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Interhousehold Meat Sharing among Mayangna and Miskito Horticulturalists in Nicaragua
Human Nature, 2011Recent 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.
Jeremy M. Koster
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An 18th-century novel from the Miskito Coast
English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2014William 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.
J. Holm
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The discourse of romantic love on the Miskito Coast
Agenda, 2013abstract This Article examines the sentiment of love among the indigenous Miskitu people along along the Honduran and Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. Miskitu women historically have held high positions of power in their matrilocal society. Since the lobster-diving industry began in the 1970s, however, gender and power relations have shifted, rendering ...
L. Herlihy
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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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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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The Miskito Pine Savanna of Nicaragua and Honduras*
Hispanic Lands and Peoples, 2019openaire +2 more sources
Developing Indigenous Leadership in Miskito Evangelization
Practical Anthropology, 1971The 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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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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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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