Nahuatl Nations: Language Revitalization and Semiotic Sovereignty in Indigenous Mexico

Nahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Magnus Pharao Hansen studies how this relation has been shaped by history and how it plays out today in Indigenous Nahua towns, regions, and educational institutions, and in the Mexican diaspora.

Based on long-term fieldwork in several Nahuatl speaking com...