"They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the "wise ones" of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes pre...

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1. Verfasser:	McDonough, Kelly S. 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Tucson Univ. of Arizona Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:	First peoples: new directions in indigenous studies
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1500-1600 LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico Geschichte Nahuatl literature > History and criticism Nahuas > Intellectual life Nahuas > Mexico > History Nahua philosophy Intellektueller Nahua Literatur Lateinamerika Mexiko
Zusammenfassung:	"They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the "wise ones" of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some from linking the words "indigenous" and "intellectual" together. Not so, according to author Kelly S. McDonough, at least not for native speakers of Nahuatl, one of the most widely spoken and best-documented indigenous languages of the Americas. This book focuses on how Nahuas have been deeply engaged with the written word ever since the introduction of the Roman alphabet in the early sixteenth century. Dipping into distinct time periods of the past five hundred years, this broad perspective allows McDonough to show the heterogeneity of Nahua knowledge and writing as Nahuas took up the pen as agents of their own discourses and agendas. McDonough worked collaboratively with contemporary Nahua researchers and students, reconnecting the theorization of a population with the population itself. The Learned Ones describes the experience of reading historic text with native speakers today, some encountering Nahua intellectuals and their writing for the very first time. It intertwines the written word with oral traditions and embodied knowledge, aiming to retie the strand of alphabetic writing to the dynamic trajectory of Nahua intellectual work"..
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	XIII, 260 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9780816511365