preconquest

Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala. neyolmelahualiztli: Nahuas 'rite of confession, or "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium. ololiuhqui: various hallucinogenic plants, among them Rivea corymbosa. partera: midwife. pasmo: respiratory illness. peste: pestilence. pintura de castas: colonial-era paintings showing different racial mixes of people. plethora: in humoral medicine, the condition of too much blood, resulting in an imbalance of the humors.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In more isolated indigenous communities, the few extant sources to shed any light on colonial indigenous medicine suggest that preconquest beliefs and practices survived virtually intact well into the seventeenth century. 32 With time, as the Spanish Mexican world pushed ever farther into the countryside, such overtly preconquest practices must have either receded accordingly or become overlaid with European, and especially Christian, elements.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Yet his environment is revealed not as the natural paradise lesser writers edit, out of black yearning for a preconquest state of being or white yearning for a pre-industrial one, from the footage of reality.

The Child Is the Man Gordimer, Nadine 1982

The scene made more comprehensible the preconquest customs of the land, as the antithesis of the drunken and excited Indian to the almost effeminate fear of the same being sober makes more clear that inexplicable piece of romance, the Conquest of Mexico.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

TheEdwards model was augmented and revised by subsequent generations of historians, most notably by John Lloyd and William Stubbs in their work on preconquest Wales, which considered questions of race and political organization.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] EdwardCarter 2010

In New Spain, the two major works of this sort, Francisco Hernández's Historia Natural de la Nueva España and Martín de la Cruz's Badianus Codex, stand alongside Fray Bernardino de Sahagun's encyclopedic work on preconquest life as the major sources on Mesoamerican medicine. 4 The shortcomings of these texts as historical records — for example, the way the authors filtered native medicine through their own European medical concepts, or the way in which Sahagún cleansed much of his informants 'information of its supernatural content — have already been discussed extensively by the many scholars who have used them.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

13The horror of this first pestilence comes through in several Nahua chronicles, the best-known of these being the account recorded by Sahagún in the General History of the Things of New Spain, his great encyclopedic enterprise on preconquest Nahua life.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008