Over the course of the last two decades Central Mexican Nahuatl studies have flourished, a fact amply attested by the appearance of a number of monographs exploring the indigenous worlds of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Nahuatl-language documents that undergird those explorations have been mainly formal texts, such as those produced under the direction of friars, and more mundane notarial documents, most notably testaments. More recently annals have captured the attention of scholars, in particular the writings of the early seventeenth-century annalist Chimalpahin. In Here in This Year, Camilla Townsend shifts the geographic focus eastward, with a richly detailed examination of two late seventeenth-century sets of annals from Tlaxcala and Puebla. This work contributes to a more complex picture of the seventeenth-century world of Nahuatl speakers beyond the areas of most intense contact.

Townsend begins her study with a lengthy introduction to the transcriptions and translations of these...

You do not currently have access to this content.