The learned ones : Nahua intellectuals in postconquest Mexico / Kelly S. McDonough.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:First peoples (2010)
Main Author: McDonough, Kelly S., 1970- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Series:First peoples (2010)
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Physical Description:xiii, 260 pages.
Format: Book

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