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"[T]he most authoritative and inspiring anthology of pre-Columbian cultures to appear in any language other than Spanish...[Leon-Portilla] has uneartehd documents that were within our reach but that needed a lucid, patient mind to be explained in full. He has made use of a silent, comparitively marginal field of study, that, in his hand, acquuies unparalleled importance."Earl Shorris is the author of 'In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present', published 2002 under ISBN 9780393324075 and ISBN 0393324079.
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