Annals of Native America : how the Nahuas of colonial Mexico kept their history alive / Camilla Townsend.

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 t...

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Main Author: Townsend, Camilla, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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