Certain birds enable people to comprehend the inexplicable because they embody
contrasts and resolve oppositions, and some birds have particular attributes that make them …

For many cultures around the world, birds are viewed as seers who can foretell the future.
Among the Ch'orti Maya of southern Guatemala, birds play an important role in many …

When people hear bird sounds, they understand them on various levels that are interpreted
according to cultural context. Among Indigenous cultures of Latin America, avian voices are …

This paper explores the significance of human-bird interactions among Peruvian Urarina,
focusing on bird speech and its relation to concepts of voice, power and prophecy. It …

This essay explores the avian nature of Huitzilopochtli (“Hummingbird on the Left”), the
tutelary god of the Mexica, by centering the deity's association with the hummingbird …

Offering intimate and unforgettable descriptions of the birds and people that inhabit
Honduran landscapes, Seven Names for the Bellbird showcases the deep-rooted local …

The Ch 'ol Maya in the state of Chiapas, Mexico live in what could be called
the―traditional‖ information age due to their sociocultural relationship with birds …

Ethical implications of Yahgan and Mapuche narratives about the birds of the austral
temperate forests of South America. This paper analyzes the ethical implications of Yahgan …

Birds are important in the thought of the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula, from prehistory
down to the present. Maya/Spanish dictionaries from the Spanish colonial period contain …

In many pre-modern, non-Western, and indigenous cultures, birds mediate between humans
and a divine realm. In mythology and lore they are widely associated with the survival of …