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The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation in the Orinoco Delta
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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (3): 417–438.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Juan Luis Rodriguez This essay will discuss contending language ideologies in early twentieth-century efforts at translating Warao into Spanish. It will analyze the linguistic and semiotic collision between the Warao and the emerging Venezuelan nation-state. Its main focus will be on the Catholic...
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Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550–1650
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 753–754.
Published: 01 October 2009
... to a poem by Bertolt Brecht, “Questions
from a Worker Who Reads History,” rendered in crisp English translation
by H. R. Hays. Some lines of Brecht run:
Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone...
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Nahuatl Theater. Volume 3. Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 April 2010
... while witnessing some of the most dramatic events of
Cherokee history.
In The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Rowena McClin-
ton offers a thoroughly annotated translation of the mission diary, a journal
in which Moravians recorded daily events and observations of their Indian...
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From People to Place and Back Again: Back Translation as Decentering—an Andean Case Study
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 355–381.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Susan Elizabeth Ramírez This article develops a methodology for revealing to an outsider the un-elaborated cultural connotations of translated native words, using a case study of early intercultural communication in an Andean colonial setting. It focuses not on the general translation process from...
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Yokol Cab: Mayan Translation of European Astrological Texts and Images in the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 525–552.
Published: 01 July 2015
... textual and visual translation process. Copyright 2015 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2015 astrology Kaua reportorios visual literacy translation References Avelar André de 1594 Chronographia ou reportorio dos tempos o mais copioso que te agora sayo a luz . Lisbon...
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Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 597–621.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Paja Faudree In this article, I argue for placing the study of translators and translation processes more squarely at the center of ethnohistoric research. I focus on two texts well known to scholars: a seventeenth-century text written in Chontal Maya and its contemporary translation into Spanish...
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The Book of Chilam Balam of Na: Facsimile, Translation, and Edited Text
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 422–424.
Published: 01 April 2002
... a clear statement of
method as well as thoughtful reflections on the status of documents, prob-
lems of translation, and inference.
A Gathering of Rivers is very readable and well written and is nicely...
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Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 617–618.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Caskey Russell Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Edited by Brian Swann. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xxii + 617 pp., introduction, translations, list of contributors, index. $27.50 paper.) 2006 Book Reviews...
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Interpreters, Translators, and the Spoken Word in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 393–419.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Dale T. Graden Interpreters and translators played a central role in the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century. Some helped traffickers. Others aided in the suppression of the slave trade. On land, Mixed Courts of Justice for the Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1819–71...
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The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (1): 177–178.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Miguel Martínez The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World . By Hamann Byron Ellsworth . ( Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 2015 . xviii+223 pp., illustrations, bibliography, appendixes, index . $90 paper.) Copyright 2018...
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Egerton Codex, Lord’s Prayer in Testerian hieroglyphics with Nahuatl transl...
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Figure 3. Egerton Codex, Lord’s Prayer in Testerian hieroglyphics with Nahuatl translation. Courtesy British Museum.
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Fashioning the Soul in Colonial Río de la Plata: Religious Education in the Guaraní Missions, 1609–1768
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Kristin Huffine Abstract This article examines how the 1705 Guaraní translation and publication of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg’s On the Difference between the Temporal and Eternal in Río de la Plata’s colonial missions provides evidence of Jesuit instruction in advanced spiritual formation as well...
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Nahuas Stage Imperial Conquest: The Destruction of Jerusalem in New Spain
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 321–352.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the anti-Semitic message that fundamentally characterizes this legend to the context of New Spain, justifying wars of imperial conquest as divine justice for perceived offenses against God. An anonymous Nahua translator-playwright also accommodated a version of this legend for performance to Nahua...
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Northern Arapaho Conversion of a Christian Text
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 689–712.
Published: 01 October 2001
... paths for understanding indigenized texts in their local and specific cultural and historical contexts. This article thus follows an ever-developing effort in ethnohistory to understand the ways that indigenous peoples actively translated Euro-American texts and interpreted Euro-American culture...
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Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Luso-Afro-Brazilian society presented Indians with diverse opportunities to impede expansion. They did so by understanding their adversary's culture and translating that understanding into acts orchestrated to achieve the greatest possible effect. As such, armed conflict did not represent the cessation...
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“This Book Is Your Book”: Jesuit Editorial Policy and Individual Indigenous Reading in Eighteenth-Century Paraguay
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (2): 247–267.
Published: 01 April 2020
... devotional text entirely written in Guaraní that was published in Madrid in 1759 and 1760. Until now, literature has only approached the Ara poru in a superficial and external way, because it is written in a different way from the current ones. The unpublished translation of the summary and two preliminary...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (2): 223–232.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of their homeland mid-17 th century through European-allied struggles with the English-connected Haudenosaunee ‘they extend a house,’ known to English and French then as the Iroquois. The translation into English and linguistic analysis are my own, based on what I have learned about the language for over 45 years...
View articletitled, En Ascensione Domini: Jesus triomphant le jour de son ascension comparé a un capitaine victorieux (à patre pierson) [On Ascension Day: Jesus triumphant the day of his ascension compared to a victorious captain]
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“We wait to be true people, Christians”: An Idolatry Confession in Zapotec
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 325–350.
Published: 01 July 2022
...David Tavárez Context This article presents a translation and analysis of the only extant formal confession of human sacrifice written in an Indigenous language in the colonial Americas. An analysis of this document, written in Northern Zapotec by the town officials of Yalalag in 1704, provides...
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Tarascan Historicity: Narrative Structure and the Production of the Past in the Case of the Two Tariacuris
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 637–662.
Published: 01 October 2013
...David L. Haskell The recent translation and description of La memoria de don Melchor Caltzin , produced in 1543 and the earliest document written in the Tarascan (Purhépecha) language, opens an important window into the study of Tarascan historiography and state formation, which has generally been...
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Parallel Nahuatl and Pictorial Texts in the Mixtec Codex Sierra Texupan
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 July 2015
... the book over a fifteen-year period from 1550 to 1564. This article presents some preliminary findings on the interrelationship between the manuscript's pictorial and alphabetic texts as well as observations about its language. The findings are part of a forthcoming transcription, translation, and analysis...
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