TY - JOUR
T1 - Tochan, “The House of All of Us”
T2 - Decolonizing Space through Nahua Oral Narratives
AU - Muñoz, Julieta Flores
AU - Flores, Patricia Murrieta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Nahua
KW - Oral narratives
KW - community-based research
KW - fluid history
KW - hearth
KW - memory
KW - rhythms of change
KW - spatial thinking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132383314&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180
DO - 10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85132383314
SN - 1944-2890
VL - 14
SP - 30
EP - 50
JO - Ethnoarchaeology
JF - Ethnoarchaeology
IS - 1
ER -