Mesoamerican voices : native-language writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala

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Mesoamerican voices : native-language writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala

Title remainder

native-language writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala

Statement of responsibility

edited by Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano

Contributor

• Restall, Matthew, 1964-
• Terraciano, Kevin, 1962-
• Sousa, Lisa, 1962-

Editor

• Terraciano, Kevin, 1962-
• Restall, Matthew, 1964-
• Sousa, Lisa, 1962-

Subject

• Indian literature -- Guatemala -- History and criticism
• Indian literature -- Mexico -- History and criticism
• Maya literature
• Nahuatl literature

Language

eng

Summary

Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, 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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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks