Everything about Cantares Mexicanos totally explained
The
Cantares Mexicanos is the name given to a manuscript collection of
Nahuatl songs or poems recorded in the
16th century. The 91 songs of the
Cantares form the largest Nahuatl song collection, containg over half of all known traditional Nahuatl songs. It currently located in the
National Library of Mexico in
Mexico City.
A complete transcription and English translation of the
Cantares was published in
1985 by
John Bierhorst as
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs, as well as a dictionary and
concordance. This was the first time the whole of the
Cantares had been translated into a modern language. Although Bierhorst's transcription was appreciated by scholars for its accuracy and faithfulness to the original manuscript, his translations were criticized as misleading and colored by his view that the
Cantares are "ghost songs", part of a colonial
revitalization movement parallel to the
ghost dances of the
Plains Indians.
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