James Lockhart (historian)

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James Marvin Lockhart is a U.S. historian specializing in the history of colonial Latin America. He is an expert in the study of historical sources in the Nahuatl language and the postcolonial Nahua people. He is professor emeritus at UCLA.

A prolific scholar his important works are many. A partial bibliography includes such titles as:

• Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period (with Frances Karttunen, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976),
• Beyond the Codices: The Nahua View of Colonial Mexico (with Arthur J. O. Anderson and Frances Berdan, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1976),
• The Art of Nahuatl Speech: The Bancroft Dialogues (ed., with Frances Karttunen, Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1987),
• Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press; and Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1991)
• The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992).
• Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation of Its Adverbs,(1645), Horacio Carochi, James Lockhart (translator)(Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001).

[edit] References

• profile of James Lockhart at the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive