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The Usage of Nahuatl Kinship Terms in Polite Speech

open access: yesPoliteja, 2015
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 valoración de la lengua en hablantes bilingües náhuatl-español. Un estudio de caso / The valuation of the language in bilingual speakers (náhuatl-spanish.). A case study

open access: yesVivat Academia, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Náhuatl en el oriente del Estado de México

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2010
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
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review Essay: The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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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Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Theory of ecology of pressures as a tool for classifying language shift in bilingual communities

open access: yesOpen Linguistics
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Living in the Mycelial World

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Altérités intimes, altérités éloignées : la greffe du multiculturalisme en Amérique latine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
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

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2009
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
doaj   +1 more source

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