Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico

Ethnohistory ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
James M. Taggart ◽  
Louise M. Burkhart
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Early Colonial

Marvels of Medicine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yarí Pérez Marín
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Common ◽  
New Form ◽  
Natural Histories

Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation. Unlike the accounts of first explorers, which sought to amaze audiences back in Europe with descriptions of strange and astonishing lands, these texts instead engaged the marvellous in an effort to supersede it, stressing the value of sensorial experience and of verifying information through repetition and demonstration. Vernacular medical writing became an unlikely early platform for a new form of regionally anchored discourse that demanded participation in a global intellectual conversation yet found itself increasingly relegated to the margins. In responding to that challenge, anatomical treatises, natural histories and surgical manuals exceeded the bounds set by earlier templates becoming rich, hybrid narratives that were as concerned with science as with portraying the lives and sensibilities of women and men in early colonial Mexico.

Painting the Aztec Past in Early Colonial Mexico: Translation and Knowledge Production in the Codex Mendoza

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1362-1415
Author(s):  
Daniela Bleichmar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Codex Mendoza ◽  
Knowledge Ontology

The “Codex Mendoza” is one of the earliest, most detailed, and most important postconquest accounts of pre-Hispanic Aztec life. Nahuas and Spaniards manufactured the codex through a complex process that involved translations across media, languages, and cultural framings. Translations made Aztec culture legible and acceptable to nonnative viewers and readers by recasting indigenous practices, knowledge, ontology, and epistemology. Following a stratigraphic approach that examines the process through which natives and Spaniards created a transcultural manuscript, the article examines the multiple interpretations and negotiations involved in producing images, books, and information about the indigenous world in early colonial Mexico.

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