| Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, C.1840 First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Tac, Pablo (Author), Haas, Lisbeth (Editor), Luna, James (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0520261895 ISBN-13: 9780520261891 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011036636 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume makes available a remarkable body of writings, the only indigenous account of early nineteenth-century California. Written by Pablo Tac, this work on Luise o language and culture offers a new approach to understanding California's colonial history. Born and raised at Mission San Luis Rey, near San Diego, Pablo Tac became an international scholar. He traveled to Rome, where he studied Latin and other subjects, and produced these historical writings for the Vatican Librarian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti. In this multifaceted volume, Pablo Tac's study is published in the original languages and in English translation. Lisbeth Haas introduces Pablo Tac's life and the significance of the record he left. She situates his writing among that of other indigenous scholars, and elaborates on its poetic quality. Luise o artist James Luna considers Tac's contemporary significance in a series of artworks that bring Pablo Tac into provocative juxtaposition with the present day. Transcribed by Marta Egu a, Cecilia Palmeiro, Laura Le n Llerena, Jussara Quadros, and Heidi Morse, with facing-page translation by Jaime Cortez, Guillermo Delgado, Gildas Hamel, Karl Kottman, Heidi Morse, and Rose Vekony |