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

Name: Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala
Author: Matthew Restall
ISBN: 9780521012218

by Matthew Restall (Editor), Lisa Sousa (Editor), Kevin Terraciano

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Overview

"Mesoamerican Voices 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, Mayas 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 wide variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writhing, law, crime, and morality.

Synopsis

A collection of indigenous-language writings from central Mexico and Guatemala, written during the colonial period.

About the Author, Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1995 he is author of thirty articles and essays and six books, including The Maya World (1997) and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (2003).

Lisa Sousa is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She co-edited and translated The Story of Guadalupe (1998), with James Lockard and Staffor Poole, and is author of numerous articles on society and culture in colonial Mexico.

Kevin Terraciano is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca (2001).