Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and GuatemalaMatthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano Cambridge University Press, 7. 11. 2005. - 245 страница Mesoamerican Voices presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality. |
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Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the Sixteenth Century 31 | 3 |
Literacy in Colonial Mesoamerica | 11 |
Views of the Conquest | 23 |
Some major Nahua altepetl in and around the Valley of Mexico | 24 |
2 | 42 |
5 | 51 |
Political Life | 62 |
3 | 71 |
Household and Land | 94 |
Society and Gender | 126 |
Crime and Punishment | 158 |
Religious Life | 174 |
Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy | 202 |
Glossary | 227 |
239 | |
7 | 80 |
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