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Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Walter E. Little This essay discusses how Mayas, and visual images of them as discursively constructed subjects/objects, are located in dictator Jorge Ubico's economic development and modernization policies in the 1930s and 1940s. Ubico's contradictory policies of promoting Maya essentialness...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 147–149.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Margaret A. Jackson Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives . Edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2017 . xiii +295 pp., preface, figures, maps, illustrations, 15 chapters, afterword, bibliography...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 505–508.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., 2008. xiii + 291 pp., preface, introduction, index.
$65.00 cloth.)
Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru. By Margaret A. Jackson.
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xv + 232 pp., appen-
dixes, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.)
Sarahh Scher, Emory University...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (3): 597–630.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., the essay explores ways in which Q'enqo and other rock art sites reflect broader concepts of Inka visual representation and the construction of a cultural landscape. In what ways do rock art complexes, such as Q'enqo, materialize concepts of Inka social organization and space? The theoretical framework...
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Ethnohistory (2002) 49 (2): 466–468.
Published: 01 April 2002
... for the way gender and age were inter-
twined as these identities developed over time. Reading written and visual
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texts often interpreted to emphasize the misogyny of male-on-female vio...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Candace Greene A distinct form of Plains Indian historical narrative, the recounting of war deeds known as coup , was once produced through two linked forms of expression: oral recitation and pictorial representation. Many nineteenth-century examples of the visual component have survived, now...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 525–552.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Amy George-Hirons When we consider questions of alphabetic, cultural, and visual literacy in colonial Mesoamerica, an analysis of the way in which the producers of the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua appropriated European astronomical texts and images from medieval reportorios demonstrates much about...
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Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
... to draw from a repository of Indigenous visual signs that predate the Spanish invasion; research into the emergent pictorial scripts of Peru and Bolivia may provide insights into the meaning of visual signs in other forms of Andean inscription, such as ceramics and khipus. [email protected]...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 229–251.
Published: 01 April 2014
... America and some that were highly distinctive. This cartographic representation also enlists visual and textual language that was, by the late seventeenth century, familiar across the Indies. In what ways, then, does the Muñoz map speak to local histories as well as those that were more global? This essay...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 715–738.
Published: 01 October 2014
... this remote town to broader post-Tridentine doctrines in New Spain. The visual material offers a means of analyzing strategies of evangelization and the complexities of reception within the community of Tabí and more broadly in colonial Yucatán. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in their khipus and made accurate calculations based on them. The analysis and reconstruction of Cuzco’s calendar-demographic khipus is framed into the history of Catholic catechesis, which included early efforts at colonizing indigenous ways of thinking and experiencing time through tactile, visual, and sonic...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 223–248.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Elena FitzPatrick Sifford Abstract Africans in the Americas were first visually recorded by tlacuiloque , or indigenous artist-scribes, in mid-sixteenth-century Central Mexican manuscripts such as Diego Durán’s History , the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, and the Codex Azcatitlan. These figures, while...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 215–246.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Arikara population settled on allotments in the Nishu area until it was inundated by the Garrison Dam in the early 1950s. Through interviews with Arikara elders, this collaborative project documents the lived experience of Nishu, now under the waters of Lake Sakakawea and visually inaccessible...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (4): 635–653.
Published: 01 October 2014
... archival and visual evidence, this article examines the unique portability and profitability of Massasoit as a symbol and narrative device. Rather than fixing history in place and expressing a sense of permanence on the landscape, Massasoit's presence in Kansas City reveals the malleability of memory...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the Florentine Codex, devoted to “earthly things,” this analysis re-entangles hummingbird ethology with Huitzilopochtli’s cult, a bond that was severed in the early days of colonization. A close reading of the Nahuatl, Spanish, and visual texts in this book reveals that seasonal cycles and hummingbird behavior...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the visual content is impressive and reveals the multivalent nature of the colonial source. The layout of the book follows from the general themes found in the codex, focusing on time and religion, health, lineage, and history. The first chapter establishes the context in which the manuscript...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 157–158.
Published: 01 January 2021
... for Ethnohistory 2021 In Messianic Fulfillments , Hayes Peter Mauro combines art history, religious studies, and Native American history to examine four strains of evangelical Christian visual and textual representations of Native Americans, from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Each chapter...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 625–649.
Published: 01 October 2010
... in print, it facilitated Cherokee identity creation as a tribe and political position as a nation. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Anderson, Benedict 2006 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . London: Verso. Arnheim, Rudolf 1954 Art and Visual...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 357–360.
Published: 01 April 2014
... as
they come into being, and this is something different from what occurred
in Spain itself. There it was the imaging of what was already known and
experienced, a matter of filling in that knowledge with ever-increasing
detail, deploying all the various visual genres at hand, be they maps, plans,
city...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 201–202.
Published: 01 January 2004
..., they serve
primarily as visual records of the museum’s expeditions and collections.
Together, they photographically document the historical role of the mu-
seum in archaeology and anthropology, from their early incarnations to the
present day, as well as the contributions that have resulted from that con...
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