Wild or Merciful: Translating Early Modern Mexico

In this talk, the speakers will discuss the contributions of Translating Mesoamerica, a digital humanities project that for the first time features the transcription and translation of Mesoamerican manuscripts in Nahuatl housed in Special Collections at Princeton University Library, spanning from the 16th-19th centuries. The work offers insights into colonialism, documenting how Indigenous peoples adopted and adapted Christianity, European laws, and Western knowledge. Contributing to Princeton's renewed focus on Native North American and Indigenous Studies, the project emphasizes a collaborative approach that engages ethically with Indigenous peoples, communities and nations. The speakers will discuss challenges specific to Nahuatl-language documents in both alphabetic and pictographic writing where translation choices obscure or reveal Indigenous epistemologies. --- Event Details: https://my.princeton.edu/rsvp?id=1953430