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We must remember that the Aztecs & Maya had writing systems. We lost most
of the llatter to Bishop Landa's zeal to purge away paganerrors, but
Bernardino de Sahagun and his confereres did much to preserve and interpret
Aztecs codies. Some of them still survive.
On Sublimis deus, see L. Hanke, "Pope Paul III and the American Indians,"
Harvard Theological Review 30 (1937): 65-102.
On the perils of Western translations of the gospel in Nahua, see Burkhart,
Louise M., The slippery earth : Nahua-Christian moral dialogue in
sixteenth-century Mexico (Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1989)
On Bernardino, see Bernardino de Sahagun, first anthropologist / Miguel
León-Portilla ; translation by Mauricio J. Mixco. (Norman : University of
Oklahoma Press, c2002).
For his larger Franciscan context, see The millennial kingdom of the
Franciscans in the New World. / John Leddy Phelan, 2d ed. rev.
(Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970).
Tom Izbicki
At 04:42 PM 2/19/2003 -0300, CF wrote:
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>Not my area of expertise, either, but I think it was a Franciscan,
>Bernardino de Sahagún, who first put in writing the language spoken by some
>of the the natives of Nueva España (New Spain, today's Mexico).
>And I think it was Bartolomé de las Casas who argued that indians had souls,
>and although both of them were from the 16thC, neither of them was in South
>America.
>
>Christina
>
>
>
>Not my area of expertise, but didn't a 16th C Dominican make a writing
>system for an indigenous South American language... later (back in Spain)
>arguing that the "indians" must have souls, since they had a fully developed
>human language...
>Others will know more of this.
>TGD
>
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