part 2: the colonization of memory. ch 3: record keeping w/o letters / writing histories of people...
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PART 2:PART 2:
THE COLONIZATION OF THE COLONIZATION OF MEMORYMEMORY
Ch 3: Record Keeping w/o Letters / Writing Histories of People w/o History
• History, literature, colonization– Alphabetic literacy in common
• People w/o writing are w/o history
– Mexica writing was picto-ideographic• Debates over Mexica intelligence by colonizers
Ch 3, cont’d
• Also a genre issue– Western catgories were regional/territorial– Mexicas had own genres to preserve own
memories– Only certain genres signified by “history”
Ch 3, cont’d
• Writing of history/history of writing– Botturini’s/Varro’s/Vico’s universal ages
– Mexica ages
Ch 4: Genres as Social Practices
• Letter writing – Revolutionized communication across
space/time
• Historiography– Heavily dependent on
• Positionality of writer/locus of enunciation
• Restrictions of genre (which are regional/cultural)
Ch 4, cont’d
• Counter-example: Bernardino de Sahagún– Wrote from Mexico/had intensive contact w/ Mexicas
• Florentine Codex– Part history/part encyclopedia
» Books: 1-2 God and the angels, 3 The soul, 4-7 The body and its anatomy, diseases, etc., 8-9 Astrology, astronomy, time, 10-11 Matter, form, air, 12 Birds and insects, 13 Water and fishes, 14-15 Geography, 16 Geology, 17 Trees and Herbs, 18 Animals, 19 Colors, scents, flavors, liquors, 20 Weights and measures, numbers, sounds