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Remote Stories, Local Meanings: Knowledge Transfer and Acculturation Strategies in Nahua Sociocultural History

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dc.abstract.enIn this paper I carry out a microphilological study of a section of the Codex Indianorum 7, a colonial devotional manuscript in Nahuatl preserved in the John Carter Brown Library. It contains wisdom teachings derived from the biblical Book of Tobit and directed to both parents and their children. I argue that this hitherto unstudied text reveals the Native author's liberty to creatively mold and adapt a culturally remote European prototype into the Native genre of oratorical art—the huehuehtlahtolli, or “words of the elders.” The author also skillfully embedded and contextualized the content of the biblical instruction in local cultural meanings understandable and valid to an Indigenous audience. As an example of cross-cultural translation and colonial textual production, this source provides new insights into Native forms of agency, intellectual autonomy, and acculturation strategies reflected in creative dialogues with European traditions, developed and maintained despite the seemingly substitutive Christianization policies imposed on Indigenous people in the sixteenth century.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorOlko, Justyna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T19:11:27Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T19:11:27Z
dc.date.copyright2022-01-25
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number1
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume79
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/TAM.2021.106
dc.identifier.issn0003-1615
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/118380
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/remote-stories-local-meanings-knowledge-transfer-and-acculturation-strategies-in-nahua-sociocultural-history/A2F31149797099FEC15EB941711776D8
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationhistory
dc.relation.ispartofAmericas
dc.relation.pages3-35
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enNahuatl
dc.subject.enNahuas
dc.subject.enIndigenous agency
dc.subject.enacculturation
dc.subject.encross-cultural translation
dc.subject.enculture contact
dc.subject.enwisdom teaching
dc.subject.enOld Testament
dc.titleRemote Stories, Local Meanings: Knowledge Transfer and Acculturation Strategies in Nahua Sociocultural History
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication