Anthropology

Dr. George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor, Alejandra Dubcovsky (UC Riverside), have a new journal article “Hearing a faint voice: Timucua words in a Catholic miracle story”, which appears in the inaugural edition of The New American Antiquarian.

• The earliest texts from Florida come from a corpus of Timucua language materials published between 1612 and 1635.  A very common genre of Timucua text is the exemplum or miracle story.  Though these exempla have themes that originally European, a close reading of the Timucua exempla often reveals corrections, omissions, and additions that show the work of Florida Native people in retelling and interpreting these stories.  In this article, Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology George Aaron Broadwell and his coauthor Alejandra Dubcovsky, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Riverside provide the first close reading of a Timucua exemplum from a 1627 Catechism.