May 1989, Number 7
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 seventh issue of the Nahua Newsletter. This issue was sent to seventy-five specialists in Nahua physical anthropology, prehistory, linguistics, ethnohistory, and contemporary culture, as well as to forty institutions. Subscriptions to the Newsletter are still free. Those who wish to start their subscription should fill out the form at the end of this issue. Those who wish to update their entry in the directory are also encouraged to do so. The next issue is scheduled to come out in October 1989. This issue contains news of recent publications, ongoing research, a call for papers, and requests for/offers of assistance. Many new and previous subscribers also took an opportunity to list or update their addresses, primary interests, and scholarly activities. The editor has not been notified of any upcoming conference or symposium organized by a subscriber.
However, Alan Sandstrom (Indiana-Purdue University) would like to report that, at the suggestion of James Taggart, he will contact the American Anthropological Association program chair to schedule a meeting of the Nahua Group at the next annual conference in Washington, D.C. Everyone with an interest in Nahua studies is urged to attend. Topics to be discussed include the future of the Nahua Group, suggestions concerning the Nahua Newsletter, possible joint symposia or publications, etc. The time and place will be announced in the next Nahua Newsletter and in the conference program. Please plan to attend and help decide where we might go from here. The directory in this issue is meant to update and supplement the more comprehensive directories of Issues 5 and 6. A limited number of Issues 1-6 are still available. Requests accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelopes are appreciated. They may be sent to the editor's new address (beginning July 1989): Dept. of Sociology/ Anthropology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424. The editor wishes to thank Alan Sandstrom, Indiana-Purdue University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland. They made the typing, copying, and mailing of this issue possible.
1. Elizabeth Boone (Dumbarton Oaks) indicates that Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) will be available in early 1989.
2. John Carlson (Center for Archaeoastronomy) writes "I am interested in [corresponding with people] working on the so-called Mixteca-Puebla style of the Post Classic in art and iconography. I am also looking for samples, of verified source and variety, of native bark paper." 3. Harold Haley writes that: "The Mapa Metlatoyuca, published by Adela Breton in 1927, is being re-examined. The lienzo has no glosses or Spanish symbols. It is not genealogical; has 79 people--most with personal names, some with calendar names. There is a complex date. Several distinct place signs have not been identified. My current research strongly suggests Northern Oaxaca as the site of origin. I am now searching for information on the following topics:
a. Early records of churches (Dominican) and other contact data for San Mateo Tlapiltepec, Tepelmeme de Morelos, and Ihuitlan Plumas.
b. Any data or information on interaction between Aztec and Mixtec/Chocho groups in the Coixtlahuaca Valley.
c. Any contact history or people familiar with Chocho (Cuchona) people and/or their language.
4. Jane M. Hill (University of Arizona) asks "Is anybody working on weeping? If so I'd be interested in what they are learning. I have in mind discussions of weeping in FC, and in Spanish chronicles about Aztec weeping, and weeping in modern contexts such as taking vows between ritual kin, etc. This seems to have been an important component of certain speech events and has been little attended to."
5. Terrence Kaufman (University of Pittsburgh) writes that he is interested in exchanging data on Nahua ethnobotany, ethnozoology, and ethnomedicine.
6. James Lockhart (UCLA) suggests that "Since `Charles Gibson and the Ethnohistory of Postconquest Central Mexico' (La Trobe University Latin American Studies Occasional Paper No. 9, 1988), by James Lockhart, is difficult to obtain, the author will send a xerox free to anyone who requests one."
7. Eileen Mulhare (Wayne State University) states that "graduate students interested in pursuing ethnographic research or archival research in a rapidly changing rural community (Totimehuacan, Puebla) may want to contact me. I can provide letters of introduction to key community members, orientation, and other non-financial assistance."
8. Michael E. Smith (Loyola University) would "like to hear from anyone with ethnographic information on the age or use-life of adobe houses in central Mexico. I am collecting comparative ethnographic data on adobe houses for application to archaeological examples of such structures in Aztec-period Morelos."
9. Brian Swann (The Cooper Union) expresses his interest in editing a Collection of Essays on the Translation of Native American Literatures. "After having edited two successful volumes of general essays on Native American literature (Smoothing the Ground, and Recovering the Word, the latter with Arnold Krupat, both from the University of California Press), I think the time is ripe for an interdisciplinary volume that concentrates on one topic, to my mind the most important: translation, throughout the Americas--North, Central, South. I would like scholars to send me for consideration an original essay, or essay and translation, on any aspect of the subject which interests them.
"The University of Nebraska Press (which published I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, co-edited with Arnold Krupat) has expressed strong interest in this collection, and wishes to read it first.
"While the book is not intended primarily for the general reader, I would prefer the essays not to be esoteric and overly `specialized.' I would be happy if, in addition to scholars in Native American Studies and related fields, college teachers, at an upper undergraduate and graduate level, were able to use the book.
"The deadline will be Christmas, 1989. Contributions should be of a reasonable length (preferably not over 30 pages), double-spaced, and conforming to the MLA style. After each essay include a Suggested Reading List, or a bibliographical note." Those interested may write to: Brian Swann, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, Cooper Square, New York, New York, 10003.
Jose Alcina Franch
Depto. de Antropologia Americana
Ciudad Universitaria
Madrid 3, Spain
Frances Berdan
Department of Anthropology
California State University--San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA 92407
AZTEC CULTURE, COLONIAL NAHUATL DOCUMENTATION, COSTUME AND WEAVING IN SIERRA NORTE DE PUEBLA. Preparation of 3-volume publication of Codex Mendoza (with Patricia Anawalt); ethnographic research among weavers in Sierra Norte de Puebla (with Patricia Anawalt); research on political and economic structure of the Aztec empire (with Richard Blanton, Michael Smith, Elizabeth Boone, Emily Umberger, and Mary Hodge).
Elizabeth Boone
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Telephone: (202) 342-3266
Sallie Brennan
570 Antlers Drive
Rochester, New York 14618
Telephone: (716) 473-8655
ETHNOHISTORY. "Cosmogonic use of time and space in historical narrative: The case of the Cronica Mexicayotl." Ph.D. dissertation, May, 1988, University of Rochester.
William Bright
1625 Mariposa Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
Telephone: (303) 938-9718
e-mail: bright @ clipt.colorado.edu
LANGUAGE. "Ethnopoetic" translation of classical texts.
Lyle Campbell
2060 Ferndale
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Telephone: (504) 388-6637
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, PIPIL, NAHUA DIALECTS, NAHUA ETHNOHISTORY, NAHUA PREHISTORY.
Una Canger
Ulriksdalvej 3
2500 Valby
Denmark
DIALECTS, LANGUAGE HISTORY.
John B. Carlson, Director
The Center for Archaeoastronomy
Post Office Box X
College Park, MD 20740
Telephone: (301) 864-6637
CENTRAL MEXICAN SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT AND RELIGION, ASTRONOMY, CALENDAR, COSMOLOGY.
G. Cavagna
12911 Buccaneer Rd.
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Telephone: (301) 384-9243
HISTORICAL, THE DOCUMENTS OF THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD. The study of Mesoamerica has been my hobby for many years. Professionally I am a research chemist in the research lab of Westvaco Corp., a major paper company. My professional publications and patents have been in the area of organic chemistry and paper chemistry. Presently I am combining professional and hobby interests with a study on native Mexican paper
Thoric Nils Cederström
Apartado Postal 215
Universidad de las Américas
Santa Catarina Mártir,
Puebla 72810 Mexico
Telephone: Home: (011+52+22) 40-80-54
Office: (011+52+22) 47-00-00
CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOHISTORY IN THE SIERRA NEVADA REGION OF PUEBLA, MEXICO, AND MORELOS. Ph.D. research on rural outmigration from the Mixteca Baja region and the impacts of migrant remittances on the local agricultural economy, 1987-88; "The Political Ecology of Outmigration from Four Mixtec Farming Communities in Southern Puebla and Northern Oaxaca, 1985-86; various projects in the Mixteca Baja region, 1982-84. Marie-Noëlle Chamoux
CNRS
27 rue Paul Bert
94204 Ivry France
Telephone: (1) 46 70 11 52 Ext. 4034
John K. Chance
Department of Anthropology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Telephone: (602) 965-6213
COLONIAL ETHNOHISTORY. Indian elites in late colonial Puebla.
Garry Chick
Children's Research Center
Univ. of Illinois
51 E. Gerty Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Telephone: (217) 244-5644
CARGO SYSTEM. "Acculturation and Community Recreation in Rural Tlaxcala." Leisure Today. (under review). "Algorithms for Cargo System Participation in Rural Tlaxcala, Mexico." Paper presented at 86th meeting of Am. Anth. Assn., November 87, Chicago. "Expressive and Instrumental Components of Participation in a Tlaxcalan Cargo System. In R. Bolton (ed.), The Content of Culture. HRAF Press (in press).
Bon Davis
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Daniele Dehouve
Laboratorie d'Ethnologie
Université Paris X
200 av. de la République
9200 Nanterre
Cedex France
R. David Drucker
15 Conant Street
Salem, MA 01970
Telephone: Home: (508) 745-7572
Work: (617) 876-3691
ETHNOHISTORY, LINGUISTICS, BELIEF SYSTEMS
Pursuing the hypothesis that Mesoamerican calendars were (are) systematically interrelated and not ad hoc local creations.
Darl J. Dumont
P. 0. Box 4806
Santa Barbara, CA 93140
Telephone: (805) 687-8666
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: ETHNOBOTANY
Ursula Dyckerhoff
Rautentrauch-Joest-Museum
Ubierring 45
D-5000 Köln I (FRG)
ETHNOHISTORICAL
Publications and Papers on pre-Spanish and colonial topics, with regard to Central Mexican Nahuas, mainly Valley of Puebla.
Marc Eisinger
49 rue Auguste Lancon
F-75013 Paris
Telephone: 33 (1) 45 88 72 20
e-mail: EISINGER at FRiBM11 ON EARN/BITNET
COMPUTER ASSISTED RESEARCH ON THE NAHUATL TEXT OF THE FLORENTINE CODEX.
James L. Fidelholtz
Apdo. Postal 1356
72000 Puebla
Puebla, Mexico
Thomas L. Grigsby
Dept. of Anthropology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Telephone: (503) 754-4515
ETHNOHISTORY, ETHNOGRAPHY OF MORELOS, COSMOLOGY
Harold B. Haley
7447 Cambridge, #119
Houston, TX 77054
Telephone: Home: (713) 795-4039 Work: (713) 795-7558
Intense study of Mapa Metlatoyuca; Interest in codices, mapas, and lienzos; doing cross-cultural study of death beliefs in pre-Columbian America.
William F. Hanks
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Jane H. Hill
Department of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Telephone: (602) 621-4735
MODERN TLAXCALA-PUEBLA, CLASSICAL NAHUATL. Publication in 1986 of Speaking Mexicano, with Kenneth C. Hill (U. of AZ Press); Currently working on (a) the representation of the self in discourse and (b) the place of affective manifestations, especially weeping, in discourse. Work in progress includes article "The terror of Montezuma" (with Robert MacLaury) on a shift in the concept of the self observable in FC XII, and "Weeping and coherence in narrative discourse," on the place of tears in a narrative by a Mexicano-speaking woman, contextualized in a discussion of a tradition of weeping as a manifestation of sincerity.
Mary G. Hodge
University of Houston Clear Lake, Box 159
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, TX 77058-1098
Telephone: (713) 488-9688
PRO-COLONIAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION VIEWED THROUGH DOCUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY. 1986-88: I have been conducting a reanalysis of Aztec period ceramic collections gathered by the Valley of Mexico surveys in the eastern and southern parts of the valley. This study aims to reconstruct Early and Late Aztec period exchange systems and identify regional production areas. My co-researcher is Leah D. Minc, of The Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Rebecca Horn
Department of History
211 Carlson Hall
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Telephone: (801) 581-5294
Frances Karttunen
Linguistics Research Center
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Telephone: (512) 471-5551 (through summer 1989)
e-mail: internet: LIAR457 @ iv1.cc.utexas.edu
bitnet: LIAR457 @ UTAIVC
Terrence Kaufman
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Telephone: Home: (412) 242-7366
Office: (412) 648-7500
HUASTECA NAHUA LANGUAGE AND ETHNOBOTANY, ZOOLOGY, AND MEDICINE. Nahua dictionary, texts, and ethnomedicine in Coxcatlán, SLP, 1987; Nahua dictionary, texts, ethnobotany, and ethnozoology in Coxcatlán, SLP, Los Ajos, Ver., Chontla, Ver., 1986; Nahua ethnobotany and ethnozoology in Tuzantla, SLP, Los Ajos, Ver., Chicontepec, Ver., 1984.
Wallace Kaufman
Rt. 5, Box 118
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Susan Kellogg
Dept. of Anthropology
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
Telephone: (713) 527-4847
COLONIAL NAHUATL. I work with Indian legal cases from 16th-17th century Mexico City.
Mary Ritchie Key
Program in Linguistics
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
LINGUISTICS. "Using the Present to Interpret the Past: A Nahuat example," in General and Amerindian Ethnolinguistics, eds. Mary Ritchie Key and Henry M. Hoenigswald, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Due: this Spring.
George Lang
Comp. Lit.
Univ. of Alberta
Edmonton T6G 2E6 Canada
Telephone: (403) 492-0125
THE AZTEC IMAGE IN WESTERN THOUGHT
Tonia Leon
10 Gail Court
Huntington, New York 11743
James Lockhart
Department of History
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90024
ALL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE--SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. I am writing a book on the general history of the Nahuas in postconquest centuries on the basis of Nahuatl documents. The present title is "The Nahuas After the Conquest." Drafts of all the substantive chapters exist. (Their titles are: Altepetl; Household; Social Differentiation; Land and Living; Religion--The Saints and their Servants; Language; Ways of Writing; Forms of Expression).
Carolyn Mackay
2524 Corte Del Marques
Walnut Creek, California 94592
Telephone: (415) 934-8797
LINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS. Descriptive and sociolinguistic work on Totonac.
Geoffrey G. McCafferty
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13901
ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY; MATERIAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY; MIXTECA- PUEBLA REGION. My dissertation topic involves household organization and identity strategies of Postclassic Cholula. Recent papers have included "Ethnic Identity in the Material Culture of Postclassic Cholula," presented at the 1989 Joint Archaeological Congress; "Material Culture of Early Postclassic Cholula and the 'Mixteca-Puebla' Problem" at the 1986 SAA meeting; and my MA thesis "Ethnic Boundaries and Ethnic Identity: Case Studies from Postclassic Mexico." I have also collaborated with my wife Sharisse on several projects involving female gender identity and ideology, and spinning and weaving.
Sharisse D. McCafferty
58 Cook Street
Johnson City, NY 13790
ETHNOHISTORY; WOMEN'S ROLES AND FEMALE PRODUCTION; RELIGION AND IDEOLOGY. Recent research on Mesoamerican spinning and weaving, and on female identity (in collaboration with my husband Geoff) has been presented in "Mexican Spinning and Weaving as Female Gender Identity" at the Costume as Communication symposium at the Haffenreffer Museum (now being published); and in "Powerful Women and the Myth of Male Dominance in Aztec Society" (Archaeological Review of Cambridge 7:1). Current research includes the stylistic and technological study of archaeological spindle whorls from Cholula, and analysis of costume styles from the Mixtec codices.
Norman A. McQuown
1126 East 50th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Telephone: (312) 702-7317
CLASSICAL NAHUATL XVITH, XVIITH, XVIIITH CENTURIES. 1982-1987 (relevant to Nahuatl) teaching only
1988--Bibliographical research in Hamburg, Madrid, Paris, Zurich, Berlin, and London 1989--lntroduction to Classical Nahuatl (Winter and Spring Quarters) (University of Chicago)
Eileen M. Mulhare
414 W. Harrison
Royal Oak, MI 48067
Telephone: Office at Wayne State University: (313) 577-4062
Home: (313) 545-8455
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL COMMUNITIES AND RURAL ECONOMIES IN GENERAL, PLUS RELIGION. Economic development in San Francisco Totimehuacan, Municipio de Puebla, state of Puebla, particularly the encroachment of suburban housing development on this community which sits only 8 km south of the city limits of the state capital.
Federico Nagel B.
Talara 66
Col. TepeyacInsurgentes
07020 Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Telephone: 5 577-4790
Xavier Noguez
Centro de Estudios Historicos
El Colegio de Mexico
Camino al Ajusco #20
Mexico 01000 D.F.
Mary Christopher Nunley
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
Telephone: (414) 229-5247, 229-4174
ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOLOGICAL ETHNICITY, MODERNIZATION, GENDER. Have conducted ethnographic and ethnohistorical research in Northern Mexico and Southwestern U.S.
Jerome A. Offner
16222 Capri Drive
Houston, TX 77040
Telephone: (713) 466-8862
AZTECS, TEXCOCO, LAW, PICTORIAL MSS.
Hanns J. Prem
Seminar Für Völkerkunde
University of Bonn
Römerstrasse 146
D5300 Bonn 1 West Germany
Telephone: +49 228-550-413
e-mail: PREM @ DBN NF5.BITNET
15TH AND 16TH CENTURY. Sources for Central Mexican ethnohistory, Nahuatl toponyms and ethnonyms. Aztec hieroglyphs and chronology.
Berthold Riese
Grunewald Str. 47
D-1000 Berlin 41
W. Germany
Brian Stross
Anthropology Department
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712
Telephone: (512) 471-4206
ETYMOLOGY AND BORROWINGS IN NAHUA
Marc Thouvenot
La Jasse Q'Eyrolles
Russan30190 St. ChaptesFrance
Telephone: 66-81-04-47
ECRITURE. CODEX XOLOTL.
Nancy Troike
5800 Lookout Mountain
Austin, TX 78731
Prof. Peter Tschohl
Solothurner Weg 20
5000 Köln 80
FRG
Telephone: 0049-221-642520
AZTEC EMPIRE: PURIFYING AND CLARIFYING SOURCES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT. Tlacaelel as stand-in with J. Rounds. On the wrong and right application of theories. (In: S. Künsting/A. Bruck/P. Tschohl (eds.): Mit Theorien arbeiten. 1987 Munster) The structure of statements and the probability of truth. How one can judge interpretations by formal means (Festschrift T. Barthel, in press)
Ethnohistorics. A general instruction for ethnohistoric research (U. Köhler (ed): Altamerikanistik. Eine Einführung. (in press).
Verbal sources on the Aztec Empire (same).
The lost end of the Leyenda de los Soles and the transmission problems of the Códice Chimalpopoca (Baessler-Archiv 39, in print).
Sahagún's Report on the Pochteca in Book 9 of the Historia General between ancient Aztec reality; informants from Tlatelolco, Sahaguntine redaction and ethnohistoric treatment (Indiana, vol. 12, in prep.)
Professor Dr. R.A.M. van Zantwijk
Roeëkamperweg 5
3886 PL GARDEREN
Telephone: 05776-1728
In print: Temahuiztiliztlâcuilolli ipampa tlacatzin tlamatini Tomahtzin Palteltzin ica ic mâcuilli ixiuhmolpiliz matlacomeixiuhtica.
In print: Vertaling van Immortelle XLIX van Piet Paaltjens (Coyoitenyo Xalcalpolê).
In print: Un ejemplo Local de la Reforma Agraria efectuada por los Aztecas después de la Conquista del Territorio Tecpaneca.
Joseph Whitecotton
455 W. Lindsey, Rm. 521
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
University of Copenhagen
Institute of History of Religion
Department of Sociology of Religion
Department of American Indian Languages and Cultures
St. Kannikestreede 11, 1, DK1189 Copenhagen K
The Robert Goldwater Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5 Ave. and 82 Street
New York, New York 10028
Linda Kjeldgaard
Encuentro
Latin American Institute, UNM
801 Yale NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Tulane University Library
Serials Department
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698
UCLA 1992
Quincentenary Programs
Elizabeth Gumerman, Project Coordinator
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 1548
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1698
John Weeks
Social Science Bibliographer
Wilson Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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