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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A-Maizing Nahua Healers: Colonial Attacks on 
 Indigenous Healers in Early Modern Central Mexico
LOCATION:Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) 6020\, 34.413605\,
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco will discuss how Nahua healers used
  maize to heal the human body in central Mexican communities in the 16th 
 century. Titiçih (Nahua healing specialists) provided maize to patients t
 opically and orally and relied on it for answers about illnesses. Dr. Pol
 anco will also explore how Spanish Catholic authorities viewed these heal
 ers and their practices as a threat to settler colonial society and attem
 pted to extirpate them. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow.\n\nDr. 
 Edward Anthony Polanco is a Kuskatanchanej scholar of Mesoamerica. His pa
 rents fled their homeland due to political violence and instability. Alth
 ough he was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, his ancestors are from Kuskatan of
  the Nahua territories\, in what is now western and central El Salvador. 
 He is an associate professor\, associate chair\, and the director of unde
 rgraduate studies in the Department of History\, and the director of Indi
 genous Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, VA. Dr. Polanco’s researc
 h presents Native ideas with Indigenous concepts and focuses on 15th-\, 1
 6th-\, and 17th-century Nahua communities in Mexico and El Salvador.\n\nC
 osponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Sara Miller McCune and 
 George D. McCune Endowment\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/a0ab13db-fb99-4
 df6-bdac-5f67cd873086
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/a0ab13db-fb99-4df6-bdac-5f67cd873086
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