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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 271–273.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of 281 both dilemmas squarely into focus and shows that no one—from Conser-
vative elites to Sandinista cadre, from solidary analysts to the community
members themselves—has escaped their effects.
Small Sacrifices: Religious...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 630–632.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Christine A. Kray Competitive Spirits: Latin America's New Religious Economy. By R. Andrew Chesnut. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. vi + 189 pp., introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 cloth.) 2006 Book Reviews
Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 334–336.
Published: 01 April 2010
... rejects the notion common in
older histories that the Lakotas “perverted” Wovoka’s peaceful doctrine
into one of war. Andersson argues that the religion resonated with many
Lakotas because it once again brought religious practice into the open and
because its syncretic nature gave some...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 754–756.
Published: 01 October 2011
...Sabine Hyland Of Summits and Sacriflce: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices . By Besom Thomas . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2009 . xii + 230 pp., prologue, maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index . $60.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 241–270.
Published: 01 April 2017
... the Popol Vuh within its historical and physical ecclesiastic context, recovering Friar Ximénez’s voice within his manuscript. It is argued that his work was first and foremost intended to be a religious treatise to carry out the conversion of the K’iche’ to Christianity. This study offers an alternative...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 350–351.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Christina Gish Hill Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity . By Benjamin R. Kracht ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2018 . xxii+315 pp., illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, index. $75.00 hardcover...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 October 2022
... missions was both rigorous and permissive. Shaped by the strict rules of catechesis and instruction in the tenets of the faith, Jesuit religious instruction required an exacting knowledge of church doctrine, while it also aimed to engender individual formulations of Christian thinking. Concerned...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Brandi Denison Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape . Edited by Martin Joel W. and Nicholas Mark A. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . xiii + 325 pp., foreword, introduction, contributors, index...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 140–142.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Mark A. Nicholas The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom and the Native American Church . By Maroukis Thomas Constantine . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2010 . Civilization of the American Indian Series . 281 pp., notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 cloth.) Copyright...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Susan Kellogg Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. Edited by Burkhart Louise M. . Translated by Burkhart Louise M. , Sell Barry D. , and Poole Stafford . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . ix + 233 pp., introduction, illustrations, glossary...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 April 2014
...John F. Schwaller New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America . By Lynch John . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 . xviii + 404 pp., preface, abbreviations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index . $35.00 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
... religion evolved in the framework of hunter-gatherer subsistence, and landscapes were laden with religious significance. The authors of this essay seek to highlight the significance of sacrificial sites as ethnic and religious demarcations in times of conflict between Swedish society and the Sami. We focus...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 689–712.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Jeffrey D. Anderson Beginning in the 1880s, the Northern Arapaho appropriated Christianity while maintaining core religious forms and tribal solidarity. Through retranslation of the Arapaho Our Father, it is possible to understand how Arapaho Catholics “converted” this text and other forms...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 559–586.
Published: 01 October 2001
...William Cummings This article argues for a reconceptualization of the process of religious conversion based on local perceptions rather than assuming that conversion is a matter of replacing old beliefs with new ones. In the case of seventeenth-century Makassar, Indonesia, Islam was perceived...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 415–444.
Published: 01 July 2010
... in convents, and participation in religious brotherhoods and theatrical performances—their influence in their society becomes apparent. Nahua women's religious responsibilities in Mexico City lay between the officially recognized positions of men in the public arena and women's private responsibilities...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (4): 691–711.
Published: 01 October 2012
... in the composition of religious texts. Examining a Nahuatl sermon on the ministry of St. Sebastian, this article illustrates the necessity of Nahuatl in evangelization while exposing the potential for such a necessity to produce religious texts with unorthodox contents. Copyright 2012 by American Society...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 263–289.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Michael D. Hill This paper examines the religiously syncretic and culturally hybrid phenomenon of New Age spirituality among urban mestizos in the Cusco region of Peru, primarily through ethnographic analysis of the Urubamba-based Intic Churincuna (Children of the Sun) religious group, along...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 635–667.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Silvia M. Vidal Kuwé or Kúwai is a powerful cultural hero among the Arawak of the Northwest Amazon. This article analyzes Kuwé teachings and sacred routes as political, religious, migratory, and trade strategies of resistance. These routes were used by the Warekena and the Baré Indians...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 31–86.
Published: 01 April 2001
... time, I argue that the contradictory images of a living, bleeding Eden—found in many popular and scholarly accounts of Madagascar—are rooted in religious and political conflicts that are relevant to the country's ecological history. This case study furthers our general understanding of“the social life...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 157–170.
Published: 01 April 2001
... illustrate a “Vezoization” of these immigrants. Furthermore, the myth of the“Mère-Sirène,” Ampelamananisa, supports their identity construction. The Vezo environment includes both marine and terrestrial areas. The patriarch, the ritual pole holder, draws political and religious power by asking help from...
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