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

A 2006 collection of indigenous-language writings from central Mexico and Guatemala, written during the colonial period.

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

9780521012218, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 November 2005

264 pages
22.7 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.358 kg

"...a collection of indigenous language writings from Mexico and Guatemala from the 16th to the 18th centuries."- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, 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.

Part I: 1. Mesoamericans and Spaniards in the sixteenth century
2. Literacy in colonial Mesoamerica
Part II: 3. Views of the conquest
4. Political life
5. Household and land
6. Society and gender
7. Crime and punishment
8. Religious life
9. Rhetoric and moral philosophy.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], History of the Americas [HBJK]