Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar : Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c.1840

Tac, Pablo/ Haas, Lisbeth (EDT)/ Luna, James (ILT)

University of California Press（2011/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520261891
• DDC分類 979.402

Full 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 Luiseno 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. Luiseno 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 Eguia, Cecilia Palmeiro, Laura Leon Llerena, Jussara Quadros, and Heidi Morse, with facing-page translation by Jaime Cortez, Guillermo Delgado, Gildas Hamel, Karl Kottman, Heidi Morse, and Rose Vekony

Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword, by Melvin J. Vernon (Tribal Chair, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction The Life and Writing of Luiseno Scholar Pablo Tac, 1820--1841 Lisbeth Haas Fasten Your Seat Belts, Prepare for Landing: The Travels of Payomkowishum Art Warriors James Luna Part Two: The Manuscript Pablo Tac's Luiseno Grammar and History Pablo Tac's Luiseno-Spanish Dictionary Index