C Jacobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 12045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Jacobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6780-8026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spaniards kill, Aztecs sacrifice: A figment of missionary translation
Spanish accounts from sixteenth-century colonial New Spain relate that the Aztecs “sacrificed” humans. But did a semantics of “sacrificial” killing actually exist in the Aztec language Nahuatl, or is this notion rather a figment of translation? This question is examined in four steps. First, the article discusses the production of missionary dictionaries and the translation order they represented. Second, it shows how missionaries sought to conve…
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept
Images and texts in Spanish colonial manuscripts tell us that the Aztecs sacrificed humans. Among these sources, none has received a more iconic documentary status than the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún’s tlamictiliztli account. This combines graphic depiction with text in Spanish and the Aztec language Nahuatl. Although Sahagún’s account is compelling and persuasive, its seeming realism dissipates when the analytical focus turns fr…
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico
For decades, indigenist anthropology has been considered indefensible in Mexico. Its conception of Indigeneity persists, however, as a resource for national heritage and identity construction. This article analyses works on Indigenous peoples by prominent Mexican scholars and traces their links to contemporary heritage narratives and practices. It discusses how a national anthropological historiography, embedded in a secularizing ideology and sta…
Who Copied Whom: Alonso de Molina and the vocabulary appended to Andrés de Olmos’ Arte (1547) of Nahuatl
Is the vocabulary appended to a late copy of the Franciscan missionary Andrés de Olmos' grammar of Nauatl from 1547 an addendum produced by the same author, thus constituting the earliest known lexicographic work of colonial America? By reviewing the debate surrounding this vocabulary found in the so-called Fischer (Tulane, or TULAL) manuscript and examining it using new insights into dictionary-making in the early modern world, I argue that it p…
Busdrivers in Israel: An Anomaly of Occupational Status and its Explanation
Care and cleanliness of the environment in public places: A survey of Kibbutzim in Israel
It is argued that the problems of environmental pollution, and those of the inadequacy of formal social control mechanisms in contemporary societies are the unintended dysfunctional consequences of two separate but interrelated clusters of change processes. Consequently, solutions to the former require a thorough study of the latter in their relation to behaviour of individuals vis a vis the physical environment in public places. A survey of all …
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico
For decades, indigenist anthropology has been considered indefensible in Mexico. Its conception of Indigeneity persists, however, as a resource for national heritage and identity construction. This article analyses works on Indigenous peoples by prominent Mexican scholars and traces their links to contemporary heritage narratives and practices. It discusses how a national anthropological historiography, embedded in a secularizing ideology and sta…
Care and cleanliness of the environment in public places: A survey of Kibbutzim in Israel
It is argued that the problems of environmental pollution, and those of the inadequacy of formal social control mechanisms in contemporary societies are the unintended dysfunctional consequences of two separate but interrelated clusters of change processes. Consequently, solutions to the former require a thorough study of the latter in their relation to behaviour of individuals vis a vis the physical environment in public places. A survey of all …
Busdrivers in Israel: An Anomaly of Occupational Status and its Explanation
Who Copied Whom: Alonso de Molina and the vocabulary appended to Andrés de Olmos’ Arte (1547) of Nahuatl
Is the vocabulary appended to a late copy of the Franciscan missionary Andrés de Olmos' grammar of Nauatl from 1547 an addendum produced by the same author, thus constituting the earliest known lexicographic work of colonial America? By reviewing the debate surrounding this vocabulary found in the so-called Fischer (Tulane, or TULAL) manuscript and examining it using new insights into dictionary-making in the early modern world, I argue that it p…
Missionary Methodology and the Making of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Decolonizing a Concept
Images and texts in Spanish colonial manuscripts tell us that the Aztecs sacrificed humans. Among these sources, none has received a more iconic documentary status than the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún’s tlamictiliztli account. This combines graphic depiction with text in Spanish and the Aztec language Nahuatl. Although Sahagún’s account is compelling and persuasive, its seeming realism dissipates when the analytical focus turns fr…
Does being Indigenous imply being religious? Anthropology, heritage, and historiography in Mexico
For decades, indigenist anthropology has been considered indefensible in Mexico. Its conception of Indigeneity persists, however, as a resource for national heritage and identity construction. This article analyses works on Indigenous peoples by prominent Mexican scholars and traces their links to contemporary heritage narratives and practices. It discusses how a national anthropological historiography, embedded in a secularizing ideology and sta…
Spaniards kill, Aztecs sacrifice: A figment of missionary translation
Spanish accounts from sixteenth-century colonial New Spain relate that the Aztecs “sacrificed” humans. But did a semantics of “sacrificial” killing actually exist in the Aztec language Nahuatl, or is this notion rather a figment of translation? This question is examined in four steps. First, the article discusses the production of missionary dictionaries and the translation order they represented. Second, it shows how missionaries sought to conve…
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