Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190055523 |
ISBN 10 | 0190055529 |
Author | Professor of History Camilla Townsend |
Language | English |
Book Description | For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-wa-lee), or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniard |
About the Author | Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico and Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, among other books. Read more |
Publication Date | 2019-07-01 |
Number of Pages | 340 pages |
Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive