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Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain

Jacqueline Holler
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 150–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8702432
Published: 01 January 2021
...Jacqueline Holler Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain . By Martin Austin Nesvig . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2018 . xxii +252 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, index. $45.00 hardcover.) Copyright 2021 by American Society...
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Spanish Men, Indigenous Language, and Informal Interpreters in Postcontact Mexico

Martin Nesvig
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 739–764.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642734
Published: 01 October 2012
...Martin Nesvig In the 1570s the alcalde of Motines (located in the coastal mountains of modern day Michoacán) was denounced to the Inquisition for having told the indigenous residents that they did not need to spend money decorating their churches and for engaging in other heresies, including...
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Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800

Martin Nesvig
Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 549–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4174440
Published: 01 October 2017
...Martin Nesvig Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800 . By Villella Peter B. . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . xvii+346 pp., figures, works cited, index . $120.00 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017...
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From Sodomy to Superstition: The Active Pathic and Bodily Transgressions in New Spain

Laura A. Lewis
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-041
Published: 01 January 2007
..., and the anonymous reviewers for Ethnohistory for theirs. 1 Sodomy generally referred to male-male anal penetration, though it could also refer to anal intercourse between a man and a woman, fellatio, and bestiality; Martin Nesvig, “The Complicated Terrain of Latin American Homosexu...
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A Banned Sixteenth-Century Biblical Text in Nahuatl: The Proverbs of Solomon

David Tavárez
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 759–762.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2313912
Published: 01 October 2013
... of Solomon into an indigenous language by the Franciscan fray Luis Rodrí- guez that had circulated in manuscript form. This decision followed a growing concern in Spain with controlling (and, eventually, banning) easy access to the Scriptures in vernacular languages. As Martin Nesvig has noted, Molina...
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Introduction: How Did They Talk to One Another? Language Use and Communication in Multilingual New Spain

Yanna Yannakakis
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 667–674.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642698
Published: 01 October 2012
... as in Mark Z. Christensen’s essay, “The Use of Nahuatl in Evangelization and the New World Ministry of Sebastian,” which analyzes Nahuatl-­language Christian texts written for purposes of evangelization. Martin Nesvig’s essay, “Spanish Men, Indige- nous Language, and Informal Interpreters...
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“Heran Todos Putos”: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico

Zeb Tortorici
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 35–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-039
Published: 01 January 2007
... hombre y muger—“as if they were man and woman”—model of understanding sexual acts between men. Martin Nesvig, in his historiographical essay “The Complicated Ter- rain of Latin American Homosexuality” (2001), discusses the evolution of the treatment of Latin American “homosexuality...
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Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica

Anderson Hagler
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 153–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8702450
Published: 01 January 2021
... are grouped thematically into two sections, with the first foregrounding seduction and the second emphasizing substance. In the first section, Martin Nesvig considers how the meaning ascribed to hallucinogens such as peyote, teonanacatl , and ololiuqui changed over time, eventually leading...
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Archival Epistemology: Honor, Sodomy, and Indians in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

Anderson Hagler
Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 515–535.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7517922
Published: 01 July 2019
..., roll 6, frame 573. 9 SANM, 353, MF 450, roll 6, frame 702. 8 SANM, 353, MF 450, roll 6, frame 565. 7 SANM, 353, MF 450, roll 6, frame 564. 6 Martin Nesvig states that “virtually no scholarship on homosexuality” exists for Latin America from ca. 1700 to ca. 1870 (2001: 710...
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Accessing the Divine: Indigenous Medical Specialists, Catholic Priests, and Nonorthodox Methods of Healing in Colonial Mexico

Anderson Hagler
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 27–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10887989
Published: 01 January 2024
... and fellowship operated as a form of social discipline. The physical separation between the excommunicated and the devout protected the Christian community from sin, fostering the growth of virtue (Nesvig 2001 ). Announced in Edicts of Faith, excommunication impelled pious commoners to denounce the crimes...
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The Baller and the Court: Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Battle with Ololiuhqui and His Courtship of the Mexican Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

Edward Anthony Polanco
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 195–225.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10999165
Published: 01 April 2024
... in 1631—surely remembered Ruiz de Alarcón’s earlier vexatious attempts to become an inquisitorial functionary (Nesvig 2009 : 275). Ruiz de Alarcón went on to highlight the endemic usage of ololiuhqui by Nahua people and other ethnic groups as well. He noted that the use of ololiuhqui was very popular...
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The Use of Nahuatl in Evangelization and the Ministry of Sebastian

Mark Z. Christensen
Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 691–711.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642716
Published: 01 October 2012
..., “Razon de la obra al lector,” 166. 16 Fray Manuel Pérez, Farol indiano y guía de curas de indios (Mexico City, 1713), repr. in Hernández de León-­Portilla, Obras clásicas sobre la lengua Náhuatl, 8–9. 17 See Tavárez, “Naming the Trinity,” 28; Martin Nesvig, Ideology and Inquisition...
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Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest

Paja Faudree
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 597–621.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890260
Published: 01 July 2015
.... These include the afore- mentioned 2012 special issue. Though it does not focus on mechanisms of translation, several articles discuss translators at length and some con- sider language ideologies undergirding translation choices (J. Schwaller 2012; Matthew and Romero 2012; Nesvig 2012; R. Schwaller 2012...
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Language, Catechisms, and Mesoamerican Lords in Highland Guatemala: Addressing “God” After the Spanish Conquest

Sergio Romero
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 623–649.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2890273
Published: 01 July 2015
... 1992; Nesvig 2012). Nevertheless, as the Spanish moved south, they encountered native societies where knowledge of Nahuatl was less common. When they crossed into the highlands of Guatemala, Nahuatl was no longer a lingua franca. Few Maya seemed to know it, and the Kaqchikel and K’iche...
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Diasporic Convergences: Tracing Knowledge Production and Transmission among Enslaved Chinos in New Spain

Diego Javier Luis
Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 291–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8801894
Published: 01 April 2021
... Latin American Review 14 , no. 2 : 299 – 321 . Villa-Flores Javier . 2006 . “ Voices from a Living Hell: Slavery, Death, and Salvation in a Mexican Obraje .” In Local Religion in Colonial Mexico , edited by Nesvig Martin Austin , 235 – 56 . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico...
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A History of the Khipu Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America

Sarahh Scher
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 125–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816274
Published: 01 January 2013
...: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010); and two edited collections, Martin Austin Nesvig, ed., Local Religion in Colo- nial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006); and Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds...
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Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas

W. George Lovell
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 128–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816283
Published: 01 January 2013
...); and two edited collections, Martin Austin Nesvig, ed., Local Religion in Colo- nial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006); and Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.,Religion in New Spain (Albuquerque: Univer- sity of New Mexico Press, 2007). 2 Barry D. Sell, Louise M...
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Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader

Cynthia Radding
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 130–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816292
Published: 01 January 2013
...); and two edited collections, Martin Austin Nesvig, ed., Local Religion in Colo- nial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006); and Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.,Religion in New Spain (Albuquerque: Univer- sity of New Mexico Press, 2007). 2 Barry D. Sell, Louise M...
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Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present

Robert C. Schwaller
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 132–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642896
Published: 01 January 2013
...); and two edited collections, Martin Austin Nesvig, ed., Local Religion in Colo- nial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006); and Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.,Religion in New Spain (Albuquerque: Univer- sity of New Mexico Press, 2007). 2 Barry D. Sell, Louise M...
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2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

Matthew Redinger
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 133–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1816310
Published: 01 January 2013
...); and two edited collections, Martin Austin Nesvig, ed., Local Religion in Colo- nial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006); and Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole, eds.,Religion in New Spain (Albuquerque: Univer- sity of New Mexico Press, 2007). 2 Barry D. Sell, Louise M...
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