Miriam Melton-Villanueva
Biographic Data
| ID | 683666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Melton-Villanueva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Melton-Villanueva |
| SIGNATURE | MELTON-VILLANUEVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Práctica autóctona para revitalizar la lengua Náhuatl en comunidades bilingües de México
Debido a que esfuerzos por preservar idiomas tradicionales pueden excluir identidad comunitaria y realidades lingüísticas, enfoques decoloniales buscan minimizar el efecto del español en el náhuatl. Aquí ofrecemos reflexiones que presentan lo contrario: un estudio de la forma histórica en que los hablantes de náhuatl adoptaron el español se aborda como una estrategia decolonial para apoyar la revitalización del náhuatl en el presente. Los académi…
Collaboration, Women's Work, and the Unfinished Story of a Sonoran Tale Collection
From 1976-1978, UCLA PhD student Ronald B. Melton travelled to the state of Sonora in Mexico with his wife, Lily Villanueva Melton, to record legends and folktales for his dissertation research, though he died before he was able to complete the project. Historian Miriam Melton-Villanueva (their daughter) and folklorist Sheila Bock discuss key considerations framing their attempts to present the unfinished story of this tale collection, attending …
Cacicas, Escribanos, and Landholders: Indigenous Women's Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703-1832
Indigenous escribanos, notaries, based in the western part of what is now Mexico State, lived in small highland towns within the regions of Jilotepec and Metepec and wrote the documents studied here. They wrote the land sales, testaments, financial instruments, and powers of attorney for the women featured in this article. Their records described a cross-section of women participating in the civic work of their communities; identified cacicas, wo…
The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and local governance with astonishing vibrancy. The Aztecs at Independence offers the first internal ethnographic view of these central Mexican indigenous c…
Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period
Newly collected testaments from two settlements in the jurisdiction of Metepec in the Toluca Valley reveal that, although scholars believed the great tradition of mundane records in Nahuatl to have lapsed by 1800, it continued on a large scale during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, the independence period so far hardly touched by examinations of indigenous social history. The larger corpus is from San Bartolomé Tlatelolco, whic…
Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period
Newly collected testaments from two settlements in the jurisdiction of Metepec in the Toluca Valley reveal that, although scholars believed the great tradition of mundane records in Nahuatl to have lapsed by 1800, it continued on a large scale during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, the independence period so far hardly touched by examinations of indigenous social history. The larger corpus is from San Bartolomé Tlatelolco, whic…
Cacicas, Escribanos, and Landholders: Indigenous Women's Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703-1832
Indigenous escribanos, notaries, based in the western part of what is now Mexico State, lived in small highland towns within the regions of Jilotepec and Metepec and wrote the documents studied here. They wrote the land sales, testaments, financial instruments, and powers of attorney for the women featured in this article. Their records described a cross-section of women participating in the civic work of their communities; identified cacicas, wo…
Collaboration, Women's Work, and the Unfinished Story of a Sonoran Tale Collection
From 1976-1978, UCLA PhD student Ronald B. Melton travelled to the state of Sonora in Mexico with his wife, Lily Villanueva Melton, to record legends and folktales for his dissertation research, though he died before he was able to complete the project. Historian Miriam Melton-Villanueva (their daughter) and folklorist Sheila Bock discuss key considerations framing their attempts to present the unfinished story of this tale collection, attending …
Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period
Newly collected testaments from two settlements in the jurisdiction of Metepec in the Toluca Valley reveal that, although scholars believed the great tradition of mundane records in Nahuatl to have lapsed by 1800, it continued on a large scale during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, the independence period so far hardly touched by examinations of indigenous social history. The larger corpus is from San Bartolomé Tlatelolco, whic…
The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and local governance with astonishing vibrancy. The Aztecs at Independence offers the first internal ethnographic view of these central Mexican indigenous c…
Cacicas, Escribanos, and Landholders: Indigenous Women's Late Colonial Mexican Texts, 1703-1832
Indigenous escribanos, notaries, based in the western part of what is now Mexico State, lived in small highland towns within the regions of Jilotepec and Metepec and wrote the documents studied here. They wrote the land sales, testaments, financial instruments, and powers of attorney for the women featured in this article. Their records described a cross-section of women participating in the civic work of their communities; identified cacicas, wo…
Collaboration, Women's Work, and the Unfinished Story of a Sonoran Tale Collection
From 1976-1978, UCLA PhD student Ronald B. Melton travelled to the state of Sonora in Mexico with his wife, Lily Villanueva Melton, to record legends and folktales for his dissertation research, though he died before he was able to complete the project. Historian Miriam Melton-Villanueva (their daughter) and folklorist Sheila Bock discuss key considerations framing their attempts to present the unfinished story of this tale collection, attending …
Práctica autóctona para revitalizar la lengua Náhuatl en comunidades bilingües de México
Debido a que esfuerzos por preservar idiomas tradicionales pueden excluir identidad comunitaria y realidades lingüísticas, enfoques decoloniales buscan minimizar el efecto del español en el náhuatl. Aquí ofrecemos reflexiones que presentan lo contrario: un estudio de la forma histórica en que los hablantes de náhuatl adoptaron el español se aborda como una estrategia decolonial para apoyar la revitalización del náhuatl en el presente. Los académi…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Latin American history and culture (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Historical Studies in Latin America (2 works) · History (2 works)