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The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl
Lee provides a new assessment of Nezahualcoyotl that critically examines original codices and poetry written in Nahuatl alongside Spanish chronicles in an effort to paint a more realistic portrait of the legendary Aztec figure. Urging scholars away from sources that reinforce a Judeo-Christian perspective of pre-Hispanic history, Lee offers a revision of the colonial images of Nahua history and culture that have continued over the last five hundred years.
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Cortés : conquering the powerful Aztec empire
A look at the life of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, including his first voyages to the New World, his conquering of the Aztec Empire, and his legacy in world history.
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The Medicine of Memory
\"People who live in California deny the past,\" asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where \"what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo,\" no one has \"the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred.\" From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been. In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, \"This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic.\"
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The medicine of memory : a Mexica clan in California
People who live in California deny the past, asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo, no one has the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred. From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been. In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic.
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Aztec Arithmetic Revisited: Land-Area Algorithms and Acolhua Congruence Arithmetic
Acolhua-Aztec land records depicting areas and side dimensions of agricultural fields provide insight into Aztec arithmetic. Hypothesizing that recorded areas resulted from indigenous calculation, in a study of sample quadrilateral fields we found that 60% of the area values could be reproduced exactly by computation. In remaining cases, discrepancies between computed and recorded areas were consistently small, suggesting use of an unknown indigenous arithmetic. In revisiting the research, we discovered evidence for the use of congruence principles, based on proportions between the standard linear Acolhua measure and their units of shorter length. This procedure substitutes for computation with fractions and is labeled \"Acolhua congruence arithmetic.\" The findings also clarify variance between Acolhua and Tenochca linear units, long an issue in understanding Aztec metrology.
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The Medicine of Memory
\"People who live in California deny the past,\" asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where \"what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo,\" no one has \"the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred.\" From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history, a deluded belief that the way things are now is the way they have always been.
In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories-his own and his family's reaching back to the eighteenth century-to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways under the mission system, violence toward Mexicanos during the Gold Rush, Chicano farm life in the early twentieth century, the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Chicano-Latino activism in San Francisco in the 1970s, and the current rebirth of Chicano-Indio culture. Rejecting the notion that history is always written by the victors, and refusing to be one of the vanquished, he declares, \"This is my California history, my memories, richly subjective and atavistic.\"
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Once Upon a Time in American Ornithology
[...] with peace, Professor A. J. O. Anderson of the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Professor C. E. Dibble of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, decided to collaborate in producing an English-Nahuatl translation. Typical descriptions provide the Aztec name in Nahuatl, appearance, habitat, food, period of presence (migrant or resident), behavioral traits, taking or capture methods (Fig. 2), edibility and sometimes, cultural or mythological attributes. The 10th paragraph of Chapter 2 provides a two-page glossary of avian anatomical terms, including those for 14 feather tracts, and other body parts including the crop, gizzard, nictitating membrane, and the uropygial gland, all of whose functions the Aztecs understood.
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Biographies of brilliance: Pearls, transformations of matter and being, c. AD 1492
Indigenous peoples of the Americas regarded the positive spiritual and creative power of light to be manifested in many brilliant objects - from iridescent feathers to shiny minerals and metals. By contrast, Europeans valued only a few glittering objects - pearls, emeralds, gold and silver - from a commercial standpoint. By adopting a biographical approach to one of these items - pearls - it is possible to explore the ways in which these earliest of traded objects embodied, bridged and transformed the material, social and imagined worlds of Amerindians and Europeans from AD 1492 onwards.
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