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January 27, 2010
Lori Boornazian Diel The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 208 pp.; 20 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780292718319)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.9

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Lori Boornazian Diel’s study of the colonial Mexican manuscript known as the Tira de Tepechpan is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarly literature examining colonial historical documents, both pictorial and textual. The Tira de Tepechpan is an annals-style manuscript documenting the history and ruling lineage of the central Mexican town of Tepechpan. It was probably begun around 1553 and its imagery completed ca. 1590/96, with written annotations in Nahuatl added at an...