Testaments of Toluca / edited and translated with commentary and an introductory study by Caterina Pizzigoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pizzigoni, Caterina.

Series:

Nahuatl series ; no. 8.

UCLA Latin American studies ; v. 90.

UCLA Latin American studies ; v. 90

Nahuatl studies series ; no. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nahuas--History--Sources.

Nahuas.

Nahuas--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo--History--Sources.

Wills--Mexico--Toluca de Lerdo.

Wills.

Toluca de Lerdo (Mexico)--History--Sources.

Toluca de Lerdo (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press ; [Los Angeles] : UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a large body of Nahuatl wills (98) from 1652 to 1783 from an important valley not much studied, thus greatly enlarging our perspective on the evolution of indigenous society and culture in central Mexico. Each testament is transcribed, translated, and accompanied by a commentary on the testator's situation and on interesting terminology. A substantial introductory study fully analyzes the testamentary genre as seen in this corpus (a first) and summarizes the content of the documents in realms such as gender, kinship, household, and land. Wills are very human documents, and the apparatus draws out this aspect, telling us much of local indigenous life in central Mexico in the third century after Spanish contact, so that the book is of potential interest to a broad spectrum of readers.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Notaries in the Corpus

List of Testaments in Clusters

Acknowledgments

Introductory Study

1. Characteristics of the Corpus

2. The Wills and What They Tell Us

3. Language and Orthography

4. Notaries

5. Some Concluding Remarks

Testaments of Toluca: Transcription, Translation, and Commentary

Toluca Area

Tepemaxalco

Calimaya

Calimaya/Tepemaxalco

Glossary

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-250).

ISBN:

9780804768252

0804768250

9781435609006

143560900X

OCLC:

320325660