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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January 27, 2010
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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known as the Tira de Tepechpan is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarly literature examining colonial historical documents, both pictorial and textual.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...