Schools

villas villas at nyphotostudio.com
Sun May 21 22:53:11 UTC 2006


Lets not forget Robert H Barrow.
http://www.hawaii.edu/jcf/Escritos/charlotescritosapp.html
marcos
On May 21, 2006, at 12:51 PM, David Wright wrote:

> Estimados listeros:
>  
> I've long wondered about how accumulated knowledge of Nahuatl grammar 
> was transmited over the years, particularly during the 20th century. I 
> know that Mexican priest and scholar Angel Maria Garibay Kintana was a 
> pioneer and I think I read somewhere that he taught Miguel 
> Leon-Portilla and Thelma Sullivan. Francisco Horcasitas must fit in 
> here somewhere. North of the border several people dabbled in Nahuatl 
> in the 19th century and early 20th centuries, but it seems that Arthur 
> Anderson played an important role in digging in deeper and teaching 
> others. J. Richard Andrews is obviously a key figure, taking full 
> advantage of the phonological and grammatical precision to be found in 
> Carochi's Arte of 1645. His influence is obvious in the grammars and 
> dictionaries of Frances Karttunen and R. Joe Campbell, the pillars of 
> this list. James Lockhart fits in here somewhere and seems to have 
> taught some of the people now publishing translations of old Nahuatl 
> texts. I don't know any of these scholars personally, so I don't have 
> a handle on their relative ages to see the generational perspective. 
> Can anybody out there help me put the pieces together to see some sort 
> of family tree of mentors and disciples? I'm particularly interested 
> in any possible connection between the mid-20th century school of 
> nahuatlatos in Mexico City and the people working in the US. The 
> European school, whose flowering can be seen on Marc Thouvenot's 
> SUP-INFOR website, is another matter, and any data on it would also be 
> most welcome.
>  
> Saludos,
>  
> David Wright
> www.paginasprodigy.com/dcwright
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