Autore
Pardo-Tomás, José

Titolo
Conversion medicine. Communication and circulation of knowledge in the Franciscan convent and college of Tlatelolco, 1527-1577
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 142 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 21 - Pagina finale: 42

Tlatelolco was perhaps one of the most emblematic spaces of the circulation ofknowledge among people living in Sixteenth-Century New Spain. The article setsout to analyse the role played by Tlatelolco in the formation and circulation ofmedical knowledge and of certain healing practices intended to alleviate the enormousproblems facing the health of the population caused by the so-called 'encounter'between the European and the Mesoamerican worlds. Reconstructing the formationof knowledge in situ enable us to offer a dynamic vision of determinate processesof communication, paying attention to specific contexts, specific actors and formsof the production of knowledge, analysed in their singularity and not just as a resultof some 'encounter' between cultures. The aim is to bring out the various types ofcommunication dynamics that create the physical space of Tlatelolco, conceived as thearticulation of a plurality of social spaces in mutual tension, in order to try to renewa historical interpretation of cultural exchange in a space strongly conditioned by theprogramme of conversion to Christianity imposed on the Mesoamerican populationby the Franciscans.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)142:1<21:CMCACO>2.0.ZU;2-4
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