CHOROTEGA

chōrōtāˈgä, aboriginal people and language group of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Little is known of the Chorotega, primarily beause of the absence of extensive ruins. Contemporaneous with the Maya to the northwest, they inhabited principally the Ulúa River valley and the Mosquito Coast. With other tribes to the south and the Chibcha of Colombia, they formed a cultural link between the peoples of the Andean area and those of Mexico. The Chorotega were probably democratic, with a chief chosen by elected council. Chorotega culture became extinct in the Spanish colonial period.

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Voices of Migrants: Rural-Urban Migration in Costa Rica
Book by Paul Kutsche; University Press of Florida, 1994
Subjects: Migration, Internal--Costa Rica, Rural-Urban Migration--Costa Rica, Urbanization--Costa Rica
...Preston 1988:22 . 6. The regions of Chorotega and Pacifico Central sent the highest...of the shift away from agriculture hit Chorotega particularly hard. This region, which...supported it. In labor terms, however, Chorotega has shifted from labor-intensive to...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 3
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...America Linguistic Area. During the 9th century, speakers of Chorotega, an Otomanguean language, took over most of northwestern...of the indigenous languages. During the colonial times, Chorotega and Huetar became ex- tinct, the most intense colonization...
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The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples
Book by George Kubler; Penguin Books, 1962
Subjects: Indian Architecture, Indian Art, Indians--Antiquities, Latin America--Antiquities
...enshrined two tribal terms in Central American archaeology: Chorotega, referring to the 'Mexican' groups along the Pacific coast...regions with drainage into the Caribbean. Anterior to both the Chorotega and Guetar tribes were peoples bearing a distinctive and unified...
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Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica: Learning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest
Book by Gordon W. Frankie, Alfonso Mata, S. Bradleigh Vinson; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Biological Diversity Conservation--Costa Rica, Forest Ecology--Costa Rica
...Choeronycteris mexicana, 161 , 162 Choloepus hoffmanni, 50 Chondrohierax uncinatus, 156 Choreja, 59 Chorotega people, hunting habits of, 55 56 Chorotega region, 8 , 118 biodiversity in, 118 hydrogeology of, 6 land-use imbalances in, 6 life zones...
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Primitive Art
Book by Erwin O. Christensen; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1955
Subjects: Art, Primitive
...surfaces may reflect the markings of the jaguars pelt. A Chorotega metate, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a projecting...thinness, which is vigorous at the same time, relates the Chorotega metate stylistically to the Guetar type. A granite slab figure...
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journal articles on: Chorotega  - 4 results

 
 
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The Curious Question of Feminising Poverty in Costa Rica: the Importance of Gendered Subjectivities
Journal article by Sylvia Chant; LSE Gender Institute. New Working Paper Series, 2008
Subjects: Costa Rica, Field study, Poverty, Trends
...seven provinces (also equating with Chorotega, the term given to one of the countrys...as poor, the incidence of poverty in Chorotega was 29.3% compared with only 17...2005b:Cuadro 4). Not only does Chorotega have the lowest coverage of social services...
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Emergence of Nationalist Identity in Armed Insurrections: a Comparison of Iraq and Nicaragua
Journal article by Bradley Tatar; Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 78, 2005
Subjects: Cultural anthropology, Iraq, Nationalism, Nicaragua, Rebellions
...Identity In the city of Masaya, the people residing in the neighborhood of Monimbo are believed to be descendants of the Chorotega Indian tribe that inhabited the area prior to Columbus arrival in the New World (Field 1999). The people of Monimbo display...
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Nahuas, Gachupines, Patriarchs and Piris: Nicaraguan History through Highland Peasant Eyes
Journal article by Timothy Charles Brown; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 20, 1997
Subjects: Culture, History, Nicaragua, Peasants
...forced to do so by the Army. In the very first meeting of Conquistador and Nicaraguan Nahua ruler, Gil Gonzalez offered Chorotega Chief Nicarao, a Nahua, the stark choices of a requerimiento. Accept Catholic Christianity and baptism and become a vassal...
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Forged Testimonies: Fabricating the Nation in Sergio Ramirez's Sombras Nada Mas
Journal article by Henigha Stephen; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: National identity--Portrayals, Nicaraguan history--Portrayals, Nicaraguan literature--Criticism and interpretation, Ramirez, Sergio--Criticism and interpretation, Sombras nada mas (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...prefers to conduct business in English (as a Jew, Martinicas prototype, Cornelio Hueck, was also distant from the Nahuatl-Chorotega ethnic origins of the vast majority of Nicaraguans). (21) As Somoza says to Martinica: Being fluent in english sic like...


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magazine articles on: Chorotega  - 2 results

 
 
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Honduras
Magazine article by Louisa Reynolds; New Internationalist, January 2007
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher (Italian explorer)--Discovery and exploration, Honduran history--Analysis, Honduras--Description and travel
...neighbourhoods without proper planning. Culture: Mestizo (mixed indigenous and European) 90%, indigenous 7% (Lenca, Chorti, Chorotega and Pipil), black 2%, white 1%. Religion: Christian: Roman Catholic 97%; Protestant 3%. Language: Spanish is...
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Guanacaste Days - Celebrating Democracy's Heritage in Costa Rica
Magazine article by Tess Gadwa; World and I, Vol. 16, July 2001
Subjects: Costa Rica--Description and travel, Democracy--Costa Rica, Folk festivals--Costa Rica
...Indian, and African heritage. When the Spaniards arrived in 1522, Nicoya was already an important population center for the Chorotega people. The early Spaniards noted that every May 3, the Indians climbed a nearby hill to ward off earthquakes. Unable to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Chorotega  - 4 results

 
 
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Chorotega
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHOROTEGA chorota ga, aboriginal people and language...and Costa Rica. Little is known of the Chorotega, primarily beause of the absence of...Andean area and those of Mexico. The Chorotega were probably democratic, with a chief...
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Natives, Middle American
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...highest cultural achievements. The Maya had links with the Chorotega of Nicaragua and Honduras, and these in turn had contacts...Cakchiquel flourished in Guatemala; besides these and the Chorotega, the southern tip of Central America did not produce as highly...
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Mosquito Coast
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...east coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. The name is derived from the Miskito, the indigenous inhabitants and remnants of the Chorotega . Never exactly delimited, the region is a belt c.40 mi (60 km) wide extending from the San Juan River north into NE...
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UlÚa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The Ulua, with its tributaries, drains almost the entire western half of the country. The valley, once a center of the Chorotega civilization, is one of the most productive in Honduras. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...


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