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Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (4): 753–755.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Ronald J. Morgan Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World . Edited by Cruz Anne J. and Hernández Rosilie . Burlington, VT : Ashgate , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 274 pp. Cloth , $104.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University...
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The Question of the Literacy of Columbus in 1492
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1930) 10 (4): 500–519.
Published: 01 November 1930
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Native-Language Literacy in Colonial Peru: The Question of Mundane Quechua Writing Revisited
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (1): 41–70.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and channels of alphabetic literacy in Quechua. The article argues that a standardized written form of Quechua developed by the church was in fact widely used among the indigenous elite, but that it never became an important medium of internal administrative record keeping in indigenous communities, as did...
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in Prodigal Sons and Beardless Machos: Labor, Migration, and Masculinity at Itaipú Binacional, Alto Paraná, Paraguay, 1974–1980
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 2. Students enrolled in literacy course. Conempa Remiandú (Sitio de Obras), 20 Apr. 1980, p. 8.
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Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Laura Randall Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy . By Kirkendall Andrew J. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 246 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...
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Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 May 2018
...David Mora-Marín Mayan Literacy Reinvention in Guatemala . By Holbrock Mary J. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2016 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 250 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...
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The State, Literacy, and Popular Education in Chile, 1964-1990
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (3): 629–631.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Gerardo Alberto Mora-Brenes The State, Literacy, and Popular Education in Chile, 1964 – 1990 . By Austin Robert . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2003 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xlii , 370 pp. Cloth , $105.00 . © 2006 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (3): 517.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Stephen E. Lewis Roots of Identity: Language and Literacy in Mexico . By King Linda . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1994 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index, xii, 193 pp. Cloth , $37.50 . Copyright 1998 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 February 1993
...John E. Kicza Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico, 1693–1821 . By Gallegos Bernardo P. . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1992 . Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 119 pp. Cloth , $27.50 . Paper , $11.95 . Copyright 1993...
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Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Carol Damian Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes . By Rappaport Joanne and Cummins Tom . Narrating Native Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Plates. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 370 pp. Paper , $25.95...
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Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (3): 490–491.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Aaron P. Althouse Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature . By Rasmussen Birgit Brander . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 207 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Copyright 2013...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Frances Karttunen Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes . Edited by Boone Elizabeth Hill and Mignolo Walter D. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1994 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii , 324 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Paper...
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Castas , Creoles, and the Rise of a Maya Lingua Franca in Eighteenth-Century Yucatan
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (1): 29–61.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Mark Lentz Abstract Although indigenous languages elsewhere in the Americas declined during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in eighteenth-century Yucatan fluency and literacy in Yucatec Maya became more common among castas and creoles. During the later colonial period, interpreters...
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Other Geographies of Struggle: Afro-Brazilians and the American Civil War
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 35–62.
Published: 01 February 2020
... or that they would allow the enslaved to claim the principle of free soil. Afro-Brazilian geopolitical literacy, therefore, points to the importance of Brazil as a cradle of antislavery as well as a sounding board for a war that reverberated in all corners of the African diaspora. Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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“God Save Me from a Civilized Indian”: Labor Union Schools and Contending Visions for Indigenous Education in Ecuador, 1936–1963
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Marlen Rosas Abstract From the 1930s to the 1960s, Indigenous activists in Ecuador unsettled the prevailing paradigm of acculturation, practicing literacies that advanced their capacities for political mobilization around labor and land rights. Leaders on the haciendas of Cayambe allied...
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Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcaycamayoc of Colonial Cuzco
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (4): 665–689.
Published: 01 November 2011
... out these men’s activities, examine the archives they made, and raise questions about their connections to quipu literacy. Andean notaries are presented as a kind of double-edged sword — as crucial intermediaries vis-à-vis the Spanish colonial bureaucracy who might work both for and against...
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Speaking of Sterilization: Rumors, the Urban Poor, and the Public Sphere in Greater Mexico City
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (2): 303–336.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to the rumors. Contrary to the claims of cultural and political elites, hearsay was not opposed to informed engagement but rather an integral component of it. As literacy, readerships, and political consciousness increased, so too did the efforts to understand and influence the news by talking about...
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Educando a Costa Rica: Alfabetización popular, formación docente y género (1880–1950)
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 800–801.
Published: 01 August 2001
... and independent. The first, by Molina Jiménez, is based on literacy statistics in Costa Rica and Nicaragua from 1880 to 1950 and analyzes regional, rural-urban, gender, and age differences. Among the interesting revelations is that literacy went down from 40.5 percent to 37.4 percent in Nicaragua from 1920...
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Everyday Reading: Print Culture and Collective Identity in the Río de la Plata, 1780–1910
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 314–315.
Published: 01 May 2013
...” in the Río de la Plata and suggests that it was not an accident that Argentina and Uru-guay have had the highest literacy rates in Latin America since the late nineteenth century. Acree defines everyday reading to include a wide variety of activities, from reading newspapers, being read to in pulperías...
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The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian Village’s Way with Writing
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 May 2013
... . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Simply put, The Lettered Mountain is a beautifully written book and a must read for those interested in multiple literacies, historiography, and ethnography, as well as colonial and contemporary Latin America. Rich in descriptive detail and analytically...
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