The Learned Ones - Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Kelly S. McDonough is an assistant professor of colonial literatures and cultures and indigenous studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. She has contributed to several journals, and she serves on the inaugural editorial board for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal . Klappentext Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period to the present day. This volume 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. Zusammenfassung Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period to the present day. This volume 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kelly S McDonough, Kelly S. Mcdonough
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780816534210
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3421-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous