Michael W Swanton
Biographic Data
| ID | 290042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Swanton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanton |
| SIGNATURE | SWANTON M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-0905-0342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mesoamerican mantic names as an etymological source of Mixtec vocabulary
This article examines the word histories of 12 nouns (eight zoonyms, two other lifeform names, and two toponyms) in Mixtec, a shallow or emergent language family of Mesoamerica. It argues that these nouns—now morphologically opaque—are fused compounds that arose from the Mixtec vocabulary of the mantic count of 260 days, a temporal organization that was part of the common cultural heritage of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican peoples. With the European c…
Mesoamerican Philology as an Interdisciplinary Study
This article is a diachronic investigation of a form of social organization of the Chochon (Xru Ngiwa, Chocholtec), a Mesoamerican people. Specifically, it is a philological examination of one form of a customary community subdivision, usually called sindi in Chochon and barrio in colonial Spanish. Thanks to the discovery of a remarkable set of colonial writings in the Chochon language from Tamazulapan (Oaxaca, Mexico)-complemented by secondary d…
Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
de Durand-Forest Jacqueline, Swanton Michael W. Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 84 n°2, 1998. pp. 9-19
Mesoamerican Philology as an Interdisciplinary Study
This article is a diachronic investigation of a form of social organization of the Chochon (Xru Ngiwa, Chocholtec), a Mesoamerican people. Specifically, it is a philological examination of one form of a customary community subdivision, usually called sindi in Chochon and barrio in colonial Spanish. Thanks to the discovery of a remarkable set of colonial writings in the Chochon language from Tamazulapan (Oaxaca, Mexico)-complemented by secondary d…
Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
de Durand-Forest Jacqueline, Swanton Michael W. Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 84 n°2, 1998. pp. 9-19
Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France
de Durand-Forest Jacqueline, Swanton Michael W. Un regard historique sur le fonds mexicain de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 84 n°2, 1998. pp. 9-19
Mesoamerican Philology as an Interdisciplinary Study
This article is a diachronic investigation of a form of social organization of the Chochon (Xru Ngiwa, Chocholtec), a Mesoamerican people. Specifically, it is a philological examination of one form of a customary community subdivision, usually called sindi in Chochon and barrio in colonial Spanish. Thanks to the discovery of a remarkable set of colonial writings in the Chochon language from Tamazulapan (Oaxaca, Mexico)-complemented by secondary d…
Mesoamerican mantic names as an etymological source of Mixtec vocabulary
This article examines the word histories of 12 nouns (eight zoonyms, two other lifeform names, and two toponyms) in Mixtec, a shallow or emergent language family of Mesoamerica. It argues that these nouns—now morphologically opaque—are fused compounds that arose from the Mixtec vocabulary of the mantic count of 260 days, a temporal organization that was part of the common cultural heritage of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican peoples. With the European c…
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