Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• ROBERT WAUCHOPE
• HOWARD F. CUNE
• Η. Β. Nicholson
• Charles Gibson

Titel

Prose Sources in the Native Historical Tradition

Ist Teil von

• Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15, 2015, p.311

Ort / Verlag

University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Our present usage designates prose as writing in European characters on paper or its equivalent. We exclude carved inscriptions and glyphs. Documents containing both prose writing and pictorial material are for the most part here considered to be pictorial. But pictorial documents containing quite ample and significant prose sections may receive attention in both categories. Because writing in European characters was unknown to Indians prior to the coming of the Spaniards, the prose classification implies a colonial or modern dating. Strictly speaking, there can be no native prose source before white contact. The colonial or modern dating, however, need operate