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Among primary materials relating to the history of Mexico, documentation in Nahuatl comprises a special category. Though Nahuatl is a living language, spoken by thousands, one of the facts of life in our profession is that few native Nahuatl speakers ever become historians. An additional effort is required, by an Eduard Seler or a Robert Barlow or an Arthur J. O. Anderson, if materials in Nahuatl are to be applied to scholarly ends. We have become more familiar in recent years with the literary and philosophical qualities of Nahuatl writing in the work of Angel María Garibay K., and Miguel León-Portilla. Good progress has been made in translating major Nahuatl texts, particularly the Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún, by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. And the remarkable work of Pedro Carrasco is casting an ever clearer light on the organization of the Nahuatl-speaking societies of conquest times. In Europe and America, the new generation of students, more than its predecessors, seems to be aware of the applicability of existing Nahuatl studies and the need for new ones. The demand and the opportunity are obvious, and we can expect to see steady advances in the

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Author

Langacker, Ronald W. ;Anderson, Arthur J. O. (editor);Berdan, Frances (editor);Lockhart, James (editor)

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520363984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Latin American History, Humanities