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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
... stakeholders and colonial officials alike. Depending on the situation, they cited naturally occurring or artificially modified border markers, or a mix thereof. They also deployed discursive frameworks that either dehistoricized markers as timeless givens or contextualized them as legitimate products...
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The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identification in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560–1640
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 471–499.
Published: 01 August 2009
... community). The indigenous men and women who utilized these terms had accumulated some of the social markers of colonial success—real estate, slaves, imported clothing, language, religion—and while they may have been few in number and unlikely to turn their world upside down, they saw themselves as having...
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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
... in the interpretive shadow of the Tzeltal Revolt, considering it in passing as a marker of rising discontent. In contrast, I examine the Santa Marta devotion in its own right, and not simply as a rebellious warm-up for the Tzeltal Revolt. This analysis illuminates three key factors in the dynamic formation...
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Construction of Maya Space: Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2025) 105 (1): 128–130.
Published: 01 February 2025
..., boundary markers, house lots, and features built inside caves (p. 3). The 14 chapters authored by 33 scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, mostly archaeologists, focus almost entirely on Maya sites in Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Belize (rather than Guatemala, Chiapas, or Honduras...
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Genetics and the History of Latin America
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 283–298.
Published: 01 May 2005
... subdivided to a level of resolution that can give us clues about events in a time horizon more consistent with that commonly employed by historians. 11 What can the geographic distribution of mtDNA variation teach us about the history of Latin America? Thus far, scholars have studied genetic markers...
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Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 519–520.
Published: 01 August 2014
... effectively utilized Yiddish material with an eye to understanding how Jews, in Jewish circles and with a Jewish audience in mind, understood and made sense of Argentina as well as its culture and identity markers. Her creative use of sources like advertisements, poems, and communal food menus, as well...
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New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (2): 388–390.
Published: 01 May 2004
... or intensified Nikkei identities, those where the effect has been erosive, and those where it has promoted hybrid, transnational, and cosmopolitan identities. But this commendable effort runs into a series of obstacles. Neither the editors nor the contributors attempt to define a specific set of markers...
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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
... Coffin , though rather brief in length, remains sufficiently dense to offer complex analysis of the interplay between European and indigenous modes of writing and of how, with the initiation of European contact with indigenous Americans, writing became an important “marker of reason and civilization...
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Birds of Empire, Birds of Nation: A History of Science, Economy, and Conservation in United States-Colombia Relations
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 156–157.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of nationhood by drawing on popular culture and other markers of identity. Natural history functioned as one of these markers, with the impressive number of bird species in Colombia becoming a source of national pride. Quintero Toro explores the role of science in presenting Colombia as a modern and “civilized...
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Hacia otra historia de América: Nuevas miradas sobre el cambio cultural y las relaciones interétnicas
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 2018
... in prescriptive analysis of indigenous transformation by focusing fetishistically on colonial markers of indigenous identity—religion, language, bodily habits, rituals, and traditional knowledge forms—to gauge levels of transformation among the cultures that they study. Advocates of indigenous cultural resistance...
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Family Photos, Oral Narratives, and Identity Formation: The Ukrainians of Berisso
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (1): 5–36.
Published: 01 February 2004
.... It seemed to us that the photograph symbolized the tension between two worlds: the modern and homogeneous (the suit) on the one hand and, on the other hand, markers of peasant, immigrant identity (muddy shoes, traditional shirt). Beyond that, his facial expression added, for us, a shocking element...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 203.
Published: 01 February 1969
... classifications, such as “type,” “style,” “horizon marker,” and “horizon style.” In addition, several conclusions are made about the process of ceramic distribution in the Southwest. Utilizing approximately 5715 tree-ring dates, 325 pottery “types” from 342 sites are tabulated and interpreted. The time period...
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A Beauty that Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 May 1997
... the papers purveyed was so confused, so contradictory, and so veiled as to bewilder rather than inform. The reasons acts were committed and the identities of the participants often remained a mystery; only the violence was clear. The one fairly reliable marker, as the author notes, was that the Left killed...
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The Decline of Community in Zinacantán: Economy, Public Life, and Social Stratification, 1960-1987
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 1994
... declined as a marker of status. Cancian describes these changes in a careful and detailed manner, and this description is the core of his study. Explanation is another matter. As the author notes: “I believe it is possible to be clear about what happened in Zinacantán, and not so clear about how...
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Pottery from, Spanish Shipwrecks, 1500–1800
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 659–660.
Published: 01 November 1995
... for the King of Spain (1986). Finally, the author’s careful compilation of how markings, rims, and vessel forms changed over time provides abundant new data that should make olive jars more useful as temporal markers at archaeological sites. Although the publishers should correct major glitches...
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La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States–Mexico Boundary, 1849–1857
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (4): 756–757.
Published: 01 November 2003
... and participants regarding the destruction or removal of boundary markers by Indians “in their hatred of everything American” or by “evil disposed white men” are left as anecdotes rather than as apertures onto deeper questions about the surveys and their (perceived) effects on local peoples. Perhaps most...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 February 1997
... of coca and chicha” (p. 148). Quoting from a diary kept by a European witness, Cornblit reports, “Rodríguez appeared in public dressed in indigenous robes, embroidered in gold, ‘consenting perhaps to be Túpac Amaru’s viceroy’ ” (p. 157). Such use of indigenous markers was surely calculated for Rodríguez...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 February 1997
... participated in guerrilla or underground activities in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Bolivia, but primarily in gender-typed roles as food suppliers and organizers of support in rural communities. They were constructed as nurturers and mothers. In Afghanistan, women became the markers of political goals...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (3): 556–557.
Published: 01 August 1999
... 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 After independence from Spain, the concepts of nation and national history became important to Mexican politicians and intellectuals. The public funding of the arts also gained importance as art came to be regarded as a marker of national culture...
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Los hijos del pecado: ilegitimidad y vida familiar en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 357–359.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., that in colonial Bogotá marriage functioned as a marker of status. Matrimony was limited mostly to a white elite who monopolized the civil and religious privileges it conferred. Cultural and legal norms of endogamy, in turn, reinforced the barriers among different racial and status groups that hardened in the late...
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