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A selected maternal discourse survives in a collaborative colonial manuscript. Keep in view its different columns, its social demands and the contribution of its Nahua makers.
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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?