Fray ÃÂngel MarÃÂa Garibay Kintana (18 June 1892 â 19 October 1967) was a Mexican Catholic priest, philologist, linguist, historian, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, specifically of the Nahua peoples of the central Mexican highlands. He is particularly noted for his studies and translations of conquest-era primary source documents written in Classical Nahuatl, the lingua franca of Postclassic central Mexico and the then-dominant Aztec empire. Alongside his former student Miguel León-Portilla, Garibay ranks as one of the pre-eminent Mexican authorities on the Nahuatl language and its literary heritage, and as one who has made a significant contribution towards the promotion and preservation of the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico.
Garibay and León-Portilla published texts and scholarly analysis for the study of classical Nahuatl literature, founded the journal , and created the . In the seminar, they taught fundamentals of literature and linguistics to Nahuas, who went on to create a modern Nahuatl literature. In recent years, the relationship between the development of Nahuatl literature as a field and the ideologies of and has been critically examined.
Works
- 1937. La poesÃÂa lÃÂrica azteca. Mexico City: Bajo el signo de ábside, 1937.
- 1940. PoesÃÂa indÃÂgena de la altiplanicie. Mexico City: UNAM.
- 1958. Veinte himnos sacros de los nahuas. Los recogió de los nativos Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun, franciscano, México, UNAM, Instituto de Historia: Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl.
- 1961. Llave del náhuatl: colección de trozos clásicos, con gramática y vocabulario, para utilidad de los principiantes. Editorial Porrúa.
- 1963. Panorama literario de los pueblos nahuas. No. 22. Editorial Porrúa.
- 1964. La literatura de los aztecas. México: J. Mortiz.
- 1965. PoesÃÂa náhuatl. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Historia, Seminario de Cultura Náhuatl.
- 1967. "Códice Carolino": manuscrito anónimo del siglo XVI en forma de adiciones a la primera edición del" Vocabulario de Molina." Estudios de cultura náhuatl 7 (1967): 88.
- 1987. Historia de la literatura nahuatl: Primera parte: ÃÂtapa autónoma: de c. 1430 a 1521;[2]: Segunda parte: El Trauma de la conquista: 1521-1750. Porrúa, 1987.
- 1993. PoesÃÂa náhuatl. 3 vols. Mexico City: UNAM.
- 1997. Panorama literario de los pueblos nahuas. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa.
References
- Torres, VÃÂctor Manuel Hernández, "ÃÂngel MarÃÂa Garibay Kintana: La vida sencilla" in Humanismo mexicano del siglo XX, vol. I Alberto Saladino GarcÃÂa (ed.) Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 2004, 281âÂÂ292. online edition, Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico