Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala

ISBN-13: 9780521012218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 264 str.

Matthew Restall; Lisa Sousa; Kevin Terraciano

Opis

Translated into English, these 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. This collection provides college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first 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.

Recenzje

"...a collection of indigenous language writings from Mexico and Guatemala from the 16th to the 18th centuries."- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Spis treści

Part I: 1. Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the sixteenth century; 2. Literacy in colonial Mesoamerica; Part II: 3. Views of the conquest; 4. Political life; 5. Household and land; 6. Society and gender; 7. Crime and punishment; 8. Religious life; 9. Rhetoric and moral philosophy.