El estudio del sistema de registro empleado por los nahuas: panorama historiográfico
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2022
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ruz Barrio, Miguel Ángel. 2022. “El estudio del sistema de registro empleado por los nahuas: panorama historiográfico”. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 52 (2): 183-200.
Abstract
Para poder introducirnos en el estado actual sobre la interpretación de los sistemas de registro mesoamericanos, y en concreto del nahua, es necesario contemplar desde una perspectiva historiográfica cómo hemos llegado hasta la situación actual. Para ello, en el presente trabajo realizamos un breve recorrido por las propuestas que se han planteado, cuáles han tenido cierta continuidad y cuáles se han desechado. De este modo, podremos ver que actualmente muchos investigadores continúan discutiendo sobre aspectos que ya estaban presentes hace más de un siglo, empleando en muchas ocasiones argumentos muy similares. Asimismo, mostraremos que la mayor parte de los estudios se han centrado fundamentalmente en la parte glotográfica del sistema. Mientras, el contenido semasiográfico había quedado relegado hasta las últimas décadas, cuando diversos trabajos han comenzado a mostrar la importancia de la interrelación entre ambas partes del registro. Por todo ello, es posible que nos encontremos en un punto de inflexión en las investigaciones y es necesaria la reflexión historiográfica.
In this article, we reflect about the current state of the studies of Mesoamerican’s graphic communication systems, and specifically the Nahua system. From a summary of the most important proposals along the last two centuries, we reflect about which have had some continuity and which have been discarded. Based on it, we can see that many researchers continue discussing about aspects that were already presented more than a century ago and they still using very similar arguments. In addition, we will show that most of the studies have been focused primarily on the glottographic part of the system. Meanwhile, the semasiographic content had been relegated, although various works begin to show in the last decades the importance of the interrelation between both parts of the register. In brief, it is possible that we are at a turning point in research and, by this reason it is necessary a historiographic reflection.
In this article, we reflect about the current state of the studies of Mesoamerican’s graphic communication systems, and specifically the Nahua system. From a summary of the most important proposals along the last two centuries, we reflect about which have had some continuity and which have been discarded. Based on it, we can see that many researchers continue discussing about aspects that were already presented more than a century ago and they still using very similar arguments. In addition, we will show that most of the studies have been focused primarily on the glottographic part of the system. Meanwhile, the semasiographic content had been relegated, although various works begin to show in the last decades the importance of the interrelation between both parts of the register. In brief, it is possible that we are at a turning point in research and, by this reason it is necessary a historiographic reflection.
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Este artículo contiene algunos resultados del proyecto No. 2018/31/G/HS3/02128 “More than writing: coding & decoding (in) Amerindian graphisms”, financiado por Centro Nacional de Ciencias de Polonia (Narodowe Centrum Nauki).










