Malintzin’s Origins: Slave? Or Cultural Confusion?

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY Ethnohistory Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1215/00141801-10443447
Rosamund E. Fitzmaurice
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One of the most famous figures in the conquest of Mexico, Malintzin, also known as La Malinche and Doña Marina, has been described in ethnohistorical accounts as an interpreter who came from slavery. But what if this assertion of Malintzin’s origins was a result of cultural confusion, or simply untrue? This article closely examines ethnohistorical sources and their description of Malintzin’s origins. Could cultural bias or cultural misunderstanding be present within them? How might these biases affect our reading of Malintzin’s supposed slave status? The article explores the role of exchange, political marriage, gift giving, and polygyny in Maya and Aztec culture to add further context to Malintzin’s transfer from Indigenous to Conquistador society. It theorizes that Malintzin was never intended to be given to the Spanish invaders as a slave but rather as a bride.
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马林津的起源:奴隶?还是文化困惑?
马林津是征服墨西哥过程中最著名的人物之一,也被称为La Malinche和Doña Marina,在民族历史记载中被描述为来自奴隶制的口译员。但是,如果这种关于马林津起源的断言是文化混乱的结果,或者根本不真实呢?这篇文章仔细研究了民族历史的来源及其对马林津起源的描述。他们内部是否存在文化偏见或文化误解?这些偏见会如何影响我们对马林津所谓奴隶身份的解读?文章探讨了交换、政治婚姻、送礼和一夫多妻制在玛雅和阿兹特克文化中的作用,为马林津从土著社会向征服者社会的转变增添了更多的背景。它的理论是,马林津从来没有打算作为奴隶送给西班牙侵略者,而是作为新娘。
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Ethnohistory
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期刊介绍: Ethnohistory reflects the wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition. Of particular interest are those analyses and interpretations that seek to make evident the experience, organization, and identities of indigenous, diasporic, and minority peoples that otherwise elude the histories and anthropologies of nations, states, and colonial empires. The journal publishes work from the disciplines of geography, literature, sociology, and archaeology, as well as anthropology and history. It welcomes theoretical and cross-cultural discussion of ethnohistorical materials and recognizes the wide range of academic disciplines.
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