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About the Author
Nancy Farriss has dedicated a half century to studying the history of the church in Mexico and the history and religion of the indigenous populations of Yucatan and Oaxaca. She is currently retired from teaching colonial Latin American History and Ethnohistory at the University of Pennsylvania and divides her residence between Philadelphia and Oaxaca.
Reviews
Tongues of Fire will be an enduring contribution to the history of indigenous Christianity and indigenous languages. * Sergio Romero, Rezensionen *
A subtle treatment of intercultural communication in early and mid-colonial Oaxaca that will also illuminate wider discussions of New Spain, colonial Spanish America and beyond. The simultaneity of evangelization in indigenous languages and broader processes of Hispanicization is explored, illuminating both the miracle and the impossibility of 'translating' core Christian beliefs and practices in new settings. * Kenneth Mills, J. Frederick Hoffmann Professor of History, University of Michigan *
Farriss's new book offers an extraordinary history of communication as it unfolded between European Christians and a Mexican indigenous culture, covering every aspect of the process --from the earliest gestures to the textbooks that were written to the subtle changes that eventually occurred in the mindsets of both Zapotecs and Spaniards. This is a work that scholars of early Mexico must read if they have any interest in religion or language contact or indigenous cultures-and who these days could fail to take an interest in at least one of those?! * Camilla Townsend, author of Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive *
In this rich and deeply researched book Nancy Farriss makes a major contribution to the historical analysis of colonial Mexico. Drawing on decades of research on Oaxaca, the Valley of Mexico and Yucatan, this work is both broad in scope and tightly focused on the intersection of language and Christian evangelization. Highly readable and erudite, this book would make the core of a superb seminar and it merits close reading by all who work on colonial history of the Americas. * William Hanks, author of Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190884109
Author Nancy Farriss
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 717g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 236mm * 38mm