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

Cambridge University Press, 1/26/2006
EAN 9780521012218, ISBN10: 052101221X

Paperback, 264 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English

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.

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.