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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (1): 127.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Michael Edmondson The Sky in Mayan Literature . By Aveni Anthony F. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index, x, 297 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The major objective of this compilation...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 February 1977
...Bernard L. Fontana Ácoma. Pueblo in the Sky . By Minge Ward Alan . Albuquerque , 1976 . University of New Mexico Press . Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 180 . Cloth. $12.95 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 One of nineteen Pueblo Indian...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 767–768.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Ione S. Weight The Perilous Sky: U. S. Aviation Diplomacy and Latin America, 1919-1931 . By Newton Wesley Phillips . Coral Gables , 1978 . University of Miami Press . Map. Appendixes. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 457 . Cloth . $20.00 . Copyright 1979 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 537–563.
Published: 01 August 2000
... at Couto Magalhães, whose model Indians had been praised a year before, fretted over their dissatisfaction with the new reservation: The Indians, notwithstanding our explanations, reaffirm that their lands go until “where the earth touches the sky,” that they do not want cerrados (savanna) nor...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1928) 8 (1): 116.
Published: 01 February 1928
... Copyright 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 Ácoma, the Sky City: a Study in Pueblo-Indian History and Civilization . By Sedgwick William T. Mrs. . ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1927 . Pp. xiv , 318 . Illus. $4.00 .) ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1950) 30 (4): 525.
Published: 01 November 1950
...David A. Baerreis Sun in the Sky . By O’Kane Walter Collins . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1950 . Pp. xvii , 259 . $4.00 .) Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Miguel León-Portilla The Phoenix of the Western World: Quetzalcoatl and the Sky Religion . By Brundage Burr Cartwright . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1981 . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 349 . Cloth . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 377–378.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Chandra D. Bhimull Conquistadors of the Sky: A History of Aviation in Latin America . By Hagedorn Dan . Washington, DC : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum / Gainesville : In association with the University Press of Florida , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables...
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in Runway Hospitality: Air Jamaica's “Rare Tropical Birds” and the Embodied Gender and Race Politics of Tourism, 1966–1980
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 4. Sky Writings (Kingston), June 1975, p. 5.
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 4. Sky Writings (Kingston), June 1975, p. 5. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 691–693.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., in the Codex Borgia the sky god is drawn sitting back to back with Mictlantecutli, the god of death and the underworld. The two deities thus embody the contrary forces that governed the human universe. Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl was usually venerated in circular temples, and nowhere more so than in Mexico...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1986) 66 (3): 626–627.
Published: 01 August 1986
.... They are “eaters of men,” stealing their souls. They control certain animals which must be eaten only after being decontaminated by shamans. The bope live in the sky. They are partially controlled by bari shamans who, possessed by bope spirits, attempt to cure illness and misfortune caused by them. Bari...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 510–511.
Published: 01 August 2021
... “speech of the elders” ( huehuetlatolli ) in book 6 (analyzed by Favrot Peterson and others). Examples of difrasismo are addressed in Olivier's discussion of connections between notions of sacredness and water, including the central Nahua concept of “water-fire” ( atl-tlachinolli ) and the joining of sky...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 199.
Published: 01 February 1969
... up from the most remote stars”; he invites us to sail “in the blue sky” and kindly suggests that we “jump from one spiral nebula to another always searching for the truth” (p. 308). It is difficult to decide whether this book review should have been entrusted to a historian, a poet, a philosopher...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (3): 452–453.
Published: 01 August 1992
... avalanche of details—and he delivers them all, relentlessly. He adds many more trees, but the sky is lost. If he believes in the old adage that scholarship must be boring, then he has succeeded. This is a very boring book. Karlen uses no new sources. He relies on U.S. archives and, to a lesser extent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (2): 233.
Published: 01 May 1964
.... The two sexes, hero twins, sky and earth, coast and hill country, the sharp edge separating life and death, all give this thought a dualistic aspect. “Fagotación” or organic decay is the eternal return of other systems. Despite the disappointing aspects of this work, we need more books like this so...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (2): 335–336.
Published: 01 May 1965
... of Columbus, Núñez de Balboa, Cortés, Magellen, Coronado and includes some detail concerning New Mexico. Section II, entitled Specimen Pioneers, details the feats of Cabeza de Vaca, of little known Andrés Docampo, of the siege and fall of the sky city of Ácoma, of the Spanish missionaries, and of Alvarado’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 751–752.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Herrera and what Ramírez regarded as pie-in-the-sky unrealistic Liberals shared alike his scorn. Ramírez was more than just another laissez-faire liberal theorist; he was one of the few genuine social liberals of his generation. Ramírez correctly pointed out that Mexico’s government lacked...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 767–768.
Published: 01 November 1996
... to rain), year bearers (depicting the 52-year cycle with primary focus on maize), weather, the spirit world, and constellations. The “signs of the night” identified in the codex, for example, “present a visual tableau of Maya constellations that were yet another class of spirit beings —forces in the sky...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (3): 527–528.
Published: 01 August 2014
... this book is the aesthetic nature of the arpillera. Adams mentions that they are rather uniform, that they are the same size and often depict a sky. The description of the arpillera makes the art form almost synonymous with uniformity. As a researcher and author of two book-length studies on the arpillera...
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