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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...
View articletitled, Värro Muorra : The Landscape Significance of Sami Sacred Wooden Objects and <span class="search-highlight">Sacrificial</span> Altars
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 13–30.
Published: 01 April 2001
...Jeanne Dina In this article Masikoro identity is linked to the Sakalava of western and northwestern Madagascar. An analysis that associates two ritual objects, the hazomanga (a wooden pole symbolizing a lineage, sometimes shaped like a cross,upon which sacrificial blood is consecrated to ones raza...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
...) as teteualtia (e.g., Sahagún 1950–82 , 9:60), which led some scholars to believe that it incorporates the root of the noun tetehuitl (offering paper), and the whole thing translates as “to bathe sacrificial papers” (Máynez 2002 : 257; Schwaller 2019 : 71). However, since in older Nahuatl orthography, u...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 713–724.
Published: 01 October 2003
...Helaine Silverman American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Cook, Anita G. 2001 Huari D-Shaped Structures,Sacrificial Offerings, and Divine Rulership. In Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook, eds. Pp. 137 -63. Austin: University of Texas Press...
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2025
... and synthesizes them to construct a narrative about birds in the Inka empire. Second, she consults the archaeological record, looking anew at surviving feathered garments and related objects, and especially considering the well-documented trove of Inka artifacts recovered from an Inka sacrificial event at the top...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 599–600.
Published: 01 July 2014
... that these figures are meant to represent mid-level nobles of the state
and are analogous to the sacrificial victims themselves: aqulla-kuna (chosen
women) in the case of the female victims and surrogates for local nobles in
the case of the males.
While this book is overall a worthwhile investigation...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 October 2003
... that such monu-
ments projected statements about royal power and ritual and that they,
along with the altars, plazas, and buildings around them, were the settings
for royal ceremonies, many with overtly sacrificial themes...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 October 2003
... ceremonies, many with overtly sacrificial themes.
Newsome argues that stelae recorded not simply isolated events that
bolstered and legitimized elite power but instead whole ritual cycles that
manifested ‘‘divine associations...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (4): 497–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
... sacrificial knives, some obsidian prismatic blades, a “circumcision” wooden tool provided with obsidian blades, weapons, clothes and sandals, a dried gourd cup, native currencies such as copper hatchets, working tools, and featherworks with Christian imagery. It is noteworthy that the initial list ends...
View articletitled, The Descrittione dell’India occidentale , a Sixteenth-Century Source on the Italian Reception of Mesoamerican Material Culture
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
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of the Ochpaniztli festival and to which he refers in other fragments of his
works as tiçapaloliztli (tasting of chalk) (e.g., Sahagún 1997: 77). None-
theless, there appear to be differences: while in the version given by Durán
a warrior tasted blood from a sacrificial...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 489–513.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the end of an era. In this final period, Tollan was an object of destructive mockeries performed by Tezcatlipoca, who manifested himself under different disguises. These included becoming a chili vendor who seduced Huemac’s daughter, an old lady giving out sacrificial banners, or a marketplace performer...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
... continue, at least for another fifty-two years. The heart of a specially
chosen sacrificial victim was extracted and offered to the flames, which
were then used to light temple fires throughout the land. These activities
were accompanied by widespread rituals of renewal in shrines and domes-
tic...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
... also conceived as repositories of spiritual essence” (314). In relation to ritual, Russo ( 2002 : 230–36) noted the near omnipresence of feathers in Nahua sacrificial practices and contended that, because of their special ability to contain tonalli, feathers enabled the series of identifications...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
... sacrifice in the Codex Tudela, a sixteenth-century Mexica manuscript (see fig. 7 ). 20 The priest is shown with a dark brown skin tone that contrasts with the tan coloring of the sacrificial victim, indicating the use of body paint likely derived from poisonous or hallucinogenic plants and animals...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with Spanish friars. Several pre-Columbian statues display hearts, particularly stylized sacrificial hearts. In one famous statue of Coatlicue, the female deity wears a necklace composed of alternating hearts and human hands. The statue formed one part of a group of statues, according to Elizabeth Boone ( 1999...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... for their ritual immolation (Sahagún 1979 , bk. 9, chap. 14). As described in the Florentine Codex, once these sacrificial victims had been fed their last meal, a priest “came blowing, sounding a chichtli (instrument), which came out [sounding] ‘ chich ’” (this refers to the onomatopoeic “word” of the whistle...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 January 2021
... temples (Cortés 1969 : 50; Díaz del Castillo 2008 : 156). They filtered their perceptions through their own cultural lenses to make sense of the strange new world they encountered. Their reactions to the odors—delight in the pleasantly fragrant city, horror in rank sacrificial residues—provided...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 345–354.
Published: 01 July 2020
... ). In studies of Nahua ritual regalia, Alessandra Russo ( 2002 ) analyzed feathers as material components of sacrificial rites, while Justyna Olko ( 2014 ) discussed the use of feathers to demonstrate rank. These works shed light on exchanges of feathers through trade, tribute, and gifting as well...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 April 2018
...-taking. Following centuries of tradition, Maya elites publicly advertised the fate ultimately awaiting many of their captives through sacrificial rites, display of victims’ body parts, and monumental imagery (Berryman 2007 ; Mendoza 2007 ; e.g., Landa 1941 : 12, 120, 123). From the initial years...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 223–256.
Published: 01 April 2004
... situation.
The competent members of the audience usually specify the details
and the order of the narration of the journey of Nayeche and the gray bull
Engiro as they eat their sacrificial meals. At this time, the master storytellers
practice their art by weighing the varying social and political...
View articletitled, Oral Tradition of Origin as a Remembered Memory and a Repeated Event:sorghum as a Gift in Jie and Turkana Historical Consciousness
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