An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: Michel Launey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 475

Book Description
Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is illustrated clearly with examples, exercises and passages for translation. A key is provided to allow students to check their answers. By far the most approachable textbook of Nahuatl available, this book will be an excellent teaching tool both for classroom use and for readers pursuing independent study of the language. It will be an invaluable resource to anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, archaeologists and linguists alike.

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

Author: James Richard Andrews
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134529
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
Nahuatl is the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. This text introduces the language using an anthropological approach, teaching learners to understand Nahuatl according to its own distinctive grammar and to reject translationalist descriptions based on English or Spanish notions of grammar. In particular, the author emphasizes the nonexistence of words in Nahuatl (except for the few so-called particles) and stresses the nuclear clause as the basis for Nahuatl linguistic organization.

An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl

Author: Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806124216
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
This is a comprehensive modern dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbors. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans, and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl beginning in the mid-sixteenth century and continuing to the present.

Learn Nahuatl, Language of the Aztecs and Modern Nahuas

Author: Yan Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Learn Nahuatl, the language used by the Mexica (Aztec) civilization and still preserved by over a million people in Mexico. This guide is not written for the expert linguist, but rather for the beginner. Included are hundreds of examples and dozens of practice sets. An emphasis is placed on the Huasteca variety of Chicontepec, Veracruz. This second edition presents with improved updates, more vocabulary sections, larger reference dictionary, and new included grammar sections.

Nahuatl as Written

Author: James Lockhart
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804744580
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
This book, based on many years of teaching the natural language, is a set of lessons that can be understood by students working alone or used in organized classes and contains an abundance of examples that serve as exercises.

Aztec Religion and Art of Writing

Author: Isabel Laack
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004392017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of “sacred scripture” traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. "This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system." - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University

Nahuatl-English/English-Nahuatl (Aztec)

Author: Fermin Herrera
Publisher: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
This dictionary reflects usage largely based on classical norms of the Nahuatl literary tradition, but also includes more contemporary vocabulary.

The Art of Nahuatl Speech

Author: Frances E. Karttunen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

Aztec Philosophy

Author: James Maffie
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607322234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609

Book Description
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.

Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar

Author: Wick R. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Annotation. Translated from the 1976 work in Spanish, partially revised by the author (whose work was cut short by her death in 1981); revisions were completed by the translator and editors. An analysis of the structure and elements of this Aztec language. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.