Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

1/1/2005 - 12/31/2005

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)


Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza: An Intimate Portrait of an Indian Nobleman

FAIN: FB-50182-04

Camilla Townsend
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY 13346-1338)

I propose to study the mental world of the Nahuatal-speaking indigenous nobleman who lived in Tlaxcala, Mexico, in the seventeenth century. Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza wrote a remarkable set of annals over the course of his lifetime, which have only recently been translated into Spanish and have never appeared in English. He wrote for other Indians, not for Spaniards. A careful review of his wok, in the context of other Tlaxcalan documents, offers a rare window in to the Indian world, allowing us to hear the thoughts and perspectives of an individual Native American person, moving us beyond the more sociological and structural studies of the indigenous that our colonial sources have generally allowed us to make up to this point.





Associated Products

Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. (Book)
Title: Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico.
Author: Townsend, Camilla
Year: 2006
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780826334053
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780826334053