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kingship among the Miskito

American Ethnologist, 1984
The Miskito kings of eastern Nicaragua and Honduras have been described as British puppets whose authority depended solely on their role as middlemen. This paper suggests that the kings also may have been leaders of real stature in their own society, whose legitimacy was based on different cultural conceptions of leadership than those held by the ...
PHILIP A. DENNIS, MICHAEL D. OLIEN
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Developing Indigenous Leadership in Miskito Evangelization

Practical Anthropology, 1971
The author describes an approach to evangelization motivated both by the shortage of priests and by the need to be relevant in the Miskito setting. Native lay evangelizers, democratically selected by their own peoples, were given training in an institute to become leaders of local groups of believers. Because the men who merited and gained the respect
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Das „Herz der Miskitos“

1993
In einer druckend heisen Nacht im Februar 1991 fullten fast 800 Leute die katholische Kirche in Sandy Bay an Nicaraguas Miskito-Kuste. Kindern turnten auf der Empore herum, Erwachsene drangelten sich im Seitenschiff und zwischen den Banken, und alle Augen waren auf eine weise Wand neben dem Altar gerichtet, auf der nach jeden Klick leuchtend bunte ...
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Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture

1985
Miskito villages line the Atlantic coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras. Nietschmann (1973: 47) estimated the number of Miskito speakers in Nicaragua at 35,000 in the early 1970s, and the population has been increasing. “Miskito” is a cultural category more than a racial one. Long contact with outsiders has resulted in racial mixture with Europeans, creole
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THE MISKITO PINE SAVANNA OF NICARAGUA AND HONDURAS

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1955
(1955). THE MISKITO PINE SAVANNA OF NICARAGUA AND HONDURAS. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 36-63.
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Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito

Medical Anthropology, 1981
(1981). Part three: Grisi Siknis Among the Miskito. Medical Anthropology: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 445-505.
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An 18th-century novel from the Miskito Coast

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2014
William Williams (1727–1791) wrote a novel entitledMr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seamanabout an English sailor marooned on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, partly based on the author’s own experience. Internal linguistic evidence confirms that the castaway’s contact was with the Rama and Miskito Indians of this area.
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Sistemas agroforestales ancestrales indigenas Miskitos

2014
La Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte está ubicada en el Noreste de Nicaragua. La población es multiétnica con mayoría Miskitos y Sumu-Mayangna que viven en condición de pobreza o extrema pobreza. La práctica de la agricultura se proyecta como un medio de vida de las familias de menor rendimiento y para auto sustento.
Massolino F., PARDINI, ANDREA
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Interhousehold Meat Sharing among Mayangna and Miskito Horticulturalists in Nicaragua

Human Nature, 2011
Recent analyses of food sharing in small-scale societies indicate that reciprocal altruism maintains interhousehold food transfers, even among close kin. In this study, matrix-based regression methods are used to test the explanatory power of reciprocal altruism, kin selection, and tolerated scrounging.
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Ethnohistoire et identité: les Miskitos du Nicaragua

1992
Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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