{"product_id":"nahua-horizons","title":"Nahua Horizons","description":"\u003ci\u003eNahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futures in the early colonial period. Scholar Ezekiel G. Stear delves deeply into canonical texts such as the \u003ci\u003eFlorentine Codex\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eCrÓnica mexicayotl\u003c\/i\u003e as well as understudied texts such as the \u003ci\u003eLienzo de Quauhquechollan\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eTira de Tepechpan\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eAnales de Juan Bautista\u003c\/i\u003e. The study does more than describe how Nahuas conceived of their own futures: it also shows their specific plans for moving into the coming years. \u003cp\u003e The book examines how Nahua writers in Central Mexico and other Mesoamerican voices in colonial Spanish America played an active, decisive role in shaping culture, using writing to persuade their communities to mold their own destinies, even amid colonial upheaval. This work opens up new directions for research and teaching, shifting inquiry from how Nahuas preserved cultural continuity to how they envisioned their roles as pathfinders toward times to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNahua Horizons \u003c\/i\u003echallenges the notion that the Spanish erased Nahua culture. The book emphasizes the ways people kept sovereignty over the futures they envisioned for themselves and their communities. Stear’s bold new approach follows the paths that Nahuas forged ahead into unknown times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57427697631576,"sku":"9780816552917","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/nahua-horizons","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}