Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Townsend, Camilla
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Townsend, Camilla

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort s in his dealings with the Aztec...
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Author: Camilla Townsend
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Language: English
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Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Townsend, Camilla

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

CHF 68.59
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Townsend, Camilla

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

CHF 68.59
Author: Camilla Townsend
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort s in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. Malintzin, at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her do a Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cort s whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest.

The life of the real woman, however, was much more complicated. She was sold into slavery as a child, and eventually given away to the Spanish as a concubine and cook. 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. In getting to know the trials and intricacies with which Malintzin's life was laced, we gain new respect for her steely courage, as well as for the bravery and quick thinking demonstrated by many other Native Americans in the earliest period of contact with Europeans.

In this study of Malintzin's life, Camilla Townsend rejects all the previous myths and tries to restore dignity to the profoundly human men and women who lived and died in those days. 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.



Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 303
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780826334053

About the Author
Townsend, Camilla: - Camilla Townsend is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma and Tales of Two Cities.
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