...Philip A. Dennis American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Review Essay Patriarchy and Inequality, Festival and Pilgrimage in Hispanic Nicaragua Philip A. Dennis, Texas Tech University Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua. By Elizabeth Dore. (Durham, NC: Duke...

... preplanned construction of Chacoan towns in the open—away from cliffs, walls, caverns, and pinnacles—further emphasizes their human-defined shapes as D or O quadrants linked by roads, beacons, and pilgrimages. After a long“engendering” developmenxt during the Archaic period, these priesthoods became...

... devotions (63). For this reviewer, the biggest surprise is Taylor’s deduction that long-distance pilgrimage was quite rare (502). Most scholars, and, I would wager, most Mexican Catholics, assume that the popular pilgrimage devotions today represent an extension of colonial practices. However, Taylor argues...

....) Inca Myths. By Gary Urton. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 80 pp., maps, figures, suggestions for further reading, index. $12.95 paper.) Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon...

... veneration of saints. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2023 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2023 Chiloé Caguach Huilliche pilgrimage Jesuits The Chiloé Archipelago ( fig. 1 ), located a thousand kilometers south...

... of the celebrations held every twenty days. . . . The purpose of this feast was that of asking for a good year, since all the maize which had been sown had now sprouted.” And it was a marvelous celebration indeed, an unparal- leled royal pilgrimage to the distant temple of Tlaloc at Mt. Tlaloc. Mote- cuhzoma II...

... of travel and pilgrimage to Yucatec Maya spirituality, Solari argues that space itself played a cartographic-like role for Mayas. In addition to arguing that Mayas closely linked space and human action, Solari asserts that their spaces created and contain histori- cal narratives she terms “spatial...

... materials. Just as the manuscript has inspired a pilgrimage of sorts to the museum, this text reflects the diversity of research approaches that such a document incites. Collectively the chapters in the book demonstrate the benefit of viewing a manuscript from multiple perspectives. The book begins...

... converted to Catholicism in the early seventeenth century and remained adherents even after the British takeover. Chapter 4 describes the annual Saint Anne’s Day events on Maligomish that brings Mi’kmaq families on a pilgrimage to venerate this Catholic saint. Throughout their four-hundred-year involvement...

... to becoming a prophet and then his gradual moves toward Christianity. Pointer argues Papunhank’s first recorded statement in 1760 reveals that his “pilgrimage” involved “mostly indigenous spiritual practices and methods” (51). Papunhank’s journey began with a vision, which led him to gain renown as a prophet...

... (metonomies and indexes, principally) used to give sense to objects and people in distinct ceremonial contexts. The study of public rituals in Santa Teresa presented by Coyle is com- prehensive, though pilgrimages to neighboring towns, domestic rituals, and healing and funerary rituals as well...

... relate to current beliefs in the black Christ of Tila, a pilgrimage town in the Ch’ol region. The three chapters in Part 3 that close out the book trace linkages between pre-Columbian beliefs and those of today. These essays provide an overview of ancient creator deities (KBS, NAH), ancient...

... the negative impact of the outcome of don Carlos Ometochtli’s trial on Tlaloc’s worship, ritual pilgrimages to Mount Tlaloc continue today. The importance of Mesoamerican landscape continues in Ángel Julián García Zambrano’s chapter discussing its impact on establishing and framing memories of communal...

... blends ethnographic and archival research to illustrate how despite the negative impact of the outcome of don Carlos Ometochtli’s trial on Tlaloc’s worship, ritual pilgrimages to Mount Tlaloc continue today. The importance of Mesoamerican landscape continues in Ángel Julián García Zambrano’s...

... supplements, a narrator-redactor presents the rites, customs, and ancestral stories about several deities and large non-Inca descent groups who in Inca times invaded down to the Pacific as far as the mighty pilgrimage center of Pachacámac. Those mythohistories form the armature, but the text is almost...

... sense to objects and people in distinct ceremonial contexts. The study of public rituals in Santa Teresa presented by Coyle is com- prehensive, though pilgrimages to neighboring towns, domestic rituals, and healing and funerary rituals as well as esoteric and personal rituals are left out...

... History of the Native Peoples of the Americas . Adams Richard E. W. , ed. Pp. 136 – 86 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Weaver Jace Weaver Laura Adams 2007 Indigenous Migrations, Pilgrimage Trails, and Sacred Geography: Foregrounds and Backgrounds to the Mapa de...

... See Dobyns, “Do-​It-​Yourself Religion,” in Pilgrimage in Latin America, ed. N. Ross Crumrine and E. Alan Morinis (New York, 1991), 53–70. 7 See Cornell-​Peru Web site: instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/vicosperu/vicos-​site/ cornellperu_page_1.htm (accessed 7 February 2010...

...; in return, they received natural forms of sustenance.4 The miraculous event, therefore, refashioned Tabí as a Christian pilgrimage center. Through the middle decades of the seventeenth century, the exist- The Birth of the Virgin with Saint Michael Mural at Tabí 717 Figure 2. Church...

... 1989: 135, 1992a: 111–19), and her description of the sequence of these pilgrimages, with Gaar, the senior phratry, being the first, is correct. What she fails to men- tion is that to trigger the whole chain of events, a heifer must be given by 324...