Brian Stro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92147 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian Stro |
| NOMBRES | Brian |
| APELLIDO | Stro |
| FIRMA | STRO B |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests
Book Review| April 01 2014 Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala. By Deuss, Krystyna. (London: Guatemalan Maya Centre, 2007. 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohis…
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning veneration played an important role to the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica and Andean S…
"Cutting Old Life into New." Teeth Blackening in Western Amazonia
Anthropos , Seite 53 - 76
Falsetto voice and observational logic
Examples of falsetto and higher pitched modal voice are presented in which the meanings are linked iconically and/or indexically to the signs, and therefore nonarbitrarily. Nine such meaning types are identified and discussed as inferences about falsetto derivable from observations that are minimally informed by cultural traditions. Observational knowledge and the logic by which it is utilized are seen as central concepts mediating universals and…
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs
Book Review| April 01 2011 The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, the Codical Texts The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, The Codical Texts. By Macri, Martha J. and Vail, Gabrielle. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. $65.00 cloth.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1163154 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Black Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2010 Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times Edited by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xvii + 278 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 764–766. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-055 Cite Icon…
Kitchenspace
Book Review| October 01 2009 Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico By Maria Elisa Christie. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $50.00 cloth.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 756–758. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Stros…
Maya Calendar Origins
Book Review| October 01 2008 Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, references, index. $27.95 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 693–695. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-030 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth A. Newsome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xx. 294 pp
The Hybrid Metaphor
This article introduces and briefly discusses a few conceptual considerations common to biological and cultural hybridity and examines the biological concept of "hybrid vigor" as it can be applied to the cultural realm of hybridity, illustrating this with a hybrid form of communication in cyberspace. The notion of a hybridity cycle is introduced, along with stages in the cycle whereby a hybrid form becomes a purebred and then parent of another hy…
The Mesoamerican Cosmic Portal
Maize and Fish
Maize and Blood
Classic Maya Directional Glyphs
The Classic Maya living in Southern Mesoamerica during the first millennium A.D. used a hieroglyphic writing system that included four directional glyphs. Scholars have differed with regard to the specific readings of these glyphs as well as on the question of whether they refer to the sun's path (east, zenith, west, nadir) or instead to the cardinal directions (east, north, west, south). Evidence bearing on the latter question is presented here,…
Linguistic Anthropology
Palenque
The language of Zuyua
Colonial-period documents pertaining to both highland and lowland Mayan groups refer to a place called Zuyua, or Zuiva, from whence came some of their ancestral nobility. This place has been identified with an area on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and is associated with the postclassic Toltec presence among the Mayans. A chapter of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel is devoted to an interrogation in the form of riddles in the "language of Zuyua," the unders…
Gossip in ethnography
John Beard Haviland. Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 260 pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00
Quichean Linguistic Prehistory. Lyle Campbell
Linguistics
Tzeltal Marriage by Capture
The incidence of wife kidnapping in a highland Maya community is examined as an alternative marriage form which allows socially handicapped males the opportunity to participate in community service through a civil-religious hierarchy of married men. Bride price requirements, institutionalized sexual antagonism, and cargo participation dependent on marital status are seen as sufficient conditions to legitimize bride capture in the community. Curre…
Linguistics
Reconstructed Humor in a Tzeltal Ritual Formula
Social Structure and Role Allocation in Tzeltal Oral Literature
ONE WAY OF WORKING TOWARD THE GOAL Of constructing an adequate ethnographic description of a society is to provide a delineation of what one needs to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members and to do so in any culturally specifiable social role.2 Put this way, the goal of the anthropologist doing an ethnographic study appears to differ only in degree from that of the child being socialized to community norms. But…
Linguistics
relationship that reject Swadesh's classifications, and developing a more satisfactory theory to account for the evidenceall of which Swadesh would no doubt have been delighted to see.And if past performance is any guide, when all the evidence is in he may well turn out to have been right again
The Hybrid Metaphor
This article introduces and briefly discusses a few conceptual considerations common to biological and cultural hybridity and examines the biological concept of "hybrid vigor" as it can be applied to the cultural realm of hybridity, illustrating this with a hybrid form of communication in cyberspace. The notion of a hybridity cycle is introduced, along with stages in the cycle whereby a hybrid form becomes a purebred and then parent of another hy…
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning veneration played an important role to the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica and Andean S…
Maize and Fish
The language of Zuyua
Colonial-period documents pertaining to both highland and lowland Mayan groups refer to a place called Zuyua, or Zuiva, from whence came some of their ancestral nobility. This place has been identified with an area on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and is associated with the postclassic Toltec presence among the Mayans. A chapter of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel is devoted to an interrogation in the form of riddles in the "language of Zuyua," the unders…
Classic Maya Directional Glyphs
The Classic Maya living in Southern Mesoamerica during the first millennium A.D. used a hieroglyphic writing system that included four directional glyphs. Scholars have differed with regard to the specific readings of these glyphs as well as on the question of whether they refer to the sun's path (east, zenith, west, nadir) or instead to the cardinal directions (east, north, west, south). Evidence bearing on the latter question is presented here,…
Tzeltal Marriage by Capture
The incidence of wife kidnapping in a highland Maya community is examined as an alternative marriage form which allows socially handicapped males the opportunity to participate in community service through a civil-religious hierarchy of married men. Bride price requirements, institutionalized sexual antagonism, and cargo participation dependent on marital status are seen as sufficient conditions to legitimize bride capture in the community. Curre…
Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests
Book Review| April 01 2014 Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests: Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala. By Deuss, Krystyna. (London: Guatemalan Maya Centre, 2007. 334 pp., preface, introduction, figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohis…
Falsetto voice and observational logic
Examples of falsetto and higher pitched modal voice are presented in which the meanings are linked iconically and/or indexically to the signs, and therefore nonarbitrarily. Nine such meaning types are identified and discussed as inferences about falsetto derivable from observations that are minimally informed by cultural traditions. Observational knowledge and the logic by which it is utilized are seen as central concepts mediating universals and…
The Mesoamerican Cosmic Portal
Gossip in ethnography
John Beard Haviland. Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 260 pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00
"Cutting Old Life into New." Teeth Blackening in Western Amazonia
Anthropos , Seite 53 - 76
Maize and Blood
Serial Order in Nez Perce Myths
THIS PAPER PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS of some of the order relations that may be found within a corpus of Nez Perce myths. Factors influencing the production of sequencing in the determination of individual series are assigned to categories. To use a linguistic analogy, this is an attempt to describe the syntax of content and to explain it, as well, in order to demonstrate the utility of an approach to folklore that focuses on the importance of serial …
Reconstructed Humor in a Tzeltal Ritual Formula
Social Structure and Role Allocation in Tzeltal Oral Literature
ONE WAY OF WORKING TOWARD THE GOAL Of constructing an adequate ethnographic description of a society is to provide a delineation of what one needs to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members and to do so in any culturally specifiable social role.2 Put this way, the goal of the anthropologist doing an ethnographic study appears to differ only in degree from that of the child being socialized to community norms. But…
Linguistics
relationship that reject Swadesh's classifications, and developing a more satisfactory theory to account for the evidenceall of which Swadesh would no doubt have been delighted to see.And if past performance is any guide, when all the evidence is in he may well turn out to have been right again
Tzeltal Marriage by Capture
The incidence of wife kidnapping in a highland Maya community is examined as an alternative marriage form which allows socially handicapped males the opportunity to participate in community service through a civil-religious hierarchy of married men. Bride price requirements, institutionalized sexual antagonism, and cargo participation dependent on marital status are seen as sufficient conditions to legitimize bride capture in the community. Curre…
Linguistics
Linguistics
Gossip in ethnography
John Beard Haviland. Gossip, Reputation, and Knowledge in Zinacantan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xiii + 260 pp. Tables, diagrams, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00
Quichean Linguistic Prehistory. Lyle Campbell
The language of Zuyua
Colonial-period documents pertaining to both highland and lowland Mayan groups refer to a place called Zuyua, or Zuiva, from whence came some of their ancestral nobility. This place has been identified with an area on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and is associated with the postclassic Toltec presence among the Mayans. A chapter of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel is devoted to an interrogation in the form of riddles in the "language of Zuyua," the unders…
Palenque
Linguistic Anthropology
Classic Maya Directional Glyphs
The Classic Maya living in Southern Mesoamerica during the first millennium A.D. used a hieroglyphic writing system that included four directional glyphs. Scholars have differed with regard to the specific readings of these glyphs as well as on the question of whether they refer to the sun's path (east, zenith, west, nadir) or instead to the cardinal directions (east, north, west, south). Evidence bearing on the latter question is presented here,…
Maize and Blood
Maize and Fish
The Mesoamerican Cosmic Portal
The Hybrid Metaphor
This article introduces and briefly discusses a few conceptual considerations common to biological and cultural hybridity and examines the biological concept of "hybrid vigor" as it can be applied to the cultural realm of hybridity, illustrating this with a hybrid form of communication in cyberspace. The notion of a hybridity cycle is introduced, along with stages in the cycle whereby a hybrid form becomes a purebred and then parent of another hy…
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Elizabeth A. Newsome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. xx. 294 pp
Maya Calendar Origins
Book Review| October 01 2008 Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time By Prudence M. Rice. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 268 pp., preface, introduction, maps, figures, notes, references, index. $27.95 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (4): 693–695. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-030 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Kitchenspace
Book Review| October 01 2009 Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico By Maria Elisa Christie. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. $50.00 cloth.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 756–758. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brian Stros…
Black Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2010 Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times Edited by Ben Vinson III and Matthew Restall. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xvii + 278 pp., introduction, maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $27.95 paper.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 764–766. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-055 Cite Icon…
The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs
Book Review| April 01 2011 The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, the Codical Texts The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume 2, The Codical Texts. By Macri, Martha J. and Vail, Gabrielle. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. $65.00 cloth.) Brian Stross Brian Stross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 343–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1163154 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica
Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth. Similarly, lightning veneration played an important role to the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica and Andean S…
"Cutting Old Life into New." Teeth Blackening in Western Amazonia
Anthropos , Seite 53 - 76
Falsetto voice and observational logic
Examples of falsetto and higher pitched modal voice are presented in which the meanings are linked iconically and/or indexically to the signs, and therefore nonarbitrarily. Nine such meaning types are identified and discussed as inferences about falsetto derivable from observations that are minimally informed by cultural traditions. Observational knowledge and the logic by which it is utilized are seen as central concepts mediating universals and…
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