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Moving Beyond Protest in Tuareg Ichumar Musical Performance
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 633–655.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Susan Rasmussen This essay examines the origins and directions of ichumar (also called tichumaren in some regions), a genre of guitar music popular among young Tuaregs in Mali and Niger. Initially composed and performed by Tuareg nationalist/separatist rebels, it is now composed and performed...
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Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 844–846.
Published: 01 October 2004
..., and other colleagues actively curtailed
publication and teaching positions for Gower, who is now virtually for-
gotten. Gower’s early community study of Milocca, a Sicilian village, was
performed simultaneously with Robert Redfield’s Tepotzlan but was pub-
lished only in 1970. Lepowsky’s position...
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Nahuatl Theater. Volume 4, Nahua Christianity in Performance
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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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Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 212–213.
Published: 01 January 2005
... serve for classroom use if released in paperback.
Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Con-
temporary American Indian Community. By Jason Baird Jackson. (Lin-
coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx, 345 pp., illustrations, bibli-
ography, index. $75.00 cloth...
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Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 795–796.
Published: 01 October 2005
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allowed ample room for the voices of Navajo weavers.
Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity.
By Linda A. Curcio-Nagy. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2004. 222 pp., introduction, 14 half-tone illustrations, appendix, notes,
bibliography, index. $45.00...
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“For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 555–556.
Published: 01 October 2021
... effort to cultivate ties of alliance to Great Britain. Carrying the narrative through the upheavals of the Revolutionary War, Hart also offers a detailed and nuanced assessment of the role of Anglican religious performance in the establishment of post-Revolutionary Mohawk/Haudenosaunee diasporic...
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Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 October 2010
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Revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
doi 10.1215/00141801-2010-060
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Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the
Andes. By Krista E. Van Vleet. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xiv
+ 273...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 January 2005
.... Thinking Outside the Billiard Ball: Cognatic
Nationalism and Performing a Maori Public Sphere
Daniel Rosenblatt, Scripps College
Abstract. Over the course of the twentieth century, the marae plaza in New Zealand
(a ceremonial courtyard in front of a traditional carved meeting house) has become...
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Gendered Mobilities: Performing Masculinities in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mobile Fur Trade Community
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Amélie Allard Abstract Drawing from archaeological data collected from Réaume’s Leaf River Post (Minnesota) and fur traders’ journals, this article considers the ways in which mobility impacted the performance of masculine ideals within the colonial spaces of the western Great Lakes trading posts...
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A tiçitl performing tlaolchayahualiztli before a weeping man. Line drawing ...
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in “I Am Just a Tiçitl ”: Decolonizing Central Mexican Nahua Female Healers, 1535–1635
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Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1. A tiçitl performing tlaolchayahualiztli before a weeping man. Line drawing by author folio 78r of the Codex Magliabechiano
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Published: 01 April 2016
Figure 2. One of many large-scale pageants and performances staged at the fair, The Death of Custer featured Indians from the Joy Zone acting in stereotypically savage roles. Todd, Story of the Exposition , 3:142
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Parallel text alignment performed on the Canonical Text Services version of...
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Figure 3. Parallel text alignment performed on the Canonical Text Services version of Ximénez ( 1701–3 : 1r) using Scaife Viewer.
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 7. Codex Tudela, “Priest Performing Sacrifice.” Courtesy Museo de América.
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Geographic Mapping, Social Mapping: The Human Body in the Rab'inal Achi
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the time in which it was written and performed. An examination of the cultural symbolism of each of these body parts reveals that the Rab'inal Achi uses them to talk indirectly about territory, thereby producing a less risky discourse to resolve bellic conflicts. Furthermore, by drawing on performance...
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Literacy and Healing: Semiotic Ideologies and the Entextualization of Colonial Maya Medical Incantations
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 573–595.
Published: 01 July 2015
... as a detachable unit of text that can be lifted out of its interactional setting so that it may be successfully recontextualized in future performances. Deciding what signs are essential to convey in writing requires a judgment about what constitutes an effective performance of the text. Such a judgment is based...
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The Last Jeraeil of Gippsland: Rediscovering an Aboriginal Ceremonial Site
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 551–577.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Jason Gibson; Russell Mullet Abstract The Jeraeil, a young men’s initiation ceremony of the GunaiKurnai people of Gippsland, Australia, ceased to be performed toward the end of the nineteenth century. Eager to witness and document the ceremony, anthropologist A. W. Howitt arranged for a performance...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Amy M. Ware This brief examination of the early-twentieth-century United States expands academic interpretations of ethnic performance in the popular realm. The case of Will Rogers—Cherokee entertainer, writer, and political pundit—is particularly useful in understanding the representational...
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Space, Time, and Story Tracks: Contemporary Practices of Topographic Memory in the Palikur Territory of Arukwa, Amapá, Brazil
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 163–185.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of place-names. This article argues that the practice demonstrates a form of cartographic imagination that is based on a different theorization of the relationship between space and time. Contrasting the formal technology of cartography with the Palikur performative representations of “spatiotemporality...
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in Religious Sodalities of the Ixil Maya of Chajul, Guatemala: A Historical Perspective
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Published: 01 January 2025
Figure 2. Juan Asicona, departed b’aal martoma of the Cofradía del Rosario Vinaq . In the background: figure of the Virgin Mary in his male clothes ( cotón ) and Pedro Mendoza performing costumbre . Photograph by Monika Banach.
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Pocahontas at the Fair: Crafting Identities at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 July 2003
... inhabitants who greeted the Jamestown colonists, were at that time seeking ways to demonstrate that they still existed and to improve their conditions,having been marginalized over three centuries. This article explores the ways in which these performances of identity-construction were intertwined...
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