Legend of the suns: reproducing the production of a nahuatl text

This essay treats the Nahuatl text entitled "Legend of the Suns" in order to examine it for signs of the speech event in which it originated. Because of the importance of this text as one of our most-complete native accounts of Nahua cosmology and history, previous translations and interpr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Kockelman, Paul
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1998
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/77918
Acceso en línea:https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ecn/article/view/77918
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:leyenda de los soles
leyend of the suns
Descripción
Sumario:This essay treats the Nahuatl text entitled "Legend of the Suns" in order to examine it for signs of the speech event in which it originated. Because of the importance of this text as one of our most-complete native accounts of Nahua cosmology and history, previous translations and interpretations have rightly viewed it as a fountain of preconquest "Aztec" thought. This selective analysis and translation focuses instead on what the "Sun Legend" can tell us about postconquest interactions between Spanish and Nahuas and their joint, complicated, and often inadvertent production of both history and texts.