Tochan, “The House of All of Us”: Decolonizing Space through Nahua Oral Narratives

IF 1.8 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Ethnoarchaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180

Julieta Flores Muñoz, P. M. Flores

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Mapping is an established practice by which people represent, explore, and share their understandings of geography. While cartographic products have become the dominant medium for this, there are many ways of expressing spatial knowledge, providing a rich opportunity to understand different forms in which people recreate, navigate, and understand their landscape. This research explores how Nahuas in Mixtla de Altamirano, Veracruz, Mexico, build tochan, their space called “house,” and how this knowledge is transmitted orally over time. This shows the potential that oral narratives have to inform and decolonize historical and archaeological knowledge and to lead us to revaluate our own spatial thinking.

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Tochan，“我们所有人的房子”:通过纳华口述去殖民化空间

绘制地图是人们表达、探索和分享他们对地理的理解的一种既定做法。虽然地图产品已成为这方面的主要媒介，但有许多表达空间知识的方法，为理解人们重新创造、导航和理解其景观的不同形式提供了丰富的机会。本研究探讨了墨西哥韦拉克鲁斯州米斯特拉·德·阿尔塔米拉诺的纳瓦人是如何建造他们称为“房子”的空间的，以及这种知识是如何随着时间的推移口头传播的。这显示了口头叙述在告知历史和考古知识并使其非殖民化以及引导我们重新评估我们自己的空间思维方面的潜力。

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Ethnoarchaeology ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Ethnoarchaeology, a cross-cultural peer-reviewed journal, focuses on the present position, impact of, and future prospects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies approaches to anthropological research. The primary goal of this journal is to provide practitioners with an intellectual platform to showcase and appraise current research and theoretical and methodological directions for the 21st century. Although there has been an exponential increase in ethnoarchaeological and experimental research in the past thirty years, there is little that unifies or defines our subdiscipline. Ethnoarchaeology addresses this need, exploring what distinguishes ethnoarchaeological and experimental approaches, what methods connect practitioners, and what unique suite of research attributes we contribute to the better understanding of the human condition. In addition to research articles, the journal publishes book and other media reviews, periodic theme issues, and position statements by noted scholars.