October 1989, Number 8
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 eighth issue of the Nahua Newsletter. This issue was sent to 140 subscribers including, approximately 100 specialists in Nahua physical anthropology, prehistory, linguistics, ethnohistory, and contemporary culture. It contains news of recent publications, ongoing research, upcoming conferences, and calls for assistance. The editor expresses his appreciation to Alan Sandstrom, Indiana-Purdue University, and the College of Charleston for their assistance in reproducing and mailing this issue.
Of special interest to readers is the upcoming Organizing Meeting of Nahua Specialists at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. The Organizing Meeting will be held on Saturday, November 18 from 12:00-1:15 PM in the Thoroughbred Room of the Washington Hilton Hotel. Topics to be discussed include the organization of symposia, the possibility of becoming a unit within the AAA, etc. All specialists are welcome to attend and contribute ideas.
The next issue of the Nahua Newsletter will include a comprehensive and up-to- date directory of Nahua scholars. Recipients of the current issue are asked to review their last directory listing (see issues 5, 6, or 7). If modifications are desired, the subscription form at the end of this issue can be used to make necessary changes, add information, draw attention to errors, etc. A letter with the same instructions will be sent to all previous subscribers. Unless the editor hears from you, your last directory entry will be printed without change in the upcoming special issue. The next issue will contain a directory of over 250 specialists. Issue 9 will be free to all subscribers. However, since it will be 50-60 pages in length, all specialists residing in the U.S. are asked to send the editor a stamped self-addressed 9 " by 12 " envelope. Please include $1.65 for first class postage. (Institutional subscribers and scholars living outside of the U.S. need not send the editor an envelope or postage.) Please, no checks, money orders, etc . The next issue will "go to the printers" at the end of February. Please send forms, envelopes, directory updates, and announcements as soon as possible, but no later than February 5, 1990. The editor's current address is: The Nahua Newsletter, c/o Brad R. Huber, Editor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 24924.
1. Louise Burkhart (Indiana-Purdue University) would "like to hear from anyone who might be able to identify by handwriting a Franciscan friar and nahuatlato active in Tlatelolco (and Huejotzingo?) in 1588-1590. For example, Gerónimo de Mendieta, Pedro de Oroz. It should be possible to figure out whose handwriting this is, but I don't have facsimiles of anything useful." 2. Vernon Kjonegaard (University of California-Santa Barbara) notes that Volume 10 of the journal New Scholar is now available, to Nahua Newsletter readers only, for $10 postpaid--a saving of $6. This issue should be of special interest to newsletter subscribers because it contains a number of articles on Nahua speakers as well as book reviews and an Index to Volumes 6-10. The New Scholar is also looking for reviewers. A c. v. or statement of interest/expertise will set in motion the "critical process." Interested parties can write to Vernon Kjonegaard, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. 3. Elena Limón R. (Universidad de las Américas) notes the recent publication of Tlatelolco: Fuentes e Historia. Obras de Robert H. Barlow (Vol II), (INAH-UDLA, 1989) which is edited by Jesus Monjarás-Ruiz, Elena Limón and M. Cruz Paillés. It complements Barlow's first volume: Tlatelolco: Rival de Tenochtitlan, a recompilation of 36 of Barlow's articles related to prehispanic and early colonial Tlatelolco. Copies are available at $20 U.S. from: Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Santa Catarina Mártir 72820, A.P. 100 Cholula, Pue, Mexico. (Please send Postal or International Money Orders only. Postage and Handling are included.) 4. Scott O'Mack is currently preparing "an English translation of Cristóbal del Castillo's Historia de los Mexicanos, following the Nahuatl text published by Paso y Troncoso in 1908. I would much appreciate any information regarding other translations of these fragments, published or unpublished, as I hope to eventually publish a 'definitive' edition." His address is 1306 E. 50th Street, Chicago, IL 60615. 5. Robert Shadow (Universidad de las Américas) writes that "In the summer of 1990 the Department of Anthropology will be organizing, for the second time, a three-day to week-long series of conferences entitled 'Simposio Sobre Cholula'. The focus is on the archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, and linguistics of Cholula and surrounding regions, including Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, the Sierra Norte, Veracruz, and Morelos." The symposium will be organized by theme in which Nahua scholars from the US, Mexico, and elsewhere can get together both formally and informally. "In general, the University is quite supportive of conferences. . .; it has ample cafeteria facilities and possibly some dormitory accommodations on campus could be arranged. Trips to Cacaxtla, Cholula, and Tlaxcala could also be arranged." Those interested should write or call Robert D. Shadow: Dept. de Antropología, Universidad de las Américas, A.P. 100 Sta. Catarina Mártir 72820, Cholula, Puebla, MEXICO. Telephone: 47-00-00 Ext. 1194. 6. Members of the Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico wish to inform subscribers of their activities. Seminar members have been working together since 1984 and have devoted themselves to the translation of colonial Nahuatl texts into Spanish, especially the works of Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin. They intend to publish Chimalpahin's complete works in a bilingual edition. In addition, they train translators who already have some knowledge of Colonial Nahuatl and seek to improve their own translating skills by working closely with fellow scholars. The current members of the seminar are: Victor Manuel Castillo Farreras, Josefina García Quintana, Dolores Latapi, Xochitl Medina, Federico Navarrete, José Rubén Romero Galván, and Durdica Segota. Their mailing addresses and research interests can be found in the directory. Their telephone number is: 5-48-08-39. 7. Anyone interested in joining a panel on Techialoyan Codices for the VIII Reunion de Historiadores Mexicanos y Norteamericanos should send an abstract to: Stephanie Wood, 3322 Videra Drive, Eugene, OR 97405-1237 as soon as possible. The meeting will be held in San Diego, California in October, 1990.
Helene Anderson
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
New York University
19 University Place
New York, NY
Philip Arnold
5110 S. Kenwood Ave.
#1009
Chicago, Illinois 60615
AZTEC RELIGION. Currently a student in History of Religions, Divinity School, University of Chicago with emphasis on Aztec religion; 1985- Delivered paper at American Academy of Religion, "Eating Landscape: Human Sacrifice and Sustenance in Aztec Mexico"; Yearly participant at Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project meetings in Boulder, Colorado; 1989-Classes with Norman McQuown in Classical Nahuatl, University of Chicago.
Monica Barnes
Department of Anthropology
McGraw Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
L.T. Briggs
3 Pleasant Street
Hanover, NH 03755 Louise Burkhart
Dept. of English and Linguistics
Indiana-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
Telephone: (219) 481-6995 (Office)
(219) 424-1695 (Home)
EARLY COLONIAL RELIGION. Published The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico with the University of Arizona Press in June, 1989. Currently working on translation and analysis of Nahuatl religious play (c.1590).
Victor Manuel Castillo Farreras
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
NAHUATL LANGUAGE AND ECONOMICS
N. Ross Crumrine
1670 Earlston Ave.
Victoria, British Columbia
CANADA V8P 2Z7
NORTHWEST MEXICO, CAHITA
Anne Delfeld
Rt. 1, Box 452
Brownsville, WI 53006
Telephone: (414) 269-4270
PLANTS USED BY THE AZTECS. Gathering material for a database of Mexican plants, including descriptions, uses, names in all available languages; currently I have 80,000 file cards; Translating Francisco Hernandez, Historia General del Nuevo Mundo and various modern Spanish works including Martinez, Santamaria, etc; I am a member of the Society for Economic Botany.
James L. Fidelholtz
213 Page Road
Nashville, TN 37205
Josefina García Quintana
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
NAHUATL LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY
Robert Haskett
Department of History, 175 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1288
Telephone: (503) 686-4836 or 4802
ETHNOHISTORY OF COLONIAL NEW SPAIN. After completing a manuscript and several related studies concerning the ethnohistory of Cuernavaca's colonial indigenous ruling elite, I have begun an investigation of the Taxco mining complex concentrating especially on involuntary Indian mine labor. I have also been studying priest-Indian parishioner relations in the Cuernavaca and Taxco regions. Both of these newer studies rely on a variety of Nahuatl records as core sources of information. Both attempt to explore the issues from an Indian perspective and over the entire colonial period.
Barbara Hergianto
South Florida Community College
600 W. College Drive
Avon Park, Florida 33825
Telephone: (813) 382-6900 Ext. 312
CULTURE HISTORY, FOLKLORE. I am currently working with Nahua speakers in a Mexican population in Central Florida.
Susan Kellogg
Bunting Institute
Radcliffe Research and Study Center
Radcliffe College
34 Concord Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
MEXICA/AZTEC ETHNOHISTORY. Late prehispanic/early colonial Central Mexican native peoples and the transformation of their cultures; Indians in Spanish courts; Gender
Frieda C. Koeninger
2011 Alameda Drive
Austin, TX 78704
Telephone: 441-4681
THE INFLUENCE OF NAHUATL ON CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN SPANISH. A composition textbook for Spanish speakers, recently published in Mexico.
Dolores Latapi
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
PREHISPANIC ART.
Tonia Leon
10 Gail Court
Huntington, NY 11743
Telephone: (516) 427-9790
NAHUA IDEOLOGY. Persistence and influence of Nahuatl thought and knowledge throughout the centuries, especially in science, medicine, philosophy, ethical, and educational values; Also I have done work on the Primero Sueno.
Elena Limón R.
Instituto de Estudios Avanzados
Universidad de las Américas
Sta. Catarina Mártir 72820
A.P. 100, Cholula, Puebla MEXICO
Telephone: 47-08-07
ETHNOHISTORY. Editing the published works of Robert H. Barlow, in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. The second volume has just come out, and we are now working on the third volume.
Xochitl Medina
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
ETHNOHISTORY
Barbara Mundy
Dept. of the History of Art
P.O. Box 2009 Yale Station
New Haven, CT 06520
Telephone: (212) 362-6887 (Home)
MAPS AND OTHER PICTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 16TH CENTURY NAHUATL SPEAKERS. Currently working on a dissertation centering on the pinturas of the Relaciones Geograficas of New Spain from the 16th century.
Federico Navarrete
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
IDEAS OF POLITICAL LEGITIMACY, PARTICULARLY
THE CONCEPT OF CONQUEST.
Scott O'Mack
1306 E. 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
Telephone: (312) 285-7205
AZTEC ETHNOHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. MA Thesis on prehispanic history of Yacapitztlan, Morelos (1985); Participation in Late Postclassic archaeological projects in Morelos and Oaxaca (1986, 1987, 1988); Ongoing translation of 16th century Nahuatl texts.
Luis Reyes Garcia
Apdo Postal 53
Sta. Ana Chiautempan,
Tlaxcala, MEXICO
ETHNOHISTORY. Currently working on a translation of the Historia cronologica de Tlaxcala, by Buenaventura Zapata (MS in the Biblioteque National de Paris); Research for the Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Superiores en la Antropologia Social; 1979-1982 and 1985-1988, Director of the Programa de Etnolinguistica, co-sponsored by the SEP, INI, and CIESAS.
Jose Ruben Romero Galvan
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
THE IDEOLOGY OF THE INDIAN NOBILITY AFTER THE SPANISH CONQUEST.
Carlos Serrano Sanchez
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas
Circuito Exterior de la Ciudad Universitaria
Delegacion Coyoacan
C.P. 04510, MEXICO, D.F.
Telephone: 548-36-67
Durdica Segota
Taller de Traducción de Textos Nahuas
Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas
Ciudad de las Humanidades
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
Mexico, D.F. MEXICO
PREHISPANIC ART, PARTICULARLY IMAGES OF TLALOC AND HUITZILOPOCHTLI.
John Shea
Apartado Postal 470
53102 Ciudad Satelite
Estado de Mexico, MEXICO
Telephone: 3-93-33-09
CLASSICAL NAHUATL. Development of undergraduate reading comprehension course in classical Nahuatl (3 Semester course).
Gordon Whittaker
Seminar Fur Volkerkunde
Studt Str. 32
4400 Munster, WEST GERMANY
Telephone: 0251- 217682
ETHNOHISTORY, LINGUISTICS.
Stephanie Wood
3322 Videra Drive
Eugene, OR 97405-1237
Telephone: (503) 344-1839
ETHNOHISTORY, CENTRAL MEXICO, COLONIAL PERIOD. I continue to study the Nahuatl texts of titulos primordiales and Techialoyan manuscripts for what they convey of change at the community level and of strategies used by certain families seeking to bolster their position in society. I also continue to work with 170 Nahuatl testaments from the second half of the colonial period for glimpses into the more private and individual side of life.
Linda Griggs, Library Assistant
The Robert Goldwater Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028
Terry McCoy, Dir.
Center for Latin American Studies
319 Grinter Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Laura Gutierrez-Witt, Head Librarian
The General Libraries
Benson Latin American Collection
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-7330
Nahuatl Program
c/o Department of German
Escuela de Estudios Profesionales
Acatlan
San Juan Totoltepec S/N
Naucalpan, Edo de Mexico
Vernon Kjonegaard
Resident Fellow in Latin American Studies
Department of Religious Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Last updated: 11/29/07