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The Usage of Nahuatl Kinship Terms in Polite Speech
Nahuatl kin terms are known to be employed in a vast array of metaphoric meanings, whose cultural point of reference is different than the basis of European metaphors.
Julia Madajczak
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La vitalidad de una lengua depende de sus hablantes, pero ¿qué sucede cuándo los hablantes deciden ya no hacer uso de ella? En este artículo se reportan los primeros resultados del análisis realizado a entrevistas de hablantes bilingües ¾náhuatl ...
Cinthia Jazmín López Nájera +2 more
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Náhuatl en el oriente del Estado de México
Esta es la segunda parte de una serie de estudios sobre la lengua náhuatl. En esta ocasión, se visitaron setenta y nueve poblaciones de treinta y un municipios de la parte oriente del Estado de México, de las que se discute su abundancia, rareza o total ...
Clementina Yolanda Lastra García +1 more
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Book Review Essay: The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain [PDF]
This essay reviews the following works: Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 276. $55.00 cloth.
Matthew, Laura E.
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Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys +4 more
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Theory of ecology of pressures as a tool for classifying language shift in bilingual communities
This article examines the stage of language shift in Tlaxco (Santiago Tlaxco), a bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish-speaking community in Puebla, Mexico. We employ the theory of ecology of pressure framework to identify and analyze the pressures that favor or ...
Gomashie Grace A., Terborg Roland
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Twins in Mesoamerica as a Symbol of Contrasting Duality [PDF]
In cultures across the Mesoamerican subcontinent, there are examples in the archaeological and ethnographic record of myths concerned with twins and sibling pairs (Minneci, 1999).
Rideout, Benjamin
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Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Altérités intimes, altérités éloignées : la greffe du multiculturalisme en Amérique latine [PDF]
Siège des Nations unies, New York, 13 septembre 2007. L’assemblée générale des Nations unies émet une résolution par laquelle elle adopte une Déclaration sur les droits des peuples autochtones qui, sans définir ce qu’est un peuple autochtone et sans être
Lopez Caballero, Paula
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Dialectología náhuatl del Distrito Federal
Trata sobre los resultados de aplicar un cuestionario elaborado, en una versión preliminar, por el Departamento de Lingüística del INAH y el Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la UNAM en cinco pueblos del Distrito Federal y uno en Texcoco de ...
Clementina Yolanda Lastra García
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