Miguel Leon-Portilla
Vision of the Vanquished, or The Broken Spears by Miguel Leon-Portilla
RevSocialist اش... Fri, 08/13/2010 - 12:26
This book (222pg) edited by the well known Indigenous Scholar Miguel Leon-Portillo is one of the rare books to tell the story of the rape and genocide of mexico from, not only the perspective of the victims, but actually in their words. The book contains several extracts from rare Aztec testimonies of the genocide of mexico, with short introductions by Leon-Portillo to explain the background and peculiarities of the given text.