Healing Like Our Ancestors
The Nahua TiƧitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660
Offering a provocative new perspective, this book examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers or titiƧih in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records. This book emphasizes the importance of women as titiƧih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge.
Offering a provocative new perspective, Healing Like Our Ancestors examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records.
Early colonial Spanish settlers defined, assessed, and admonished Nahua titiĆih (healing specialists) and tiĆiyotl (healing knowledge) in the process of building a society in Mexico that mirrored Iberia. Nevertheless, Nahua survivance (intergenerational knowledge transfer) has allowed communities to heal like their ancestors through changes and adaptations. Edward Anthony Polanco draws from diverse colonial primary sources, largely in Spanish and Nahuatl (the Nahua ancestral language), to explore how Spanish settlers framed titiĆih, their knowledge, and their practices within a Western complex. Polanco argues for the usage of Indigenous terms when discussing Indigenous concepts and arms the reader with the Nahuatl words to discuss central Mexican Nahua healing. In particular, this book emphasizes the importance of women as titiĆih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge. These vital Nahua perspectives of healingāand how they differed from the settler narrativeāwill guide community members as well as scholars and students of the history of science, Latin America, and Indigenous studies.
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The Nahua TiƧitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660
Offering a provocative new perspective, this book examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers or titiƧih in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records. This book emphasizes the importance of women as titiƧih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge.
Offering a provocative new perspective, Healing Like Our Ancestors examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in central Mexico and how their practices have been misconstrued and misunderstood in colonial records.
Early colonial Spanish settlers defined, assessed, and admonished Nahua titiĆih (healing specialists) and tiĆiyotl (healing knowledge) in the process of building a society in Mexico that mirrored Iberia. Nevertheless, Nahua survivance (intergenerational knowledge transfer) has allowed communities to heal like their ancestors through changes and adaptations. Edward Anthony Polanco draws from diverse colonial primary sources, largely in Spanish and Nahuatl (the Nahua ancestral language), to explore how Spanish settlers framed titiĆih, their knowledge, and their practices within a Western complex. Polanco argues for the usage of Indigenous terms when discussing Indigenous concepts and arms the reader with the Nahuatl words to discuss central Mexican Nahua healing. In particular, this book emphasizes the importance of women as titiĆih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge. These vital Nahua perspectives of healingāand how they differed from the settler narrativeāwill guide community members as well as scholars and students of the history of science, Latin America, and Indigenous studies.
