Miguel leonportilla, independencia, reforma, revolucion. Leonportilla successfully demonstrates that there was a class of professional intellectuals in nahua society appropriately described as philosophers the tlamatinime, and sketches in broad terms the parameters of their thought. Those texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Revue i nterdisciplinaire detudes hispaniques en ligne, n 11 juillet 2018 lage des minorites, issn electronique. Postconquest central mexican history and philology. A study of the ancient nahuatl mind, an amplification with assistance from translator jack emory davis of several previous works of his, including his groundbreaking doctoral thesis. In this updated edition of the classic the broken spears, leon portilla has included accounts from native aztec descendants across the centuries. For at least two millennia before the advent of the spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central mexico. He has spearheaded an entire scholarly discipline to evaluate and understand nahuatl literature and thought, extending from precolumbian times to the 1. In this updated edition of the classic the broken spears, leonportilla has included accounts from native aztec descendants across the centuries. He was one of the most reputable and commonly cited authorities on aztec culture and literature in the precolumbian and colonial eras among mexican academia.
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