Camilla Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers, New Brunswick. Her two most recent works are Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press, 2019) and (together with Nicky Kay Michael) On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren (Rutgers University Press, 2023), both prize-winning volumes.
Camilla Townsend
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To Understand Aztecs, Listen to Them
Have we who study Indigenous languages only succeeded in making things worse? And if this has happened, is there any way out?
