PIPILA

[Jeff Burnham]

Friends of Nahuatl,

William Fowler, Jr., author of the University of Oklahoma title
mentioned below, is in the anthropology department at Vanderbilt
University.

Best,

Jeff

 Date:          Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:32:22 -0600
> Reply-to:      nahuat-l at server.umt.edu
> From:          "Kay A. Read" <kread at condor.depaul.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <nahuat-l at server.umt.edu>
> Subject:       Re: PIPILA

> 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:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Jeff Burnham
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