Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660 by Polanco, Edward Anthony
Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660 by Polanco, Edward Anthony

Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660

Offering a provocative new perspective, Healing Like Our Ancestors examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua healers in central...
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Author: Edward Anthony Polanco
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Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660 by Polanco, Edward Anthony

Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660

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Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660 by Polanco, Edward Anthony

Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Ti?itl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660

BD$35.17
Author: Edward Anthony Polanco
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 titiçih (healing specialists) and tiçiyotl (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 titiçih, 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 titiçih and highlights their work as creators and keepers of knowledge. These vital Nahua perspectives of healing--and how they differed from the settler narrative--will guide community members as well as scholars and students of the history of science, Latin America, and Indigenous studies.

Author: Edward Anthony Polanco
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780816550227

About the Author
Edward Anthony Polanco is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech. Born in Los Angeles, California, he has ancestral roots in Kuskatan (western and central El Salvador). His research interests include Mesoamerica, Mexico, El Salvador, Indigenous sovereignty, Nahua peoples, and decolonization.
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