La transculturación de las representaciones iconográficas en los manuscritos mexicanos: La reproducción del guerrero vencido a través de varios documentos precolombinos y textos coloniales

Abstract

Pre-Hispanic codices hold an iconographic representation of a defeated warrior, which indicates events of a historical and religious nature and is reflected in steles with highly developed art. The tlacuilos' competent painting techniques showed that it was not easy for Spaniards and mestizo intellectuals to duplicate it and understand it. After Spanish intervention and with the help of the indigenous sages and the tlacuilos, the Spaniards and mestizos barely managed to create another series of analogous documents. Fernando Ortiz's concept of transculturation allows us to trace the transformations and reconfigurations that this image had through eight different manuscripts, not only throughout pre-Hispanic codices, but also among colonial documents. The selected images show the transit of cultures that existed in Mexico, firstly, between indigenous lordships, and later with the arrival of the Spaniards.