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Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed a literary revival in the Indigenous languages of the region known canonically as “Latin America.” Across this varied corpus, a major theme is the cultural significance of maize.
Charles M. Pigott
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Communicative Strategies and Text Types in the Selection of Amerindian Voices in the 16th Century (1518-1559) [PDF]
Después de la conquista del Caribe se abre el periodo de contacto de la lengua española con idiomas autóctonos consolidados, etapa en la que se va a dirimir la aclimatación lingüística en el continente americano.
Bravo-García, Eva +1 more
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Borderlads Biliteracies Abstract ABSTRACT In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti‐colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools.
Idalia Nuñez +2 more
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El problema de quauh- en quauhpilli, quauhtlatoani y palabras parecidas
En este artículo se discute el significado del elemento quauh- en las palabras quauhpilli, quauhtlatoani, etcétera, que han sido interpretadas tradicionalmente como “noble” y “soberano” –respectivamente– “de (o por) milicia (o guerra)”, es decir, por ...
Ryszard Tomicki
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT
ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
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El toltecatl en tres obras de Miguel León-Portilla: Humanismo y nacionalismo
En este ensayo se revisa la interpretación de Miguel León-Portilla con respecto a la concepción náhuatl del arte. En tres de sus obras (La filosofía náhuatl, Los antiguos mexicanos a través de sus crónicas y cantares y Toltecayotl. Aspectos de la cultura
Manuel Alberto Morales Damián +1 more
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El artículo presenta el análisis de un caso concreto del momento inicial de transculturación pedagógica y traducción cultural propiciada por los colegios franciscanos de San José de los Naturales y Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco en el virreinato de la Nueva ...
Víctor Manuel Sanchis Amat
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Biopiracy and beauty brands? patent trends of cosmetics and skin care companies
Abstract Concerns about the fairness and equity of ‘biodiscovery’ research endure despite the creation of legal frameworks designed to regulate access and benefit sharing involving genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. While some industries that engage in biodiscovery have been the subject of sustained scrutiny, others have received ...
David J. Jefferson, Daniel F. Robinson
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A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order
Abstract Harmonic word order is a well‐established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head‐dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome of word‐class frequencies, where the purported “head” is the most frequently instantiated word class in a ...
John Mansfield, Lothar Sebastian Krapp
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