Tlallamiquiliztli inelhuayo
Roots of memory

Author(s): Crispín Martínez Rosas
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Mexico; Nahua culture; novel in Nahuatl; Nahuatl language; literature in Indigenous language; Nahua communities; Indigenous beliefs; land dispute
Summary/Abstract: lallamiquiliztli inelhuayo is a novel in the Nahuatl language written by Crispín Martínez Rosas, an Indigenous author from a Nahua community in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Enriched with descriptions of local customs and beliefs, it immerses us in the reality of the inhabitants of a small, Native village engaged in a dispute over land with Church and government-backed paramilitary forces in the 1970s.

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