Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
by
Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and...