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Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
Annals of Native America How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive
Author: Camilla Townsend
For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record histo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780190628994
ISBN-10: 0190628995
Publication Date: 11/10/2016
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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