Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 1343
Search Results for writing
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 701–723.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Theda Perdue American Society for Ethnohistory 2004 Race and Culture: Writing the
Ethnohistory of the Early South
Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
In 1830, Lewis Cass, the governor of Michigan Territory and an acknowl-
edged expert on Indians, contributed...
Journal Article
Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 365–367.
Published: 01 April 2007
...David Webster Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, AD 600-800: A Poetics of Line. By Adam Herring. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 316 pp, introduction, maps, photos, drawings, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book Reviews...
Journal Article
A History of the Khipu Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Sarahh Scher A History of the Khipu. By Brokaw Galen . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xvi + 300 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $95.00 cloth.) Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America. Edited by Boone...
View articletitled, A History of the Khipu Their Way of <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America
View
PDF
for article titled, A History of the Khipu Their Way of <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America
Journal Article
The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Rose Stremlau The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance . By Cushman Ellen . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 238 pp., preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...
Journal Article
Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Galen Brokaw Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru . By Burns Kathryn . ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2011 . xv + 247 pp., preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index . $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...
Journal Article
Native Women's History in Eastern North America Before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Albany should appeal to a large audience, who will appreciate his
fluent writing. Bradley’s objective is twofold. First, he tries to answer the
question of how relationships developed between two sets of groups: on
the one side two Native peoples, the Mahicans along the Hudson River...
View articletitled, Native Women's History in Eastern North America Before 1900: A Guide to Research and <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, Native Women's History in Eastern North America Before 1900: A Guide to Research and <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>
Journal Article
Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing, and the Public Sphere
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 73–85.
Published: 01 January 2010
...-Day Calendars. Ancient Mesoamerica 19 , no. 1 (2008): 67 -81. Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing,
and the Public Sphere
David Tavárez, Vassar College
Abstract. In this essay, I analyze a sample drawn from a corpus of about 107 alpha-
betic texts that were produced in a clandestine...
Journal Article
Writing as Resistance: Maya Graphic Pluralism and Indigenous Elite Strategies for Survival in Colonial Yucatan, 1550-1750
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John F. Chuchiak, IV This paper offers a revisionist viewpoint on the nature of colonial Maya literacy, showing that the colonial Yucatec Maya elite utilized both the traditional hieroglyphic script and the new alphabetic writing skills taught by the Franciscan friars. By adapting and utilizing...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> as Resistance: Maya Graphic Pluralism and Indigenous Elite Strategies for Survival in Colonial Yucatan, 1550-1750
View
PDF
for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> as Resistance: Maya Graphic Pluralism and Indigenous Elite Strategies for Survival in Colonial Yucatan, 1550-1750
Journal Article
Sodomy, Sin, and String Writing: The Moral Origins of Andean Khipu
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 165–173.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Sabine Hyland According to the anonymous seventeenth-century author of the Quito Manuscript, ancient Andeans once possessed a writing system ( qillqa ) that they replaced with knotted strings ( khipu ) as part of the religious and sexual reform of their nation. The manuscript's redactor, Fernando...
Journal Article
Reflections on What Writing Means, Beyond What It “Says”: The Political Economy and Semiotics of Graphic Pluralism in the Americas
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 175–182.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., language ideology, and multileveled semiotic functioning. As the illustrations discussed here suggest, writing and other forms of graphic representation powerfully connect the ideological and material cultural realms, and their patterns of use (including production, distribution, circulation...
View articletitled, Reflections on What <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> Means, Beyond What It “Says”: The Political Economy and Semiotics of Graphic Pluralism in the Americas
View
PDF
for article titled, Reflections on What <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> Means, Beyond What It “Says”: The Political Economy and Semiotics of Graphic Pluralism in the Americas
Journal Article
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (3): 543–544.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Daniel R. Mandell Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England . By O'Brien Jean M. . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . xxvi + 270 pp., note on sources, introduction, acknowledgments, index . $25.00 paper.) Copyright 2011...
Journal Article
Competing Visions of Empowerment: Oneida Progressive-Era Politics and Writing Tribal Histories
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 419–444.
Published: 01 July 2014
... conversations about the meaning of Indigenous empowerment in modern America and the ideal form that it should take. Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2014 Competing Visions of Empowerment:
Oneida Progressive-Era Politics and
Writing Tribal Histories
Doug Kiel, Williams College...
View articletitled, Competing Visions of Empowerment: Oneida Progressive-Era Politics and <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> Tribal Histories
View
PDF
for article titled, Competing Visions of Empowerment: Oneida Progressive-Era Politics and <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> Tribal Histories
Journal Article
Pipil Writing: An Archaeology of Prototypes and a Political Economy of Literacy
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Kathryn E. Sampeck This article will explore how Pipil writing compares to better-known Central Mexican pictorial manuscripts. The sole evidence for preconquest writing in this region was presented in the seventeenth century by Don Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán through his drawings...
Journal Article
The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 793–794.
Published: 01 October 2013
...Sarahh Scher The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village's Way with Writing. By Salomon Frank and Niño-Murcia Mercedes . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xiv + 368 pp., preface, introduction, appendix, notes, references, index . $25.95 paper.) Copyright 2013...
Journal Article
Inalienable Dignity: Writing Counterhegemonic Universal Human Rights Histories
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and with statisticians through the selective data they compile. To write authoritatively about the Indigenous past is, therefore, to insist on the validity of Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous knowledge-production processes. We cannot do so without responding forthrightly to critics who question...
Journal Article
Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (1): 95–117.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Sabine Hyland Abstract Andean pictographic writing, once considered the creation of foreign missionaries, is now recognized as a series of locally developed scripts that emerged after contact with alphabetic writing. However, the role of stylistic variation within the Andean pictographic scripts...
FIGURES
| View all 9
View articletitled, Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span>
Image
in Pedro de Alvarado, Tonatiuh: Reconsidering Apotheosis in Nahua and Highland Maya Narratives of the Spanish Invasion
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2022
Figure 1. The logogram tonatiw in Nahuatl writing. (a) Name tag of Juan Tonatiuh. Detail from Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 579v. (b) Name tag of Alonso Itztonatiuh. The tonatiw sun disk has alternating yellow rays with black obsidian blades, corresponding to the logogram itz . Detail from
More
Image
Top half of Pickering 2; the writing on Pickering 2 is faded, although stil...
Available to Purchase
in Style and Rebus in an Emergent Script from Bolivia: The Koati Variant of Andean Pictographic Writing
> Ethnohistory
Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 5. Top half of Pickering 2; the writing on Pickering 2 is faded, although still legible. Image by Manuel Medrano, from the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 21-50-30/F295.
More
Journal Article
Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 295–297.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Frank Salomon [email protected] Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes . By Laura León Llerena . ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2023 . 261 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, references, index. $65.00 cloth...
View articletitled, Reading the Illegible: Indigenous <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
View
PDF
for article titled, Reading the Illegible: Indigenous <span class="search-highlight">Writing</span> and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
Journal Article
Reading and Writing the Lakota Language: Lakota Iyapi Un Wowapi Nahan Yawapi
Available to Purchase
Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 359–361.
Published: 01 April 2001
... be hoping for too much.
Reading and Writing the Lakota Language: Lakota Iyapi Un Wowapi
Nahan Yawapi. By Albert White Hat Sr. Edited by Jael Kampfe, foreword
by Vine Deloria Jr. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. xiv...
1
