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Foreword: On the Pleasures of the Amateur | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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How to Use this Book | |
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General Introduction by Miguel Leon-Portilla | |
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Four Pre-Columbian Documents | |
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The New Geography of Mesoamerica | |
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Nahua Literature | |
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Songs and Poems | |
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Metaphysical Poems | |
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Bawdy Poems | |
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War Songs | |
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Otomi Songs in Nahuatl | |
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Attributed Songs | |
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Sacred Narrative | |
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Quetzalcoatl's Hero Journey | |
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The Founding of Tenochtitlan | |
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The Birth of Huitzilopochtli | |
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Sacred Hymns, Prayers, and Ceremonies | |
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Hymn to Xipe Totec | |
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Song of Cihuacoatl | |
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Hymn to Tlaloc | |
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Invocation of Tezcatlipoca | |
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Prayer to Tlazolteotl | |
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Huehuetlahtolli ("Discourses of the Elders") | |
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Florentine Codex, Book VI | |
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The Bancroft Dialogues | |
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Ceremonies of Sacrifice - Florentine Codex | |
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Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors | |
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Proverbs | |
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Conundrums | |
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Metaphors | |
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Historical Narratives | |
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Extract from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca | |
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The Fall of Tenochtitlan | |
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The Conquest of Tenochtitlan | |
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Nahua Historians of the Colonial Period | |
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Cronica Mexicayotl | |
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The Prophecy of the High Priest Tenochtli by Chimalpain | |
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Christian Proselytizing Literature | |
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The Dialogues of 1524 | |
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Christian Psalms | |
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Christian Theater - Holy Week Drama | |
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Christian Epic Literature - Nican Mopohua | |
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Christian Pageant - The Tepozteco | |
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The Dance of the Great Conquest | |
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Colonial Literature of Daily Life | |
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Letters and Proclamations | |
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Official Texts | |
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Modern Nahua Literature | |
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The Poet | |
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Life and Death in Milpa Alta | |
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Manifestos of Emiliano Zapata | |
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Dona Luz Jimenez Stories | |
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Madrecita | |
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Coyotes of Today | |
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A New Dialogue of Flowers and Songs by Xochime | |
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On a Diet | |
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Three Works by Natalio Hernandez Xocoyotzin | |
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Lord of Night by Librado Silva Galeana | |
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Maya Literature | |
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Sacred Narrative | |
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The Popol Vuh | |
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The Chilam Balam of Chumayel | |
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Dramatic Literature | |
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The Rabinal Achi | |
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Political Literature | |
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Title of the Lords of Totonicapan | |
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Prophetic and Historical Literature | |
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Conquest - Chilam Balam of Mani | |
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Character Predictions - Chilam Balam of Mani | |
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The Secret History of the Itza - Chilam Balam of Tizimin | |
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A Spanish Raid: Maya Chronicles | |
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The Cakchiquel History: Annals of the Cakchiquels | |
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Last Flight of the Quetzal Prince - Titles from the House of Ixquim-Nehaib | |
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The Death of Cuauhtemoc - A Chontal Story | |
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From the Cronica de Chac-Xulub-Chen | |
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Songs and Incantations | |
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Rituals of the Bacabs | |
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The Songs of Dzitbalche | |
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Prayers for Rain | |
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A Lacandon Song | |
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A Chorti Curing Ritual | |
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A Song for His Wizard | |
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Bright Star of Evening | |
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Maya Proverbs and Kennings | |
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Proverbs | |
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Kennings | |
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Creencias | |
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Myths, Legends, and Poems | |
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On the Human Condition and the Moral Order - The Chamula Origin Story | |
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What the World Used to Be Like - A Chorti Origin Story | |
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The Sweeper of the Path | |
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The Famine | |
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A Faithful Husband | |
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Awaken the Flint! (A Battle Song) | |
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Modern Historical and Pragmatic Narratives | |
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The Proclamation of Juan de la Cruz, 1850 | |
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The War of Santa Rosa, 1868-70 | |
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At the Time of the Closing of the Churches, 1935 | |
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Pajarito's War | |
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The Origin of the Ladinos | |
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The First Two Months of the Zapatistas | |
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Modern Stories, Fables, and Poems | |
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The Little Bird and the Monkey by Miguel Angel May May | |
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The Son Who Came Back from the United States | |
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Butterflies of Four Colors by Feliciano Sanchez Chan | |
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Seven Poems by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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At the Side of the Road - Essay by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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Buzzard by Humberto Ak'abal | |
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Two Poems by Briceida Cuevas Cob | |
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The Little Bee (a fable) | |
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Other Mesoamerican Literatures | |
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Mixtec | |
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The Mixtec Creation Myth | |
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Mazatec | |
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Chant by Maria Sabina | |
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Five Poems by Juan Gregorio Regino | |
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Zapotec | |
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A Historical Legend | |
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Blessing of the Wedding Couple | |
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Zapoteco by Gabriel Lopez Chinas | |
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Three Poems by Mario Molina Cruz | |
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Otomi | |
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In the Revolution of 1910 | |
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Seven Erotic Otomi Songs and One Farewell | |
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The River Passes | |
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Purepecha | |
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The Chronicle of Michoacan | |
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The Lazy One | |
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The Flower of the Dead | |
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Tlapanec | |
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The Word Shall Always Bloom by Abad Carrasco Zuniga | |
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Glossary of Names, Terms, and Concepts | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Index | |