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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
This is a very broad topic and its treatment is quite complex. The time necessary to complete a systematic search of the pertinent literature, which is very rich and very dispersed, was lacking to us. For these reasons, we do not hope to offer here more than some considerations based on certain cases which can be considered as symptomatic.
The area which we shall study extends in area from New Mexico to Chiapas and in time from the conquest of Tenochtitlan completed in 1521 to that of Tamaulipas, completed in 1755. Moreover, we shall make some reference in passing to the actual state of Christianity among certain groups of indigenes.
Translated by Fr. Antonine Tibesar, O. F. M.
Wigberto Jiménez Moreno is Professor of pre-Hispanic culture at the Universidad Nacional of Mexico City. He has been Director of the National Museum of History of Mexico City. He is an académico of the Academia de Historia de México, correspondiente of the Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid, and of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico City. Among his important works are the following: Brevísima resumen de historia antigua de Guanajuato; Mapa linguistico de Norte y Centroamérica; Materiales para una bibliografia etnográfica de la América Latina; Fray Bernardino de Sahagún y su obra; Códice de Yanhuitlán; Tribus e idiomas del norte de México; Esquema de la historia de la población de México. Address: Córdoba 73, México 7, D.F.
1 There are even priestly insignia which are similar to those in use among Christians. Thus, the chicoacolli is similar to the crozier of the bishops, even though it is smaller.
