Kevin Terraciano
Autore di The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries
Sull'Autore
Kevin Terraciano is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1962
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (PhD|1994)
- Attività lavorative
- historian
- Relazioni
- Sousa, Lisa (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- University of California, Los Angeles
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 15
- Popolarità
- #708,120
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
Ably and interestingly introduced, beautifully reproduced, and meticulously transcribed and translated, Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico is a fine example of how interesting primary source documents, especially illustrated ones, can be exhibited and explicated for the benefit of academic readers. Scholars of language, colonialism, and Latin America of every bent (economic, social, cultural, etc.) can find something useful in Terraciano’s presentation of the Codex Sierra. Historians of discovery and exploration will not find any explorers here, but some references to indigenous mapping and land practices, which are useful to recall. Terraciano’s main point, that the colonial encounter between “conquerors” and the “conquered” was always a complicated dance of hybridization and accommodation, is always rewarding to remember and exhibited well here.… (altro)