Nahuatl scholarship

[John F. Schwaller]

At 09:34 AM 7/10/2006, you wrote:
>Who has carried on the work so ably conducted by Lockhart
>in the 90s?  As a soon-to-be doctoral student who is hoping to focus 
>his research on
>Nahuatl documents such as these, I am interested in determining what are the
>persistent problems, questions and unexplored avenues that 
>remain.  Or, put another
>way, where would you advise a would-be scholar who wants to work 
>with Nahuatl source
>material turn his attention?


Great questions.  There are many of us who work with the documents 
and with some of the more traditional works as well.  Louise Burkhart 
and Barry Sell are working extensively with theatrical works written 
in Nahuatl.  Both Bob Haskett and Stephanie Wood are active  in the 
area also.  Haskett has dealt with a wide range of materials for the 
Cuernavaca region and is looking at the legends of the child-martyrs 
of Tlaxcala.  Wood has recently focused on titulos primordiales.  You 
might want to contact the Academy of American Franciscan History 
(www.aafh.org) for a copy of my book on Nahuatl manuscripts held in 
US repositories to get a feel for what types of materials are 
available here in the US, since they tend to reflect what you will 
find in Mexico as well.  You might also look at the collection of 
essays on Sahagun also published by the Academy, which although they 
deal with more famous Nahuatl documentation, break new ground in how 
those materials are used.  A recent issue of The Americas dealt with 
works in translation and the pit falls encountered in their 
interpretation.  I have organized a panel for the International 
Congress of Americanists on issues of transculturation and 
translation many of which will also draw upon Nahuatl documentation.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of folks working on less 
commonly referenced works, but at least gives a feeling for the ones 
that come off the top of my head.


John F. Schwaller
President
SUNY Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam, NY  13676

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