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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 493–518.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... Copyright 2021 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2021 Popol Wuj Mayan literature digital humanities textual encoding Our understanding of the Popol Wuj depends on the edition that we consult. This is an obvious statement, and one that is true for every book that finds its way...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of information might remain undiscovered in the quantitative and narrative khipus? Khipu construction generally requires binary choices, pointing toward the encoding of such social organizational entities as moieties—dual social divisions (e.g., hanan [upper]/ hurin [lower])—endemic to Andean communities from...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 357–360.
Published: 01 April 2014
... views, or textual descriptions. Political borders may have vacillated and
wars may have been fought over them, but vast new mountains and shores
did not suddenly appear on the horizon. Mapping in the viceroyalties, of
course, called upon these European cartographic techniques, as both Dana...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 175–182.
Published: 01 January 2010
...) to the phonological representation of
spoken language for the purpose of encoding propositional content. Bring-
ing both of these types of works together in one volume reminds us that
texts can function at semiotic levels other than the provisional and that the
Ethnohistory 57:1 (Winter 2010) DOI 10.1215...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 129–157.
Published: 01 January 2007
...
society likely drew on ambiguities encoded in official culture—especially
religious culture—itself. I thus draw attention in the final parts of this essay
to Christian ritual, including the symbolism of blood, priestly dress, and
the alleged sexual practices of clergy. Religious culture not only...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 573–595.
Published: 01 July 2015
... anthropology, Maya hieroglyphs
Introduction
A comparative discussion of colonial Mesoamerican literacy is, minimally,
to investigate people’s use of a technology (graphic communication) in a
particular linguistic and sociohistorical environment. Writing, in the sense
of the encoding of language...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 29–46.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Elizabeth R. Bell The Rab'inal Achi , a Maya drama originating in the sixteenth century, contains an encoded discourse about the human body. Using four components—the heart, the whole body, the navel, and the head—this play explores and negotiates the territorial disputes of the Maya region during...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 247–267.
Published: 01 April 2020
... producción textual jesuítica en guaraní a través de los inventarios de bibliotecas .” Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos . Debates. journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/73946 (accessed 8 January 2019 ). Vega Fabián R. 2018b . “ Más allá de las reducciones del Paraná y el Uruguay. Los libros en...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 215–235.
Published: 01 April 2016
... are not conventional modes of historical writing, either indigenous or Western, but in the first case a Roman Catholic catechism adapted into pictorial form and in the second a religious drama linked to Renaissance and baroque European performance traditions. Both genres had been assimilated into indigenous textual...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 311–341.
Published: 01 April 2021
... transcriptions to date is compiled. Textual interpretation informs an exegetical typology of “paper khipus”—a division of the texts into distinguishable categories. The initial typology is expanded using the outcome of its statistical evaluation. Pre- versus postconquest content and the incorporation of currency...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 409–420.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Kathryn E. Sampeck
to less-than-writing but stood as an endeavor equal in literacy to the more
common alphabetic texts.
Much of the time, Mesoamerican appropriation of alphabetic writ-
ing or European textual schemes was a colonial necessity, the expedient
solution. The choices of media...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 359–414.
Published: 01 April 2004
... to carry these mes-
sages
Bird feathers are signs to men, as well as messages to gods and
abstract spirit forces. (Tyler 1979: 3).
The general notion that a prayer-stick encodes a decipherable textual mes-
sage is central to the Hopi conception. For example, Hopis repeatedly
remarked...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 639–668.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of this event, published in the Relation of 1670–71, was preceded
by what can only be described as a textual voyage of discovery. The Rela-
tion of 1670–71 included a map of Lake Superior and the northern parts of
Lakes Michigan and Huron that the Jesuits labeled the “Outaouac territo-
ries...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 753–754.
Published: 01 October 2009
... themes
of the early modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 762–764.
Published: 01 October 2009
... themes
of the early modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 771–773.
Published: 01 October 2009
... modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief review cannot
do...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 778–780.
Published: 01 October 2009
... modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief review cannot
do...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 780–781.
Published: 01 October 2009
... themes
of the early modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 755–756.
Published: 01 October 2009
... themes
of the early modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 749–753.
Published: 01 October 2009
... themes
of the early modern world. The relationships of the colonizer and the colo-
nized and of canonical texts and vernacular presentations, and the role of
the Church in both literacy and the standardization of textual material, are
important in this work. This is a fascinating work, and a brief...
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