Magnus Pharao Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 118147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magnus Pharao Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magnus Pharao |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8847-3704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing
The culture that thrived at Teotihuacan in the Classic period has a unique place in Mesoamerican history. Today, it is held as an emblem of the Mexican national past and is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the Americas. Nevertheless, curious visitors are told that the ethnic and linguistic affiliation of the Teotihuacanos remains unknown. Whereas the decipherment of other Mesoamerican writing systems has provided a wealth of inform…
Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico
Sapir's Law and the Role of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto-Corachol-Nahuan
Aztlán and Mexican Transnationalism: Language, Nation, and History
Authenticity
Authenticity, the evaluation of whether a claim about identity is to be considered genuine or not, is central to the study of social processes. It is a metasemiotic process in which an agent interprets a set of indexes as being sufficient to classifying an object as a genuine token of a given class. But it is also a social process in which authorities, invested with power, claim the authoritative knowledge and associated rights to authenticate id…
Environmental adaptation in language: Spatial grammar, landscape knowledge and human survival
We argue that the human ability to linguistically describe spatial locations, relations and paths is likely to contribute importantly to human survival, and that consequently the relation between linguistic elements and structures used in spatial reference, and the environment in which humans navigate, ought to be of concern for evolutionary studies of language. We make the case for systematically studying the correspondences between the structur…
Becoming Autonomous: Indigeneity, Scale, and Schismogenesis in Multicultural Mexico
Four towns in the state of Morelos, Mexico, are lobbying the state government for the right to become independent "indigenous municipalities" operating under local customary law. Focusing on one of those towns, Hueyapan, this article ethnographically and ethnohistorically examines the process that has led the people of Hueyapan to overwhelmingly favor the decision to opt for municipal independence. In doing so, it attends particularly to the ways…
Teotamachilizti: An analysis of the language in a Nahua sermon from colonial Guatemala
The article analyses the document teotamachilizti, a sermon in a Nahuan language from colonial Guatemala. It concludes that the language is a Central Nahuan language closely related to "classical Nahuatl", but with some features of an Eastern Nahuan language closely related to Pipil Nawat. It is suggested that the document was written by an ecclesiastic who was schooled in Central Mexican Nahuatl, but who was adapting the sermon to a local audien…
The Difference Language Makes: The Life-History of Nahuatl in Two Mexican Families
In this article, I describe two families from two different Mexican communities where the Nahuatl language is spoken. In both families the parental generation speaks Nahuatl as a first language, but the way that the adult children use and relate to the language varies widely between the families and between the individual siblings within a family. Some master the language and have made the language an important source of identity and livelihood, …
Writing Irataba: On Representing Native Americans on Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is simultaneously an experiment in anarchic knowledge production and a realization of the long dream of modernity: storing all human knowledge. It is also a battleground for the politics of representation and for creating and circulating realities and "Wikialities." I ethnographically describe how Wikipedians, most of whom are white Anglo-Americans, negotiate the representation of Native Am…
Where the river ends. Contested indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta by Muehlmann, Shaylih: Reviews
Becoming Mapuche , by Course, Magnus: Reviews
Belonging together. Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian indigenous policy , by Sullivan, Patrick: Reviews
Nahuatl among Jehovah's Witnesses of Hueyapan, Morelos: A Case of Spontaneous Revitalization
The sociolinguistic situation of Hueyapan, Morelos, is similar to those described in other studies of modern Nahua communities: the language is in a rapid process of decline. This article describes the situation within one particular subcommunity of the town: the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Here the Nahuatl language has experienced a revival within the last five years, to a degree where congregational meetings are now held mostly in Nahu…
The Difference Language Makes: The Life-History of Nahuatl in Two Mexican Families
In this article, I describe two families from two different Mexican communities where the Nahuatl language is spoken. In both families the parental generation speaks Nahuatl as a first language, but the way that the adult children use and relate to the language varies widely between the families and between the individual siblings within a family. Some master the language and have made the language an important source of identity and livelihood, …
Writing Irataba: On Representing Native Americans on Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is simultaneously an experiment in anarchic knowledge production and a realization of the long dream of modernity: storing all human knowledge. It is also a battleground for the politics of representation and for creating and circulating realities and "Wikialities." I ethnographically describe how Wikipedians, most of whom are white Anglo-Americans, negotiate the representation of Native Am…
Becoming Autonomous: Indigeneity, Scale, and Schismogenesis in Multicultural Mexico
Four towns in the state of Morelos, Mexico, are lobbying the state government for the right to become independent "indigenous municipalities" operating under local customary law. Focusing on one of those towns, Hueyapan, this article ethnographically and ethnohistorically examines the process that has led the people of Hueyapan to overwhelmingly favor the decision to opt for municipal independence. In doing so, it attends particularly to the ways…
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing
The culture that thrived at Teotihuacan in the Classic period has a unique place in Mesoamerican history. Today, it is held as an emblem of the Mexican national past and is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the Americas. Nevertheless, curious visitors are told that the ethnic and linguistic affiliation of the Teotihuacanos remains unknown. Whereas the decipherment of other Mesoamerican writing systems has provided a wealth of inform…
Sapir's Law and the Role of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto-Corachol-Nahuan
Nahuatl among Jehovah's Witnesses of Hueyapan, Morelos: A Case of Spontaneous Revitalization
The sociolinguistic situation of Hueyapan, Morelos, is similar to those described in other studies of modern Nahua communities: the language is in a rapid process of decline. This article describes the situation within one particular subcommunity of the town: the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Here the Nahuatl language has experienced a revival within the last five years, to a degree where congregational meetings are now held mostly in Nahu…
Becoming Mapuche , by Course, Magnus: Reviews
Belonging together. Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian indigenous policy , by Sullivan, Patrick: Reviews
Where the river ends. Contested indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta by Muehlmann, Shaylih: Reviews
Teotamachilizti: An analysis of the language in a Nahua sermon from colonial Guatemala
The article analyses the document teotamachilizti, a sermon in a Nahuan language from colonial Guatemala. It concludes that the language is a Central Nahuan language closely related to "classical Nahuatl", but with some features of an Eastern Nahuan language closely related to Pipil Nawat. It is suggested that the document was written by an ecclesiastic who was schooled in Central Mexican Nahuatl, but who was adapting the sermon to a local audien…
The Difference Language Makes: The Life-History of Nahuatl in Two Mexican Families
In this article, I describe two families from two different Mexican communities where the Nahuatl language is spoken. In both families the parental generation speaks Nahuatl as a first language, but the way that the adult children use and relate to the language varies widely between the families and between the individual siblings within a family. Some master the language and have made the language an important source of identity and livelihood, …
Writing Irataba: On Representing Native Americans on Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is simultaneously an experiment in anarchic knowledge production and a realization of the long dream of modernity: storing all human knowledge. It is also a battleground for the politics of representation and for creating and circulating realities and "Wikialities." I ethnographically describe how Wikipedians, most of whom are white Anglo-Americans, negotiate the representation of Native Am…
Becoming Autonomous: Indigeneity, Scale, and Schismogenesis in Multicultural Mexico
Four towns in the state of Morelos, Mexico, are lobbying the state government for the right to become independent "indigenous municipalities" operating under local customary law. Focusing on one of those towns, Hueyapan, this article ethnographically and ethnohistorically examines the process that has led the people of Hueyapan to overwhelmingly favor the decision to opt for municipal independence. In doing so, it attends particularly to the ways…
Aztlán and Mexican Transnationalism: Language, Nation, and History
Authenticity
Authenticity, the evaluation of whether a claim about identity is to be considered genuine or not, is central to the study of social processes. It is a metasemiotic process in which an agent interprets a set of indexes as being sufficient to classifying an object as a genuine token of a given class. But it is also a social process in which authorities, invested with power, claim the authoritative knowledge and associated rights to authenticate id…
Environmental adaptation in language: Spatial grammar, landscape knowledge and human survival
We argue that the human ability to linguistically describe spatial locations, relations and paths is likely to contribute importantly to human survival, and that consequently the relation between linguistic elements and structures used in spatial reference, and the environment in which humans navigate, ought to be of concern for evolutionary studies of language. We make the case for systematically studying the correspondences between the structur…
Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico
Sapir's Law and the Role of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto-Corachol-Nahuan
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing
The culture that thrived at Teotihuacan in the Classic period has a unique place in Mesoamerican history. Today, it is held as an emblem of the Mexican national past and is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the Americas. Nevertheless, curious visitors are told that the ethnic and linguistic affiliation of the Teotihuacanos remains unknown. Whereas the decipherment of other Mesoamerican writing systems has provided a wealth of inform…
Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Nahuatl (4 works)