Description:
The first known record of an indigenous population's integration into the trans-Atlantic economy, and of the impact of the trans-Pacific trade on a lucrative industry in the region, the Codex Sierra provides a unique window on the world of the Mixteca less than a generation after the conquest--a view rendered that much more precise, clear, and coherent by this new translation and commentary.
Brief description: Kevin Terraciano is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries and coeditor of The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.
Review Quotes: "An important contribution to the study of Ñudzahui manuscripts that Terraciano makes with this book is preferencing Indigenous languages, concepts, and histories. Interdisciplinary scholars of ethnohistory often address these Indigenous perspectives, but rarely in such a way that forefronts Indigenous culture clearly to students of all levels."--Early American Literature