Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & Acknowledgements vii
4. The Missionaries’ Contribution to Translation Studies in the Spanish Colonial Period 1
5. Part I. New Spain / Nueva España
6. 1.1 Nahuatl
7. Translation Purposes, Target Audiences, and Strategies in Sahagún’s Libro de la Rethorica (c.1577) 53
8. Translation for Colonization and Christianization 85
9. 1.2 Tarascan
10. Remodeling the Tarascan Religious World 113
11. Formas de percibir y nombrar Nuevas realidades 131
12. 1.3 Zapotec
13. Sins and Crimes 161
14. Part II. Asia
15. 2.1 Tamil
16. Shaping Minds and Cultures 203
17. 2.2 Chinese
18. Translation in Chinese Grammars 231
19. 2.3 Japanese
20. Translation of Anatomic terms in two Jesuit Dictionaries of Japanese 251
21. 2.4 Philippine languages
22. Traducción de términos religiosos en los vocabularios filipinos (1565–1800) 273
23. Algo más que construyendo identidades 295
24. Addresses of contributors/Direcciones de los autores 337
25. Index of biographical names/Índice de nombres biográficos 339
26. Index of subjects & terms / Índice de tópicos y términos lingüísticos 343