Bodies Politic Talk: A-Maizing Nahua Healers
Indigenous healers in early modern central Mexico
Historian Edward Anthony Polanco on how 16th-century Nahua healers used maize in medicine, and how colonial authorities viewed them.
Events / Nov 5
Events / Nov 5
Indigenous healers in early modern central Mexico
Historian Edward Anthony Polanco on how 16th-century Nahua healers used maize in medicine, and how colonial authorities viewed them.