Testaments toluca (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Volume 8. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:9780804756075.…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. pp. xv + 250 Illus.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 250 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. This work presents Nahuatl wills from 1652 to 1783 from an important valley, thus enl.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a large body of Nahuatl wills (98) from 1652 to 1783 from an important valley not much studied, thus greatly enlarging our perspective on the evolution of indigenous society and culture in central Mexico. Each testament is transcribed, translated, and accompanied by a commentary on the testator's situation and on interesting terminology. A substantial introductory study fully analyzes the testamentary genre as seen in this corpus (a first) and summarizes the content of the documents in realms such as gender, kinship, household, and land. Wills are very human documents, and the apparatus draws out this aspect, telling us much of local indigenous life in central Mexico in the third century after Spanish contact, so that the book is of potential interest to a broad spectrum of readers. …