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Colonial Nahua manuscript production
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Nahua collaboration, the aims of Christian conversion and a Spanish column that often departs from the Nahuatl beside it all shape the surviving discourse. The work of interpretation and teaching also continues in living communities.
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 43
Living well on an unstable earth
A Nahua mother’s advice, preserved in the Florentine Codex, teaches balance on an unstable earth. How do colonial mediation, social hierarchy and living interpreters qualify what her discourse can establish?