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

by Edited by Matthew Restall , Lisa Sousa , Kevin Terraciano

• ISBN13: 9780521812795
• ISBN10: 0521812798
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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, 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.

Table of Contents

List of Documents and Images	vii
Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE
Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the Sixteenth Century	3	(8)
Literacy in Colonial Mesoamerica	11	(12)
PART TWO
Views of the Conquest	23	(39)
Political Life	62	(32)
Household and Land	94	(32)
Society and Gender	126	(32)
Crime and Punishment	158	(16)
Religious Life	174	(28)
Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy	202	(25)
Glossary	227	(4)
References and Readings	231	(8)
Index	239