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Life-giver: the Pre-Hispanic Nahua Concept of “Father” through Colonial Written Sources

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dc.abstract.enThis paper explores the ancient Nahua concept of “father,” employing early Colonial sources written in both Nahuatl and Spanish. A careful contextual analysis of the occurrences of various Nahuatl terms for “father” or “parent” leads to the conclusion that the principal criterion for creating their metaphorical extensions differed considerably from parallel Spanish criterion. While the latter referred to the power relationship (“father” is the one who governs), the former was based on the concept of exchange (“father” is the one who gives). This principle has implications for studying many aspects of Nahua culture in which the terms for “father” appear: gender and social roles, political hierarchy, pre-Hispanic religion, or evangelization. The difference in the construction of such basic concepts in Nahuatl and Spanish leads to methodological considerations about studying sources that have arisen from the context of cultural contact.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorMadajczak, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T05:09:47Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T05:09:47Z
dc.date.copyright2017-07-12
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.accesstimeBEFORE_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number2
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume28
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0956536117000086
dc.identifier.issn0956-5361
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/111205
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2A18FE2515AE8710D948ADCBDD92DA49/S0956536117000086a.pdf/lifegiver_the_prehispanic_nahua_concept_of_father_through_colonial_written_sources.pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationhistory
dc.relation.ispartofAncient Mesoamerica
dc.relation.pages371-381
dc.rightsOther
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleLife-giver: the Pre-Hispanic Nahua Concept of “Father” through Colonial Written Sources
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication