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The essential guide to the world of Aztec mythology, based on Nahuatl-language sources that challenge the colonial history passed down to us by the Spanish. How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs? For decades, the popular image of the Mexica people ¿ better known today as the Aztecs ¿ has been defined by the Spaniards who conquered them. Their...

On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of folklore from the Lenape people, New Jersey’s native inhabitants. Originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago, but never published until now, it shares the tribe’s cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.

On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of folklore from the Lenape people, New Jersey’s native inhabitants. Originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago, but never published until now, it shares the tribe’s cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles.

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Im November 1519 kommt es zur weltberühmten Begegnung von Hernando Cortés mit dem Aztekenherrscher Moctezuma. Was damals passierte - und was danach geschah -, ist oft erzählt worden, aber immer so, wie die Spanier es uns präsentiert haben. Camilla Townsend stellt die faszinierende, vielschichtige Geschichte der Azteken erstmals konsequent aus deren eigener Perspektive dar. Wir haben gelernt, dass die Schrift den Europäern gehörte. Doch unbem...

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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-wa-lee), 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 them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. These written texts were carefully preserved and even e...

This study of colonial Mexico's Nahuatl-language annals brings the xiuhpohualli tradition to life. Author Camilla Townsend has deduced the authorship of most of the texts and thus is able to place the works in their rightful contexts and render the stories more accessible to modern ears than they have been before.

In this stunning new biography, Pocahontas emerges for the first time in three complex dimensions--as a young child, as an influential princess visiting Jamestown, and as an English gentlewoman in London--allowing readers to see and sympathize with her and her people people as never before.

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. "Malintzin, " at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her dona Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cortes whatever he wanted out of her own...

This "Reader" from the "Uncovering the Past " series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American pastIncludes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular textsProvides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further researchIncludes such texts a...

The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity, many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward work explain the U.S.'s greater prosperity. In this innovative study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditiona...

This book provides a translation from the Nahuatl (or Aztec) of two sets of historical annals written by Mexican indigenous people from the Tlaxcala-Puebla region in the late seventeenth century, the introduction and notes make the works accessible to the modern reader.