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X-WR-CALNAME:Kelly McDonough\, "Embodied\, Predictive\, and Didactic: Nahua
  Science in Book XI of the Florentine Codex" (HSTEM talks)
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DESCRIPTION:As the only Nahua natural history produced during the colonial 
 period\, Book XI of the Florentine Codex\, entitled “Earthly Things\,”
  is an unparalleled register of sixteenth-century Indigenous science\, or 
 “ways of knowing and explaining the world.”  The result of a decades-l
 ong collaboration between elite-class male Nahua scholars and elders\, and
  a Franciscan friar\, Book XI offers rare insight into Nahua engagement wi
 th\, and understandings of\, the environment they inhabited in the Central
  Valley of Mexico. In my presentation\, I analyze sixteenth-century Nahua 
 science through a focus on Nahua principles\, methods\, and rationales of 
 scientific investigation\, as well as modes of communication related to sc
 ientific knowledge production\, gathering\, and dissemination. From this a
 nalysis\, I argue that Nahua science in Book XI was 1) based on a blend of
  first-hand\, embodied experiences and ancient authority\; 2) concerned wi
 th predicting and influencing future outcomes\; and 3) used to model an et
 hical framework that would ensure survival in an interconnected world. \n\
 n \n\nKelly McDonough is Tomás Rivera Regents Professor in the in the Dep
 artment of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Native American and I
 ndigenous Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research on Na
 hua intellectual history centers primarily on the identification and analy
 sis of how Nahuas in Mexico produce\, record\, and disseminate knowledges.
  She is the author of The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconques
 t Mexico and  Indigenous Science and Technology: Nahuas and the World arou
 nd Them. \n\n \n\n \n\nThis talk is part of the History of Science\, Techn
 ology\, Environment\, and Medicine series (HSTEM talks).
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LOCATION:Garrison Hall (GAR)\, 4.100
SUMMARY:Kelly McDonough\, "Embodied\, Predictive\, and Didactic: Nahua Scie
 nce in Book XI of the Florentine Codex" (HSTEM talks)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/kelly-mcdonough-embodied-pr
 edictive-and-didactic-nahua-science-in-book-xi-of-the-florentine-codex-hst
 em-talks
CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities
CATEGORIES:Science & Technology
CATEGORIES:World & Culture
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