I'd highly recommend this text to scholar and casual reader alike. The way humans choose, prepare, and eat food is often deeply influenced not only by personal taste but also by cultural background. Un libro muy interesante sobre la vida de Malintzin. Townsend deftly walks the fine line between historical documentation and informed speculation to rewrite the history of the conquest of Mexico. Overall, this author gave me a lot to think about and I do appreciate that at the very least. Malinche was very important for Cortes.
Only the name of her own altepetl is at all subject to doubt. Camilla Townsend's research is excellent. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. Definitely one of those books that you can pick up and actually enjoy reading just for the story. This is one the best-researched books I have ever read, though, and should be essential reading for anyone looking for an understanding of Mexica during the conquest.
Maria and her young stepmother had issues , Beatriz critized her for having Indian blood. For a slave to have been brought from Jalisco in that era would have been virtually impossible; he must have copied some notes incorrectly. I always wonder what would happen if I used the shampoo that Heidi Klum advertises but it might make my hair too oily or too dry. The slaves then had nowhere to go and no way to support themselves. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook.
Not only do the poems link together, but the authors do as well. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Malintzin's Choices are 9780826334060, 0826334067 and the print ISBNs are 9780826334053, 0826334059. So Eliza and her sons run away, but are eventually captured by slave hunters. My problem with this book is not that it's narrative history, but that it comes too close to the realm of historical fiction. The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated.
La historiadora hizo una investigación con gran rigurosidad y que, a pesar de ello, no resulta en una obra para iniciados, al contrario, es asequible para cualquier interesado. There is advice given and it is up to the judgment of the person to which category they will fall into. The first half of this book was an incredible exploration of finding the lost voice of a historical figure and, in doing so, finding the voice of many who have been suppressed or presumed mute due to lack of written records. Free will is defined as having the ability to make our own choices. It is a book that will be extremely valuable for classrooms but also makes an important contribution to the academic literature. El libro termina que los hijos, y los hijos de los hijos, siguieron siendo leales y honorables a Doña Marina, algo que en México le hemos negado. Weaving indigenous and Spanish sources the author not only provides contextual depth to understanding Malintzin's critical role as translator and cultural interpreter for Cortes, but in the process she illuminates the broader panorama of choices experienced by both indigenous and Spanish participants.
If she managed to make something more out of her life--and she did--it is difficult to say at what point she did wrong. Throughout the conquering of Mexico, Cortes and Malintzin resulted in having a child together, however Cortes took their son, Don Martin, back to Spain with him leaving Malintzin behind when her values were no longer needed. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. She doesn't know who betrayed her, the Aztec army may have attacked her village and held her as a pow turned over by traders. Sin ser propiamente una biografía, la narrativa nos adentra en el mundo en que vivieron M Muy agradable e informativa lectura que plasma una visión sin prejuicios de una etapa tan importante de nuestra historia, siendo el eje central la figura de Doña Marina Malintzin. Drawing on Spanish and Aztec language sources, she breathes new life into an old tale, and offers insights into the major issues of conquest and colonization, including technology and violence, resistance and accommodation, gender and power.
Pero me ha gustado el final, y ha logrado lo que quisiéramos de un libro: cambiar nuestra visión de mundo, y sobre cómo entendemos nuestro pasado. With the aid of the Tlaxcala the Spanish where able to press on forward toward Tenochtitlan. Si bien es un libro para historiadores, la autora sabe manejar el lenguaje para hacerlo accesible a t Este libro merece 5 estrellas por muchas razones. Malinche appears as symbol, as a historical conundrum, and as an actor in one of history's most fascinating dramas. My only quibble would be that so much of what is in this book overlaps with her other book, Fifth Sun.
She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. Townsend does away with all that and retraces Malinztin's steps through every source - Spanish and indigenous I've never read history done this way. There is little information about this woman's life, as she left none of her own records, but Townsend does an excellent job of uncovering what she can and providing a complex and sympathetic look at a woman who did what she could to survive, rescuing both her history and her reputation from those who call her a traitor. The result is a portrayal of Malintzin as a complex human being forced by circumstances to confront change and adaptation in order to survive. Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521.