Tongues of Fire: Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico

ISBN-13: 9780190884109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 432 str.

Nancy Farriss

Opis

Tongues of Fire investigates the role played by language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Nancy Farriss analyzes how native elites, acting as translators and parish administrators, served to make evangelization an indigenous enterprise, and the new Mexican church an indigenous one.

Recenzje

In this rich and deeply researched book Nancy Farriss makes a major contribution to the historical analysis of colonial Mexico. Drawing on decades of research on Oaxaca, the Valley of Mexico and Yucatan, this work is both broad in scope and tightly focused on the intersection of language and Christian evangelization. Highly readable and erudite, this book would make the core of a superb seminar and it merits close reading by all who work on colonial history of the Americas.

O autorze

Nancy Farriss has dedicated a half century to studying the history of the church in Mexico and the history and religion of the indigenous populations of Yucatan and Oaxaca. She is currently retired from teaching colonial Latin American History and Ethnohistory at the University of Pennsylvania and divides her residence between Philadelphia and Oaxaca.