November 1988, Number 6
The Nahua Newsletter
With support from the Department
of Anthropology
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Alan R.
Sandstrom, Editor
A Publication of the Indiana
University
Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies
Brad R. Huber, Editor
Welcome to the sixth issue of The Nahua Newsletter. The number of subscribers has increased considerably over the past two and one-half years. This issue was sent to 189 specialists in Nahua physical anthropology, prehistory, linguistics, ethnohistory and contemporary culture, as well as to 38 institutions--Latin American studies centers, libraries, and publishers.
Nahua scholars continue to be very active. This issue contains news of recent publications, fellowships, an NEH summer institute, applied research in Guadalajara, a meeting of medical anthropologists in Mexico City, etc. From Wednesday, November 16 to Sunday, November 20, a large number of people will be participating in the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Phoenix.
Since the first issue of The Nahua Newsletter appeared in February 1986, it has been suggested on occasion that subscribers work more closely with each other (e.g., formally organize, affiliate with another academic association, publish a journal). It is the editor's opinion that we should now decide whether we want to more closely coordinate our activities as researchers, teachers, bibliographers, and publishers. Reader comments would be very welcome on this topic.
The directory in this issue is meant to update and supplement the 39-page directory of Issue 5. A limited number of Issues 1-5 are still available. However, the editor would appreciate that requests be accompanied with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
The editor wishes to thank Alan Sandstrom, Indiana-Purdue University, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, and SUNY-Albany's Institute for Mesoamerican Studies. They made the typing, copying, and mailing of this issue possible. As a consequence, subscriptions to the Newsletter are still free. However, individuals who wish to receive the next issue are asked to fill out Item 1 of the "Subscription Form" at the end of this Newsletter, and return it to:
Brad R. Huber, Editor
The Nahua Newsletter
30 Calvert Hall
St. Mary's College
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Telephone: (301) 737-0042 (H)
If you have not filled out Items 2-5 in the past, or wish to update your entry in the directory, please feel free to do so. The next issue will come out in February 1989.
The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
will be held in Phoenix, on November 16-20, 1988. Sessions of
interest to Nahua specialists include the following:
Thursday Morning, November 17
8:00-10:45 Effects of Mesoamerican Polities in an Interactive Framework.
Organizers/Chairs: John Chance, Barbara L. Stark, Emily Umberger. Papers by: Gary M. Feinman, Robert S. Stantley, Barbara L. Stark, Mary E. Miller, Emily Umberger, Ross Hassig, John K. Chance. Discussants: Richard Blanton, Frank Salomon
Friday Morning, November 18
8:00-10:15 Encountering the Aztecs: Five Centuries of Nahua Culture, History and Language--Part I (Society for Latin American Anthropology). Organizers: Louise M. Burkhart and Alan R. Sandstrom. Chair: Alan R. Sandstrom. Papers by: Eloise Quinones-Keber, Bon V. Davis II, Una Canger, Frances Karttunen, James M. Taggart, Kay A. Read, H. B. Nicholson
9:00-11:30 Rural Life in Aztec-Period Morelos, Mexico. Organizer/Chair: Michael E. Smith. Papers by: Michael E. Smith, Jerrel H. Sorensen, Cheryl A. Sutherland, Cynthia Heath-Smith, T. Jeffrey Price, Osvaldo J. Sterpone, Scott O'Mack. Discussants: Kenneth G. Hirth, Frances F. Berdan
Friday Afternoon, November 18
2:00-4:30 Encountering the Aztecs: Five Centuries of Nahua Culture, History and Language--Part II. Organizers/Chairs: Louise M. Burkhart and Alan R. Sandstrom. Papers by: Robert Haskett, Stephanie Wood, Louise Burkhart, Thomas L. Grigsby, Frances F. Berdan, Susan M. Kellogg, Alan R. Sandstrom, Pedro Carrasco
2:00-4:15 XXVII Conference on American Indian Languages: California and Uto-Aztecan Languages. Organizer: Louanna Furbee. Chair: Victor Golla. Papers by: James L. Armagost, T. Givon, Karen Dakin, Geoffrey Gamble, Catherine A. Callaghan, Marianne Mithum, Sandra A. Thompson, Margaret Langdon Additional information about the Meeting can be found in September 1988's Anthropology Newsletter.
1. J. Jorge Klor de Alva. H. B. Nicholson. and Eloise Ouiñones Keber, eds. The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Aztec Mexico. IMS and University of Texas, 1988. (Available from UT Press; paperback, 372 pp., $25.00; from NEWTEXAS announcement: "A landmark collection of articles on the work of. . . Sahagún, the most important missionary- ethnographer of the New World and the widely recognized father of American anthropology. Articles by well-known ethnohistorians, ethnographers, linguists, and art historians represent the most up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge available on Sahagun's role in the history of anthropology and help in understanding his major writings on Aztec culture.")
2. Jesus Monjaras-Ruiz. Elena Limón R., and Maria de la Cruz Pailles H. (eds). Tlatelolco; Rival de Tenochtitlan: Obras de Robert H. Barlow. (Vol. 1), INAH-UDLA. This book is about Tlatelolco's history from 1325 to 1521, including two epochs: Tlatelolco free and Tlatelolco subjected to Tenochtitlan. It was an unedited work found in Barlow's personal archive. Copies are available at $12 (.U.S.) from:
3. Sylvia Marcos. "Curing and Cosmology: The Challenges of Popular Medicines," Development: Seeds of Change 1987:1, 20-25.
4. Sylvia Marcos. "Women, Cosmology and Medicine: Mexican Healers." (A paper in an edited book to be published by the Colegio de Mexico.)
Abstract:
The study of traditional curing practices in Mexico is inseparable from the cosmology in which they are rooted. The predominance of women in traditional Mexican healing makes gender analysis pertinent as a dimension of therapeutic, spiritual, and community powers.
We attempt to reinsert contemporary curing practices into the study of long term movements and mentalities. These practices are rooted in a complex conceptual and perceptual framework in which elements of the ancient Mesoamerican cosmology still survive.
Methodologically, the study explores the possibilities of a systematic confrontation of relevant primary and secondary sources with modern field studies on popular curative practices in Mexico. We proceed from the hypothesis that there are certain kinds of relationships between the underlying contemporary healing practices and ancient. Mesoamerican cosmology.
We will approach rigorously and respectfully a cosmogony in which the feminine plays a relevant role. In such a civilization the feminine presence permeates all levels: sacred and profane, daily and ritual, family and macrosocial. We assert that the experience of being a woman in such a society is profoundly different.
The feminine areas of action and power reviewed in this study are those of a symbolic and religious order set in the context of the Mesoamerican pantheon and found in the practice of an essential social function: medicine.
In an effort to hear the female voice, the voice of the curers, we have gathered their definitions of their work and their self-perceptions in order to understand how they view their medical commitment. Interviews were carried out, life histories collected, and various monographs were consulted. The study approaches the curing and personal experiences of these medicine women, who are revealed as authority figures, and places their curing practice in the rich framework of Mesoamerican cosmology.
DUMBARTON OAKS AWARDS FOR 1989-90 IN BYZANTINE STUDIES, PRE-COLUMBIAN STUDIES, AND STUDIES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE.
Fellowships: Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in the three areas of Byzantine studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and studies in Landscape Architecture.
1. Junior Fellowships: for students who at the time of application have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a Ph.D. (or appropriate final degree) and will be working on a dissertation or final project at Dumbarton Oaks under the direction of a faculty member at their own university. In exceptional cases applications may be accepted from students before they have fulfilled preliminary requirements.
2. Fellowships: for scholars who hold a doctorate (or appropriate final degree) or have established themselves in their field and wish to pursue their own research. Applications will also be accepted from graduate students who expect to have the Ph.D. in hand prior to taking up residence at Dumbarton Oaks. NB. Successful applicants will revert to the status and stipend of Junior Fellows if the degree has not been conferred.
3. Summer Fellowships: for scholars (on any level of advancement)
who are not incumbent fellows.
Fellowships are not renewable, but consideration will be given
to applications for an academic year and a summer, or, in exceptional
cases, two successive years (two annual fellowships, and possibly
an intervening summer fellowship). Reappointments of former fellows
are not normally made before five years have elapsed since the
tenure of the previous fellowship. This restriction does not apply
to former Summer Fellows requesting regular fellowships, or former
Junior Fellows and Fellows requesting summer fellowships.
All fellows are expected to be able to communicate satisfactorily
in English.
(See separate flyer for non-residential fellowships in Byzantine
Studies.)
PROJECTS
Dumbarton Oaks also makes grants to assist with scholarly projects
in the three fields with which it is concerned. These may cover
modest expenses for photography, supplies, special services, and
sometimes travel-although Dumbarton Oaks does not make travel
grants as such. Nor are grants made for work associated with a
degree or library research. Before applying, prospective applicants
should make a preliminary inquiry no later than November 1 of
the appropriate Director of Studies to determine if their project
is within the purview of Dumbarton Oaks. If so, they will be sent
the application procedure. Applications complete in 10 copies
must be postmarked no later than November 15. N.B. Awards
are made for projects conducted in the fiscal year beginning July
1, 1989. See reverse side for terms of fellowships and procedures
for application.
The deadline for submission of applications for all awards
is November 15. Awards will be announced in mid-February,
and must be accepted by March 1.
1. Frances Karttunen (University of Texas-Austin), wrote in a letter dated May 17, 1988: "Here is a preliminary announcement of an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers that will be held in UT-Austin in 1989. Do tell friends and colleagues about it. The NEH is very concerned that we attract applications from broad spectrum of scholars/teachers--not just from linguists. [For example,] we hope for applications from people in Mexican-American studies, [as well as] medievalists, though I certainly don't think of the sixteenth-century as the Middle Ages. In sum, applications are welcome from every quarter, though NEH eligibility does require that applicants be teachers at US universities and colleges (including 2-year community colleges)."
With respect to the following announcement, please note that "Miguel Leon-Portilla has since been asked by President Salinas to remain at his post as Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. His place at the institute will be taken by Louise Burkhart and J. Richard Andrews as guest faculty along with Dennis Tedlock for the Translation Track. We are currently printing posters and application forms, which we will mail out soon. The deadline for receipt of applications will be February 15, 1989, and applicants will be notified of decisions in March.
Announcing an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers:
RE-CREATING THE NEW WORLD CONTACT:
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES OF LATIN AMERICA
This institute will take place at the Institute of Latin Studies at the University of Texas at Austin early in the summer of 1989, will last 6 weeks, and is open to forty-five teachers at US universities and colleges (including community colleges). The purpose of the institute is to provide teachers with new material for innovative curriculum development appropriate to the 1992 Columbian Quincentennial Commemoration. Teachers of Latin American history and literature, precolumbian art, social history, and anthropology are especially invited to apply. No linguistic training is required. Knowledge of Spanish is useful but not absolutely essential. Most of the literature will be available in English translation.
There will be three tracks scheduled so that participants may attend any combination of track activities.
Track 1: Nahuatl language
This track will combine a course in the fundamentals of Nahuatl grammar taught by Frances Karttunen, author of An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, with daily sessions with a speaker of Nahuatl conducted by R. Joe Cambell, author of A Morphological Dictionary of Classical Nahuatl.
Track 2: Indigenous literatures of Mesoamerica and the Andes.
The Mesoamerican half of this track will deal
with the written literature of Nahuatl and several of the Mayan
languages and will be taught by Frances Karttunen. The Andean
half will be taught by Margot Beyersdorff of the University of
Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, who is a veteran
translator of Quechua literature. "
Track 3: Translation of indigenous literature of Latin America.
During the first two weeks of this track, Fritz Hensey, a member of the University of Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a specialist in translation, will deal with translation theory. Following this Miguel León-Portilla and Dennis Tedlock, both distinguished translators of Mesoamerican literature, will lecture on the specific problems of such translation. The final week of this track will host a symposium of translators of Mesoamerican and Andean literature.
Throughout the six weeks there will be evening lectures by local and visiting scholars.
For additional information and application material available after September 1, please contact:
Frances Karttunen, Director
Summer Institute '89
Institute of Latin American Studies
Sid Richardson Hall 1.311
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, TX 78712
2. J. Jorge Klor de Alva notes that the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (SUNY- Albany) with the National Quincentenary Commissions of Spain and Mexico, the Government of Extremadura, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, hosted the first of three conferences of their research and publication project titled: IN WORD AND DEED: INTERETHNIC ENCOUNTERS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEW WORLD. The inaugural conference was held at SUNY-Albany, October 9-14, 1988. Twenty-four scholars from Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. presented papers on the theme "Civilization and Barbarism: Reciprocal Images." For more information write: J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Director: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, SS263, State University of New York-Albany; Albany, NY 12222 (phone: (518) 442-4891 or 489-5806).
3. Carlos Sandoval Linares described in a note to the editor the aims, activities, and work strategies of the Instituto Cultural Cabanas in Guadalajara. He and other members of the Instituto investigate, conserve, and diffuse the cultural heritage of Mexico using images from prehispanic codices. They published many articles about Aztec culture and two coloring books ("Animals" and "Tlacuilocatzintli"--child painter) for children. In addition, they have organized a didactic exposition which traveled through the Guadalajara metropolitan area; they promote Mexican music, and they teach the Nahuatl language. In the recent Tlahcuilo (the painter) workshop, they studied published materials on Nahuatl pictographic writing.
The activities of the Instituto have created considerable public interest in Guadalajara. Their efforts are supported by the state government, the city councils of Zapopan, Guadalajara, Tlaquepaque and Tonala, local Nahua language and philosophy study groups, musical groups, and other private organizations. The expansion of the Institute's activities was achieved in part by the support of the local radio and press.
4. J. F. Schwaller (Florida Atlantic University) wrote a letter to the editor, dated July 18, 1988, which says in part: "Recently, several of us Nahuatl scholars, at the behest of Dr. Miguel León-Portilla, met in Paris for three days to begin an international program to catalogue all Nahuatl manuscripts in the world, and to implement a program of rescue on the endangered ones. As the .final working papers of the meeting come available, I will send them on to you to help inform other scholars in the field."
"I would also like to report that a separate publication of the Three Guides to Nahuatl Manuscripts has been recently issued by UNAM in Mexico. I have several extra copies and would be glad to share them with any scholars who are interested."
5. Sylvia Marcos (Centro de Investigaciones Psicoetnologicas-Cuernavaca) wrote that
INAH's Department of Ethnology and Social Anthropology organized a series of meetings in the Spring of 1988 for scholars interested in medical anthropology. The schedule of the meetings, the names of the participants and their institutional affiliations are reprinted below.
1988 PROGRAMA DE DIVULGACION
AREA DE ANTROPOLOGIA MEDICA
DEPARTAMENTO DE ETNOLOGIA Y ANTROPOLOGIA
SOCIAL DEL INAH.
ALGUNOS PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACION
SOBRE ANTROPOLOGIA MEDICA EN MEXICO
PROGRAMA
I
Tema: El estudio de la diarrea infantil en México.
Fecha: Jueves 28 de abril, 11:00 hs.
Participantes:
Dr. Luis Vargas, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
UNAM.
Dr. Leticia Casillas
Dr. Alberta Isunza, Instituto Nacional de Nutrición
Dr. Homero Martínez, Instituto Nacional de Nutrición
II
Tema: Proyectos de rescate y animación de la medicina
en medias populares
Fecha: Jueves 26 de Mayo, 11:00 hs.
Participantes:
Dr. Paul Hersch Centra Regional de Morelos INAH
Dr. Enrique Cifuentes Instituto Nacional de Nutrición
Biól. Salvador Morelos Ochoa SEDUE
Audiovisual
III
Tema: Medicina Tradicional y plantas medicinales
Fecha: Jueves 30 de Junio, 11:00 hs.
Participantes:
Biól. Arturo Argueta, Las plantas medicinales en la región
purépecha
Biól. Edelmira Linares, Jardín Botánico
UNAM
Usos pasados y presentes de algunas plantas medicinales y su
mercado en México.
Hist. Elsa Malvido y Biól. Silvia del
Amo. Depto. De Estudios Históricos del INAH.
Las plantas medicinales y su uso en el siglo XIX.
Dr. Carlos Zolla y Dra. Virginia Mellado, Unidad de Investigación
en Medicinas tradicionales y desarrollo de medicamentos IMSS.
Enfermedades y plantas medicinales on 3025 pueblos de México
IV
Tema: Enfermedades Tradicionales
Fecha: Jueves 28 de Julio, 11:00 hs.
Participantes:
Dr. Alberto Guerrero, Centro Regional de Morelos INAH
Etnosiquiatría: Mal de Ojo y Susto.
Antrop. Yolanda Sasoon, (Depto de Museos y Exposiciones INAH)
El susto y el mal aire.
Biólogo Abigaíl Aguilar Contreras y Biól.
Juan Raúl Camacho (IMSS)
El susto y la Etnobotánica
Dr. Carlos Zolla y Dra. Virginia Mellado,
(Unidad de Investigación en Medicinas tradicionales y
desarrollo de medicamentos IMSS)
Cinco enfermedades tradicionales
V
Tema: La medicina tradicional y las mujeres.
Fecha: Jueves 25 de Agosto, 11:00 hs.
Participantes:
Pslgo. Sylvia Marcos, Colegio de Mexico "Las curanderas
de Mexico: mujeres, cosmovision y medicina.
Antrop. Noemí Quezada, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas
UNAM. "Concepción y contracepción en la Medicina
Tradicional en Mexico.
Dr. Carlos Zolla y Dra. Virginia Mellado, Campos Embarazo y parto
en el mundo (IMSS) rural. Audiovisual
Lugar: Sala de Juntas del Departamento de Etnología y
Antropología Social del INAH.
Exconvento del Carmen, Av. Revolución #4 San Angel. Mexico
20, D.F.
Rolena Adorno
Department of Romance Languages
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1275
Telephone: (313) 764-5344
Jonathan D. Amith
Apdo. Postal 21-693
04000 Coyoacan
Mexico D.F.
MEXICO
NAHUA CULTURE AND LANGUAGE. Intervillage relations in context of market development, land tenure and use, and demography. Colonial period to modern. Fieldwork in central Guerrero, Balsas River region. Colonial and modern Nahuatl.
Louise Burkhart
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Telephone: Home (202) 337-8397
Office (202) 342-3278
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY RELIGION, CULTURE CONTACT. My dissertation, "The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico," will be published by the University of Arizona Press in Spring of 1989. I am now writing a book on the integration of the cult of the Virgin Mary into Nahua culture, using a wide variety of devotional texts in Nahuatl as well as iconographic and ethnographic materials. My paper on the "solar Christ" appeared in the Summer 1988 issue of Ethnohistory.
John K. Chance
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Telephone: (602) 965-6213
COLONIAL ETHNOHISTORY
Profesor Alejandro Contreras Alexanderson
Casa de la Cultura Jalisciense
Constituyentes y Calzada Independencia Sur, Guadalajara, Jalisco,
México
Telephone: 415-430
N. Ross Crumrine
1670 Earlston Ave.
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada V8P 2Z7
NORTHWEST MEXICO
Darl J. Dumont
P.O. Box 4806
Santa Barbara, CA 93140
Telephone: (805) 687-8666
UTO-AZTECAN LINGUISTICS
Marc Eisinger
49 rue Auguste Lancon
F-75013 Paris
Telephone: 33 (1) 45887220
e-mail: EISINGER AT FRpoiI77 ON EARN/BITNET
Beverly J. Fogelson
1702 Northwood Blvd.
Royal Oak, MI 48073
Telephone: (313) 543-4052
Professor Charles Hale
Department of History
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Brad R. Huber
30 Calvert Hall
St. Mary's College
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
Telephone: (301) 737-0042 (H)
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, RELIGION, MEDICINE. Several ongoing research projects in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico: (1) Sociodemographic change; (2) Contemporary Nahuat illness beliefs, medical practices and specialists; and (3) Nahaut religion and ritual; recently published an article in Ethnology (October 1987) entitled "The Reinterpretation and Elaboration of Fiestas in a Nahuat-Speaking Community in Mexico."
Jerry King
Cherokee Center
Route 2, Box 463
Lavonia, GA 30553
Frances Karttunen
Linguistics Research Center
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222
Telephone: (518) 442-4991
(518) 489-5806
NAHUA ETHNOHISTORY, NAHUAS UNDER SPANISH RULE
AND RESISTANCE TO SPANISH DOMINATION. "Nahua Colonial Discourse
and the Appropriation of the (European) Other," in Klor
de Alva & Gossen, eds. IN WORD AND DEED (IMS &
U of Texas, forthcoming); "Contar Vidas: La Autobiografia
Confesional y la Reconstruccion del Ser Nahua," ARBOR
(Madrid, forthcoming); "Language, Politics, and Translation:
Colonial Discourse and Classical Nahuatl in New Spain,"
in Warren, ed. REINCARNATIONS: LECTURES ON LITERARY TRANSLATION
(Northeastern Univ., forthcoming); "Aztec Spirituality and
Nahuatized Christianity," in Gossen & Leon-Portilla,
eds. WORLD SPIRITUALITY: VOL. FOUR, MESOAMERICA AND SOUTH
AMERICA (Crossroad, forthcoming); "Colonizing Souls:
The Failure of the Indian Inquisition and the Rise of Penitential
Discipline," in Perry & Cruz, eds.
CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: THE IMPACT OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD (UCLA, forthcoming); Klor de Alva, Nicholson, Quinones Keber, eds. THE WORK OF BERNARDINO DE SAHAGUN (IMS & U of Texas, 1988).
George Lang
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6 Canada
Telephone: (403) 429-4208
THE AZTEC IMAGE IN WESTERN THOUGHT. Old World/New World encounters in the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing a book on the topic of pre-modern travel literature.
Elena Limón R.
Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
Instituto de Estudios Avanzados
Santa Catarina Mártir 72820
Apdo. Postal 100 Cholula, Puebla
México
Telephone: 470807
ETHNOHISTORY. MA Thesis research "Prehispanic Tlaxcala." Working with Dr. Pedro Carrasco in "The Triple Alianza" Seminar. Subject: "La frontera con Tlaxcala." Contribution to HISTORIA DE LA ANTROPOLOGIA EN MEXICO, edited by Carlos García Mora, INAH, 1987, with "Historia de la revista 'Mesoamerican Notes'." Co-editor of Robert Barlow's complete works, first volume: TLATELOLCO RIVAL DE TENOCHTITLAN, INAH-UDLA, 1987. Working on Barlow's second volume: TLATELOLCO. FUENTES E HISTORIA.
Geoffrey G. McCafferty
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13901
Sharisse D. McCafferty
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13901
Norma B. Mikkelsen
University of Utah Press
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Telephone: (801) 581-6771
PRE- AND POST-CONQUEST IN VALLEY OF MEXICO. Acquiring and editing manuscripts in Mesoamerican Studies including (press titles) this year: Munro S. Edmonson, "The Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems"; Luis Nicolau D'Olwer, "Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, 1499-1590," trans. Mauricio J. Mixco; Alfredo Lopez Austin, "The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas," trans. Thelma Ortiz de Montellano and Bernard Ortiz de Montellano; Thelma Sullivan, "Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar," trans. Thelma Sullivan, Neville Stile; ed. Wick R. Miller, Karen Dakin.
Bill Mills
1103 N. Fess
Bloomington, IN 47401
Telephone: (812) 334-1542
e-mail: Mills@Silver.Bacs.Indiana.Edu.
MODERN DIALECTS. Preparing vocabulary of Nahuatl dialect spoken in Veracruz.
Hjordis Nielsen
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Albany
Albany, New York 12222
Telephone: (518) 442-4720
ETHNOHISTORY. I have worked mainly with 16th century central Mexican materials. Currently, I am working with the tribute documents called the Tetzcocan Tradition. My main interests are Nahuatl language and literature; social, political, and economic organization of the Triple Alliance, Tenochtitlan-Tetzcoco-Tlacopan.
Profesor Ismael Ortiz Barba, Coordinator
Centro Municipal de la Cultura en Zapopan
Vicente Guerrero 111, Zapopan, Jalisco
México
Telephone: 332-412
Berthold Riese
Grumewaldstr. 47
D-1000 Berlin 41
W. Germany
Telephone: (030) 792-44-30
PRE-COLUMBIAN AND COLONIAL AZTEC LITERATURE AND SOCIETY. An exhibit of "Mesoamerican Pictorials" focusing on different types of pre-columbian and early colonial documents will be shown in December 1988/January 1989 at the Central Library of the Free University of Berlin. An illustrated catalogue will also be published.
Profesor Rubén Romero Galván
Dpto. de Historia
UNAM Mexico, D.F
Mexico 04510
Profesor Carlos Sandoval Linares
Coordinator de Tlahcuilo
Taller de escritura pictografica Nahuatl
Instituto Cultural Cabanas
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexico
Telephone: 17-67-34
18-57-38
Alan R. Sandstrom
Department of Anthropology
Indiana-Purdue University
2101 Coliseum Boulevard East
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
I have just finished the first draft of a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled "Corn is Our Blood: Continuity, Change and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village of Northern Veracruz, Mexico." The work is based on extensive fieldwork in a small (500 pop.) Nahua village in the southern Huasteca region. The book takes the perspective that many village cultural features serve to create an identity which effectively resists domination by local mestizo elites and provides the Indians with economic and political advantages.
Susan Schroeder
Department of History
Loyola University of Chicago
820 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: (312) 251-9190
(312) 670-3079
ANALYSIS OF SOCIOPOLITICAL CONCEPTS IN THE WRITINGS OF CHIMALPAHIN. "Chimalpahin's View of Spanish Religious in Mexico," in Indian-Religious Relations jn Early Colonial Spanish America," edited by Susan Ramírez, Syracuse University Press, forthcoming. "Indigenous Sociopolitical Organization in the Works of Chimalpahin," in Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico, edited by Herbert Harvey, University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming. In preparation for publication of a work tentatively entitled "Chimalpahin and the Kingdoms of Chalco." In preparation: analysis, comparison, and translation of a recently discovered manuscript in a private collection which appears to be the earliest known copy in the Americas of a work attributed to Chimalpahin, "La conquista de México."
John Frederick Schwaller
Department of History
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Telephone: (305) 393-3845
SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 1987-"Nahuatl Manuscripts in the Latin American Library of Tulane University," Estudjos de Cultura Nahuatl, vol. 18, 344-360. 1987-"Nahuatl Manuscripts in The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley," Estudjos de Cultura Nahuatl, vol. 18,361-383. 1987- "Nahuatl Manuscripts in the Newberry Library," Estudjos de Cultura Nahuatl, vol. 18, 317-343.
The catalogue references found on pp. 336-343 of the "Nahuatl Manuscripts in the Newberry Library" are based on the original cataloging of the manuscripts by Joaquin Galarza, "Preliminary Checklist of the Mexican Manuscripts in the Newberry Library," typescript.
The inital selection of manuscripts comes from Ruth L. Butler, A Checklist of Manuscripts in the Edward E. Ayer Collection (Chicago, 1937), pp. 186-189.
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