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Indigenous Miracles
Indigenous Miracles
Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico
By Edward W. Osowski
Consulting both Nahuatl and Spanish sources, Osowski synthesizes ethnohistory and institutional history to create a fascinating account of how and why the Nahuas protected the practices and symbols they had appropriated under Hapsburg rule. This account contributes to our understanding of the ways in which Indigenous agency was negotiated in colonial Mexico.

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From The University of Arizona Press
Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman
Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman
Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective
By Janis B. Nuckolls
Using the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers.  Learn More


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