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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 301–327.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Puebla, Mexico: Descent, Inheritance, and the Nahua Tradition.” American Anthropologist 102 , no. 3 : 485 – 502 . Diccionario de autoridades 2001 3 vols . Madrid : Editorial Gredos . Doesburg Sebastián van 2001a Códices cuicatecos: Porfirio Díaz y Fernández Leal . Mexico...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Justyna Olko This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 349–400.
Published: 01 April 2003
... these competing “titles,”ostensibly written in the 1520s, to Spanish authorities in the 1690s. The titles present each community's account of the Spanish Conquest of Oaxaca and subsequent colonial events. We consider how the documents shed light on Mixtec and Nahua ethnic identity and historical memory...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., glossary, notes, bibliography, index, illustra-
tions, maps. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.)
Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico. By
Stephanie Wood. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii +
212 pp., preface, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, map. $34.95
cloth...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 October 2001
... answerable question of what it all meant, in the sixteenth century
and today.
Die Mayordomías in Tequila: Das Religiöse Ämtersystem Heutiger Nahua
in Mexiko. By Brigitte Hülsewiede. Institut für Völkerkunde der Albert...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 340–342.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Books.
DOI 10.1215/00141801-2008-078
The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua
Poetics. By Jongsoo Lee. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2008. xii + 282 pp., introduction, notes, glossary, index. $34.95 cloth.)
Susan Toby Evans, Pennsylvania State...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 415–444.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jonathan Truitt Using Spanish- and Nahuatl-language sources, this article examines the interaction of Nahua women in Mexico City with the Catholic Church. By examining Nahua women's role in colonial Christianity—their religiosity (as admired by European and indigenous chroniclers), responsibilities...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 786–787.
Published: 01 October 2013
...John F. Schwaller The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture. By Sigal Pete . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xvi + 361 pp., preface, illustrations, appendix, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index . $94.95 cloth, $25.95 paper...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 January 2012
...David Tavárez Nahuatl Theater. Volume 4, Nahua Christianity in Performance . Edited by Sell Barry D. Burkhart Louise M. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2009 . xvi + 405 pp., preface, acknowledgments, references, index . $ 49.95 cloth.) Copyright 2012 by American...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 743–746.
Published: 01 October 2011
..., bibliography, index . $65.00 cloth.) Indigenous Miracles: Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico . By Osowski Edward W. . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2010 . ix + 260 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, map, introduction, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $50.00...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Stephanie Schmidt Abstract This article considers questions of authorship in Juan Bautista Viseo’s “Second Sermon for Advent” about “frightful, and terrible signs” of Judgment Day. Although Bautista acknowledges important contributions by Nahua scholars in the production of his Nahuatl-language...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 103–123.
Published: 01 January 2021
.... In this article, the author argues that Chimalpahin’s modifications depict a Nahua version of the conquest in which the emphasis on the native’s active participation reflects its effect in the outcome of the war even though such contributions are often unseen in the most representative narratives of the event...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Lisa Sousa Abstract Nahua rulers, nobles, and warriors of the late postclassic and early colonial periods used feathers and elaborate feather costumes in a variety of political and sacred rituals. They acquired these prestige items through gift exchange, trade, conquest, and tribute. This article...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Allison Caplan Abstract Previous studies suggest that late postclassic and early colonial Nahua viewers understood specific artistic creations to contain tonalli , a solar-derived animating force. This article advances understanding of the animacy of Nahua featherworks by examining attention...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 53–79.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... This article examines the question by focusing on Pedro de Alvarado, a leading member of Hernán Cortés’s contingent, who was known as Tonatiuh—a Nahuatl word that designated the sun, the day, and the sun god. Indigenous peoples in Mexico and Guatemala used the name during the invasion, and Nahua, K’iche...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Chimalpahin’s retelling of the alleged plot and the fears of a Black uprising in colonial Mexico from an Indigenous perspective. At stake is how the plurivocal structure of the Nahua archive allows for the inscription of Blackness and racialized subjectivities in colonial Mexico while challenging the claims...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 87–112.
Published: 01 January 2024
... steeped in tensions around Indigeneity, religion, and parental rights. Drawing on newspapers and other colonial records, the article examines how different Nahua families responded, centering their concerns and expectations—of immunization and religious and public health officials—to reframe critical...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Julia Madajczak Abstract In the sixteenth century, Fray Diego Durán gave rise to a scholarly myth that the primary purpose of Nahua ritual baths was “purification.” This article deconstructs his interpretation, focusing on baths performed on deities’ impersonators ( ixiptla ), and particularly...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 441–463.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Edward Anthony Polanco Abstract Since the sixteenth century, Central Mexican tiçiyotl (Nahua healing knowledge) has been portrayed as a male-dominated system akin to Western medicine. This has made Nahua women invisible in broader discussions of tiçiyotl. Though the historiography acknowledges...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 688–689.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Young’s view that the Nahua kept themselves in a traditional holding pattern, maintaining a local identity, reproducing their culture as though there were no crisis. Van Young found 50–60 percent of independence insurgents were indigenous, but many central Mexican indigenous communities remained royalist...
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