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Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (3): 539–540.
Published: 01 August 2010
...David T. Garrett Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes . By Gose Peter . Anthropological Horizons . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2008 . Illustrations. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii...
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In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (4): 709–711.
Published: 01 November 2023
... when read aloud. In sum, In Praise of the Ancestors is a cri de coeur for historical difference, an exciting call for scholars to attend to temporalities more communal than individual and irreproducible—that in the case of the Incas nonetheless made the historical rule. [email protected]...
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Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 688–690.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Charles F. Walker [email protected] Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology . By Christopher Heaney . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 358 pp. Cloth...
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Our Indigenous Ancestors: A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 741–743.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Ryan Edwards Our Indigenous Ancestors: A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943 . By Larson Carolyne R. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2015 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 221 pp. Cloth...
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Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib’ K'iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors”
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 353–354.
Published: 01 May 2019
...W. George Lovell Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib’ K'iche’ Títulos: “The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors.” By Mallory E. Matsumoto . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2017 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii, 423 pp. Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 682–684.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Richard L. Burger The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru . By Moseley Michael E. . New York : Thames and Hudson , 1992 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables . 272 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Until Michael...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 497–498.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Gary M. Feinman Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. By Mcanany Patricia A. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1995 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 213 pp. Cloth . $27.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 785–786.
Published: 01 November 1970
...George M. Foster In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Maya Community . By Nash June . New Haven , 1970 . Yale University Press . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiv , 368 . $12.50 . Copyright 1970...
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Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11834456.
Published: 29 April 2025
...Abelardo de la Cruz [email protected] Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535–1660 . By Edward Anthony Polanco . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2024 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary...
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Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and forcibly transported them to Cartagena city. In the aftermath of these military campaigns, some putative owners filed lawsuits claiming that their ancestors had never relinquished ownership claims to the ancestors of freeborn residents of the forests. Since many of the captives had lived in the hinterlands...
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The “Little Doctrine” And Indigenous Catechesis in New Spain
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 167–206.
Published: 01 May 2014
... into a testimony to the wisdom and faith of their picture-literate conquest-era ancestors. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This essay traces the colonial history of a text that I will call the “Little Doctrine.” This designation is both descriptive and appropriate, for some of the text's...
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 November 2011
... advantage of these ambiguities and describe themselves as “pure-blooded,” thereby reframing their local authority in terms recognized and respected by Spanish authorities. Specifically, savvy native lords naturalized the concept by portraying their own ancestors as the originators of “pure” bloodlines...
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Güemes Documentado
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 365.
Published: 01 May 1981
... than a century’s effort on the part of the Güemes family to bring together all available manuscripts relating to their famous ancestor, Martín Güemes. The first volume deals with Güemes’s life from his birth to 1813—the period most difficult to document since he was, at most, a figure of secondary...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 271–272.
Published: 01 May 1995
... if any of their ancestors was a later immigrant, even if the great majority were not. Moreover, the category “recent” includes people whose immigrant ancestors arrived more than a century earlier. Since most of the late colonial upper class was descended (through females as well as males) from both...
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Dos revoluciones
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (1): 90–91.
Published: 01 February 1966
... presented to support the traditional interpretation of this epoch. Much more controversial, however, is the author’s version of the role of his ancestor, Martín de Álzaga, in the struggle for independence. He credits that wealthy Spanish-born resident of Buenos Aires with an early desire to create...
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Narrating Boundary Markers in Early Colonial Highland Guatemala
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11834432.
Published: 29 April 2025
... communities found themselves systematically dispossessed of lands that they had inherited from their ancestors. New territorial con icts, spawned by colonial rule, layered atop territorial disputes between local populations that dated back to Postclassic times (900 1524 CE). At the same time, the highland...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (4): 786–787.
Published: 01 November 1986
... were a kind of prayer performed by Aztec warriors to summon their ancestors to join in battle against their enemies. Although he admits the possibility that some of the songs could have pre-Hispanic origins, Bierhorst believes that they are an entirely new type: an integral part of a Nahua...
View articletitled, Cantares mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos, with an Analytical Transcription and Grammatical Notes
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Náyari History, Politics, and Violence: From Flowers to Ash
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (3): 571–572.
Published: 01 August 2003
... as innocent as eating a banana point to a complex system of meaning that defines and is redefined ceremonially. Looming large in this Cora costumbre is a concern for the return of seasonal rains, due partly to the belief that deceased ancestors will return in the form of necessary rainfall. In addition...
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Unveiling the Virgin: Maya Marianism on the Eve of the 1712 Tzeltal Revolt
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (2): 201–232.
Published: 01 May 2025
... figures into the local landscape as patrons and ancestors. The Marian apparition and devotion in Santa Marta appears to have been intended to stimulate regional renewal through a Mesoamerican Christian story replete with ritual seeds of fertility and rebirth—ripe maize in a milpa, the creative potential...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 420–422.
Published: 01 August 1992
... paternal and maternal ancestors in most cases had been in Caracas since the middle of the seventeenth century or earlier, whose male relatives and ancestors served and had served on the town council, and whose family members appear on lists of cacao haciendas taken in 1684, 1720, and 1744 (p. 10). Thus...
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