History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca

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1998
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0816518866
ISBN 13: 9780816518869

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Increases our chances of understanding the perspectives and procedures of native Mesoamerican prehistory. --Bulletin of Latin American Research

It is a careful scholarly translation which alerts the reader to differences of opinion as to translation interpretations and paleographic readings of the documents by previous scholars. --Nahua Newsletter

Author Bio

John Bierhorst is also the editor-translator of Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs and the author of a Nahuatl-English dictionary. Currently he is at work on a bilingual edition of the manuscript Romances de los senores de la Nueva Espana, a sixteenth-century compilation of Aztec song texts.