Schools

bernard Ortiz de Montellano bortiz at earthlink.net
Mon May 22 04:27:00 UTC 2006


Garibay also taught Charles Dibble
Bernard
-----Original Message-----
>From: villas <villas at nyphotostudio.com>
>Sent: May 21, 2006 6:53 PM
>To: David Wright <dcwright at prodigy.net.mx>
>Cc: "Nahuat-l (messages)" <nahuatl at lists.famsi.org>
>Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] Schools
>
>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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