservation times personhood...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
... . John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, trans. Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 1. London: Harper and Row and Jonathan Cape. 1973 [1966] From Honey to Ashes . John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, trans. Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 2. New York: Harper and Row. 1978 [1968...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 693–719.
Published: 01 October 2013
... and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Bode Barbara 1961 The Dance of the Conquest of Guatemala . In The Native Theatre in Middle America . Pp. 204 – 92 . Middle American Research Institute Publication no. 27 . New Orleans, LA : Tulane...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 41–68.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians . New York: Johnson Reprint. 1970b [1916] Tsimshian Mythology . New York: Johnson Reprint. 1974 [1895] Indian Legends of the North Pacific Coast of America . Unpublished manuscript, translated by Dietrich Bertz for the British Columbia...
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Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 547–550.
Published: 01 July 2001
... as the Taínos. He has published extensively on Taíno
Book Reviews
mythology, cosmology, and art. Readers will find in Pané’s work the com-
pelling details about Taíno myths, religion, language, daily life, and re-
sistance to Spanish colonization...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 263–291.
Published: 01 April 2011
... continuity.
Huichol Mythological Origins
The Huichols say they “originated in the south; as they wandered north-
ward, they got lost under the earth, but reappeared in the country of the
hikuli; that is the central mesa of Mexico to the east of their present home”
(Lumholtz 1902: 2:23). Most...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 709–739.
Published: 01 October 2010
.... Anthropological Linguistics 50 : 90 –112. 2009 Composition and Artistry in a Classical Yucatecan Maya Creation Myth: Prehispanic Ritual Narratives and Their Colonial Transmission. In The Maya and Their Sacred Narratives: Text and Context of Maya Mythologies . Geneviève Le Fort, Raphaël Gardiol...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 379–400.
Published: 01 July 2017
...; DeMallie 1984 : 339; Standing Bear 2006b : 70; Walker 1917 : 181–82). In other words, human society was the model, and nonhuman collectives epitomized the typical Lakota collective. Mythology illuminates the animist, relational foundations of Lakota life and worldview. The literature suggests...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 445–468.
Published: 01 July 2015
... . Mérida : Ediciones Cordemex . Bierhorst John , trans. 1992 History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Boone Elizabeth Hill 2005 In Tlamatinime: The Wise Men and Women of Aztec Mexico . In Painted Books and Indigenous...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 227–240.
Published: 01 January 2000
... a cannibal.
Notions of sharp discontinuities between the past and the present
abound in Melanesian folklore and mythology. Peter Lawrence (1964: 239)
in his classic Road Belong Cargo posited that this sort of episodic thinking...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 January 2019
... this structure to emphasize the overlapping ritual functions between the private and public sectors. Morán’s second objective is to analyze the role of food rituals in the Aztec cosmovision and creation mythologies, and areas in which these cultural notions of food persist after the conquest. Whereas...
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