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Book SynopsisThe Nahua Indians of central Mexico were the most populus of Mesoamerica's cultural-linguistic groups at the time of the Spanish conquest. These essays on the postconquest Nahuas and Nahua-Spanish interaction bring together pieces that reflect various facets of the author's research interests.
Table of ContentsFigure Preface Map Part I. Nahuas: 1. Postconquest Nahua society and culture seen through Nahuatl sources 2. Complex municipalities: Tlaxcala and Tulancingo in the sixteenth century 3. Views of corporate self and history in some valley of Mexico towns, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Part II. Nahuatl Philology: 4. And Ana wept 5. The testimony of don Juan 6. The Tulancingo perspective: documents from the UCLA Tulancingo collection 7. A language transition in eighteenth-century Mexico 8. Toward assessing the phoneticity of older Nahuatl texts 9. Care, ingenuity and irresponsibility: the Bierhorst edition of the Cantares Mexicanos Part III. Historiography: 10. Charles Gibson and the ethnohistory of postconquest central Mexico 11. A vein of ethnohistory: recent Nahuatl-based historical research Part IV. Spaniards: 12. Spaniards among Indians: Toluca in the later sixteenth century 13. The magistrate of Zacualpan Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliographical appendix Bibliography.
