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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 February 1965
...William O. Cord Hispanoamérica en lucha por su independencia . México , 1962 . Cuadernos Americanos . Pp. xv , 349 . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 This volume contains fifty-four essays, letters, and speeches—or fragments thereof—each written by one of fourteen...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 458.
Published: 01 August 1967
...William Cord Aportaciones de México al mundo. Lo que México ha dado al mundo en vegetales, minerales, animales, inventos, sistemas, doctrinas, y aportaciones a la cultura universal . 2 vols. By Rivas Heriberto García . México , 1964 . Editorial Diana . Pp. 208 , 228 . Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 409–432.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sabine Hyland; Christine Lee Abstract How did khipus—knotted cords that encode information—function within the economic systems of the postcolonial Andes? Best known as the method by which the Incas recorded administrative data, khipu use continued into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Few...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1936) 16 (2): 226–228.
Published: 01 May 1936
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 February 2015
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (4): 717–722.
Published: 01 November 2016
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in Indigenous Record Keeping and Hacienda Culture in the Andes: Modern Khipu Accounting on the Island of the Sun, Bolivia
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 2021
Figure 1. Modern type A khipu from Cuzco, Peru, circa 1920. Private collection. Photo by Sabine Hyland. Note the doubling of the main cord. This khipu was not included in Mackey's survey.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 536–538.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Hendrik Kraay Artífices da cidadania: Mutualismo, educação e trabalho no Recife oitocentista . By Cord Marcelo Mac . Campinas, Brazil : Editora da Unicamp , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. 440 pp. Paper . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press...
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Honor, Maternity, and the Disciplining of Women: Infanticide in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 August 1992
... that she had demonstrated maternal sentiment in one or more of the three most acceptable ways: by gathering baby clothes, by preparing for the birth, or by cutting the umbilical cord. The gathering of baby clothes indicated a woman’s proper intentions toward her expected child. Agustina Coronel’s lawyer...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 147.
Published: 01 February 1993
... Panama “the geographical umbilical cord of the Americas” (p. 87) or when he describes the Admiral of the Ocean Sea in these words; “Having lived and dreamed at a temporal junction of medieval twilight and Renaissance dawning, it is inevitable that Columbus should embody the paradoxes of that confluence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (4): 715–716.
Published: 01 November 2020
... imagery of new Mayan divinities descending on cords from the heavens to usher in a new age of Mayan existence after the destruction of the previous era in order to depict Our Lady of Itzmal's arrival. Furthermore, the author portrayed her as a new divinity, distinct from precontact ones. In other words...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 February 2008
... than in Peru. Second, nonalphabetic means of indigenous record keeping, particularly the quipu system of knotted cords, continued to be widely used in the postconquest period (indeed, in some Andean areas into the early 1900s), thus reducing the need for written records. Despite these differences...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 505–506.
Published: 01 August 2018
... community, a description of the practice of bestowing a talent to a newborn infant by passing the powers of a substance through the baby's umbilical cord, and a vivid account of the mid-nineteenth-century artisans' insurrection in Bogotá from the diary of a young woman, and much, much more. Readers...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and symbolic cords to indicate their membership and status. Confraternities, although often organized by ethnicity, did not segregate based on status. Ultimately, communities gravitated toward these institutions because they served a need. The limitations of the book are few. It could have focused...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the Tupicochans kept thorough records of townsmen’s participation in shared work, or faenas , through detailed accounting on knotted cords, or khipus , recording devices based on a positional system of knots made within a series of ropes arranged in a cape-like fashion. This annotation system was central...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (4): 586–588.
Published: 01 November 1962
... aid is more likely to create resentment than friendship” (p. 346). “Within the new United States world strategy, Latin America is still our ‘inner fortress’ ” (p. 351). “It is inconceivable that, for lack of greater economic and financial support, the Latin American republics would cut the cords...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 357–359.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the state through various grassroots legal efforts from the 1530s to the 1600s, which they often determined in town assemblies, funded through their sapci communal assets, and accounted for using the famous knotted cords, the khipus . The first two chapters are especially noteworthy for offering much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (3): 555–556.
Published: 01 August 2012
... (knotted cords) for confession and conversion. Charles elaborates on the pioneering works of Rolena Adorno about indios ladinos (lit., Spanish-speaking Indians), a privileged group of intermediaries who, like the parish assistants at the center of this work, “used the Spanish language to bridge...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1946) 26 (1): 78–79.
Published: 01 February 1946
... and superstitions, were similar to those of the ancient Hebrews; and it is confirmed by the authority of Esdras, who says that the tribes went as far as Arsareth, a region (ac cording to the most learned Genebrardo ) on the far eastern fringe of Great Tartary or Scythia. We come to more realistic information when...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (4): 629–656.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the umbilical cord. Coca Ordóñez's granddaughter explained that metals, unlike ceramic and bone, are “cold” and could cool the body, producing chills, sweating, and fever. As she further explained: In the old days, we didn't cut the umbilical cord with scissors or a knife. . . . we didn't cut with knives...
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