PIPILA

[Kay A. Read]

Hello,

One of the best sources on the Pipil of Central America still is a book by
William R. Fowler Jr., "The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua
Civilizations," University of Oklahoma Press (1989).  I can't remember
where Fowler is located, but the press would know.

Kay Read


At 10:12 AM 9/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello Horacio,
>    After weeks of research at the IHAH library, Wendy Griffin, our
>anthropological adviser determined that the indians that once flourished
in the
>NE Honduran "Ciudad Blanca Archaeological Reserve" where the Pipil.  From what
>little I know, they were indeed nobility from Mexico.  With the abundant
>Quetzalcoatl effigies on the massive ceremonial metates and the precision of
>their work with this very hard igneous rock, I would have consider them master
>artisans.  The few remaining Pech folk in the region are quick to offer a cup
>of "chocolate".
>    How does one contact Lyle Campbell or an authority on the Pipil of
>Nicaragua?  I'm still working on a film, as soon as my fever breaks.
>Regards,
>Ted Danger
>http://www.roatanet.com/ciudadblanca
>
>Frances Karttunen wrote:
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>> I think the common sense of pipiltin as 'nobles' and the Pipil of Central
>> America (who speak a closely related language) is something like 'offspring
>> of a lineage.'  That might or might not imply nobility.  Maybe for the
>> Central Mexicans it did, but not necessarily for the Central Americans.
>>
>> We should try to find out what Lyle Campbell thinks.  He wrote a major
>> grammatical description of Pipil.
>>
>> Fran
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