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Religious Sodalities of the Ixil Maya of Chajul, Guatemala: A Historical Perspective

Victor Castillo, Monika Banach
Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 93–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11463257
Published: 01 January 2025
... that cofradias and other religious sodalities of the colonial period operated rather differently from what ethnographers observed during the twentieth century in terms of ritual behavior and communal financial matters. Moreover, ethnographic data show that in Chajul these organizations might have been associated...
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Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period

Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Caterina Pizzigoni
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 361–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-001
Published: 01 July 2008
..., testament and funeral conventions, land measurement, ritual kinship, and the role of lay sodalities emerge from the testaments. American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Anderson, Arthur J. O., Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart, eds. 1976 Beyond the Codices . Berkeley: University of California...
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“I Have Been to the Country Above”: Indigenous Revitalizations in Late Sixteenth-Century Southeastern North America

Gregory A. Waselkov, Ashley A. Dumas
Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (2): 187–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-11579554
Published: 01 April 2025
... societal change. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2025 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2025 revitalization cosmograms pottery square grounds sodalities Around the year 1590 Indigenous communities across southeastern North America, from the south...
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Pueblos de Indios y educación en el México colonial, 1750-1821

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 741–742.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-741
Published: 01 October 2003
..., and in this they proved far more successful than the church. Pueblos aggressively went to court to fight the crown at every step, transferred their communal landholdings to private sodalities (and under this guise kept on throwing parties...
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The Colegio de San Gregorio: An Intellectual Refuge for Indigenous Peoples in Mexico City in the Late Eighteenth Century

Argelia Segovia-Liga
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 493–509.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9881287
Published: 01 October 2022
... aspire to occupy a few positions of relative prestige within the chapel’s organization, such as church bell ringers, organists, or acolytes (Pérez de Rivas 1896 : 120–21). Additional funds and donations for supporting the colegio also came from Indigenous sodalities, called cofradías. Besides...
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Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825; Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824

Kris Lane
Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 767–770.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-767
Published: 01 October 2003
... fide indigenous nobility emerged despite demographic and other challenges. Chapter 4 offers a detailed examination of the indigenous sodalities, or cofradías, that pro- liferated in Baroque Lima. Charney views these institutions...
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Comparative New-World Evangelization in Perspective

John F. Schwaller
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 509–514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-006
Published: 01 July 2009
... religious shrine, the huaca, and their hospital would replace the native curers. The enterprise was relatively successful, although not self-sustaining. The natives were enthusiastic about participation in the sodalities that surrounded the Christian cult. Much of the effort...
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Military Networks at the Extremes of Empire: The Che of Chile and the Puebloans of the United States

Jacob J. Sauer
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 643–664.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8579300
Published: 01 October 2020
... as “agents of alliance across Pueblos, suggesting an undergirding role of ritual sodalities in interpueblo alliance networks” (Whitely 2018 : 14). Debate exists regarding Puebloan political networks and social organization. Some argue that the Puebloans were hierarchically organized, based on hereditary...
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Violence, Exchange, and Renewal in the American Southwest

James F. Brooks
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (1): 205–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-1-205
Published: 01 January 2002
... Societies, Sacred Clown, Hunting, and War Sodalities and the fourteenth-century expan- sion of the Katsina religion so carefully detailed herein by John A. Ware and Eric Blinman. These authors see cycles of cultural collapse...
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The Virgin and the Inca: An Incaic Procession in the City of Cuzco in 1692

David Cahill
Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (3): 611–649.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-49-3-611
Published: 01 July 2002
... of Our Lady of Loreto. It was the occasion of the customary an- nual fiesta and procession of the Virgin, whose sodality or confraternity (cofradía) was located in the chapel, contiguous with the Jesuit church of La Compañía...
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Cacicas , Escribanos , and Landholders: Indigenous Women’s Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703–1832

Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 297–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4383750
Published: 01 April 2018
... women directly interrelated with their local officials for formal approval. Another cacica in 1712 legally obligated herself to pay her deceased husband’s debt in Jilotepec to a cofradía , or religious sodality, a lay organization that was commonly organized within church parishes (“Reconocimiento...
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Keres: Engendered Key to the Pueblo Puzzle

Jay Miller
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (3): 495–514.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-3-495
Published: 01 July 2001
...—their attribute most borrowed by other Pueblos and neighbors—are esoteric sodalities sometimes called medicine fraternities (White a, but best regarded as priesthoods, 5 with Bear as their most powerful animal spirit patron (White Though...
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The Right to Possess Memory: Winter Counts of the Blackfoot, 1830–1937

Blanca Tovías
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 99–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2376096
Published: 01 January 2014
... who, despite attaining financial advantages, did not turn these toward obtaining sacred Blackfoot knowl- edge, entering into the Blackfoot sodalities, and keeping sacred bundles. Yel- low Fly’s modernity, which he shared with other Siksika men of his genera- tion, would not have been welcomed...
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Building Indigenous Subjectivity: Jesuit Pedagogies of Emotion in the Colonial Andes

Alcira Dueñas
Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 401–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-9881215
Published: 01 October 2022
... indoctrinators also worked in urban Indian cofradías (sodalities) and in congregations of Indian soldiers and urban workers in Lima and Cuzco, preaching to them on Sundays and Mondays. 17 Indian congregations usually had their own chapel where they would hold indoctrination and Catholic rituals amid exuberant...
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Rural Castas , State Projects, and Ethnic Transformation in Western Guatemala, 1800–1821

Stacey Schwartzkopf
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 721–747.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2313885
Published: 01 October 2013
... with an occupation: individuals residing in both Malacatán and Cuilco were listed as stewards of ranches (estancias) owned by the church or by religious sodalities (cofradías).17 Another option may have been marriage to local indigenous women, as seems to have been the case with the farmers...
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Complicating Native American-White Relations in British North America

William Pencak
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 437–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-437
Published: 01 April 2005
... of ordinances written by Fr. Alonso de Molina for use of reli- gious sodalities, cofradías, attached to church hospitals’’ (26). ‘‘The 1552 date carried by the two copies in the United States he tells us, ‘‘is the date the Franciscans formally adopted it for use in their establishments’’ (20). Barry Sell...
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Nahuatl for the Twenty-First Century

Frances Karttunen
Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 449–477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-449
Published: 01 April 2005
... of ordinances written by Fr. Alonso de Molina for use of reli- gious sodalities, cofradías, attached to church hospitals’’ (26). ‘‘The 1552 date carried by the two copies in the United States he tells us, ‘‘is the date the Franciscans formally adopted it for use in their establishments’’ (20). Barry Sell...
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Climatic Signatures in Yucatecan Wills and Death Records

Victoria R. Bricker, Rebecca E. Hill
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 227–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-057
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the sodalities of the church, which managed its estates. And the loss of shamans meant that there would be no one to tend the sick and perform agricultural rites in the future. Finally, Tekanto and Ixil are not the only towns in the Yucatan penin- sula with death records extending back into colonial...
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