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Annals of Native America : how the Nahuas of colonial Mexico kept their history alive / Camilla Townsend.
Author
Townsend, Camilla, 1965-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description
xviii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: History
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F1221.N3 T69 2017
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Nahuas
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History
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Nahuas
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Historiography
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Nahuatl language
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History
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Nahuatl literature
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History
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Indigenous peoples of Mexico
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History
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Mexico
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Antiquities
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Mexico
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History
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To 1519
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Mexico
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History
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Conquest, 1519-1540
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Indigenous Studies
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Summary note
"For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they wrote hundreds of pages, which circulated widely within their communities. Over the next century and a half, their descendants copied and recopied these texts, sometimes embellishing, sometimes extracting, and often expanding them chronologically. The annals, as they have usually been called, were written not only by Indians but also for Indians, without regard to European interests. As such they are rare and inordinately valuable texts. They have often been assumed to be both largely anonymous and at least partially inscrutable to modern ears. In this work, Nahuatl scholar Camilla Townsend reveals the authors of most of the texts, restores them to their proper contexts, and makes sense of long misunderstood documents. She follows a remarkable chain of Nahua historians, generation by generation, exploring who they were, what they wrote, and why they wrote it. Sometimes they conceived of their work as a political act, reinstating bonds between communities, or between past, present, and future generations. Sometimes they conceived of it largely as art and delighted in offering language that was beautiful or startling or humorous. Annals of Native America brings together, for the first time, samples of their many creations to offer a heretofore obscured history of the Nahuas and an alternate perspective on the Conquest and its aftermath."--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-312) and index.
Contents
Old stories in new letters (1520s-1550s)
Becoming conquered (the 1560s)
Forging friendship with Franciscans (1560s-1580s)
The riches of twilight (circa 1600)
Renaissance in the East (the seventeenth century)
Epilogue: Postscript from a golden age
Appendices
The texts in Nahuatl
Historia Tolteca Chichimeca
Annals of Tlatelolco
Annals of Juan Bautista
Annals of Tecamachalco
Annals of Cuauhtitlan
Chimalpahin, seventh relation
Don Juan Bautista Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza.
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ISBN
9780190628994 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0190628995 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780190055523 ((paperback))
0190055529 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016017658
OCLC
951778469
Other standard number
40026578589
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