Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic tendency toward an overly narrow time frame, which highlights current relationships and conditions rather than long-term developments. The Rousing Drum takes a di…
Arriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún not only labored to supplant native religion with Christianity, he also gathered voluminous information on virtually every aspect of Aztec (Nahua) life in co…
"Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval document…
"Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval document…
To supplement the ethnographic literature on the Quechan tribe of the lower Colorado River, A.M. Halpern recorded three accounts of the Quechan mourning ceremony from native speakers in the Yuma language. These texts are presented in a prosodic line format with matching English …
Comment přvoir l'inconnu et contr̥ler l'inattendu? Les Anciens ont tenť de řpondre ̉ ces questions en interpřtant des signes dans lesquels il reconnaissaient des messages divins. Ce recueil permet de comparer la diversiť de leurs questionnements dans les socǐťs polytȟistes ou mono…
