- Altepetl
The altepetl, in
Pre-Columbian and Spanish conquest-eraAztec society, was the local, ethnically based political entity. The word is a combination of the Nahuatl words "ā-tl", meaning "water," and "tepē-tl", meaning "mountain."
Nahuatl scholarsLisa Sousa ,Stafford Poole , and James Lockhart have stated:A characteristic
They prefer the Nahuatl term over any English-language approximation. They argue that in many of the documents pertaining to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the word "āltepētl" is often used as a translation of the Spanish "Ciudad de México" (Nahua mode was to imagine the totality of the people of a region or of the world as a collection of altepetl units and to speak of them on those terms. [La Vega, p. 36]Mexico City ), a translation that has colored the interpretation of the texts and conceptions of Nahua society.References
:cite book |author=aut|García Martínez, Bernardo |year=2001 |chapter=Community Kingdoms: Central Mexico (Nahua) |editor=Davíd Carrasco |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=vol. 1, pp. 238–239 |isbn=0-19-510815-9 |oclc=44019111: cite book |author=aut|Gibson, Charles |authorlink=Charles Gibson (historian) |origyear=1964 |year=1983 |title=The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810 |location=Stanford |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0-8047-0912-2 |oclc=9359010: cite book |title=The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso De LA Vega's Huei Tlamahuicoltica of 1649 |author=La Vega, Luis Lasso De; Sousa, Lisa; Poole, Stafford; Lockhart, James |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780804734837: cite book |author=aut|Lockhart, James |authorlink=James Lockhart (historian) |origyear=1992 |year=1996 |title=The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries |location=Stanford |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=0-8047-2317-6 |oclc=24283718:cite book |author=aut|Noguez, Xavier |year=2001 |chapter=Altepetl |editor=Davíd Carrasco |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=vol. 1, pp. 12–13 |isbn=0-19-510815-9 |oclc=44019111
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*Ñuu (Mixtec)
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