BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:456@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240307T140000 DTSTAMP:20240222T185711Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/wip-xoquiiac-eoatoc/ SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Xoquiiac Eoatoc in Eztli / The Rising St ench of Blood: Blood Sacrifice and the Senses in Historia general and Hist oria verdadera DESCRIPTION:\n–presented by Rebecca Smith\, Doctoral Student\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Grou p\n\nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register for this event\, please fill out t he form below.\n\n\nUsing Book 12 of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Historia g eneral de las cosas de Nueva España written around 1555 in Nahuatl and Be rnal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España completed around 1568 in Spanish as its central objects of analys is\, this study investigates the way 16th-century chroniclers–from both Mexica and Spanish traditions–invoke seemingly identical olfactory assoc iations with bloodshed as they recount their sides of the Spanish-Mexica W ar (1519-1521). Rebecca Smith argues these similarities stem from what app ear to be surprising compatibilities in religious belief in and olfactory interpretations of blood sacrifice since both cultures associate it with t he sweet-smelling purification of transgression\, transgression that witho ut such cleansing\, would smell foul. However\, Smith ultimately concludes that ambiguity in the Nahuatl vocabulary of the senses calls into questio n the olfactory similarities in the chronicles\, opening up the possibilit y that they may be a case of what James Lockhart calls Double Mistaken Ide ntity.\n\nRebecca Smith is a fourth-year doctoral student in the departmen t of Comparative Literature where she studies early modern Spanish and Nah uatl texts. Additionally\, Smith is involved in translation\, urban humani ties\, and experimental sound projects at UCLA.\n\nSmith is pursuing the G raduate Certificate in Early Modern Studies\, administered by the Center f or 17th- &\; 18th-Century Studies. Her study is supported by the progra m’s Summer Mentorship award\, and her faculty mentor is Professor Barbar a Fuchs.\n\n\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Available at Digital Florentine C odex/Códice Florentino Digital\, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Mari a Houtrouw\, "Book 12: The Conquest of Mexico"\, fol. 1r\, Getty Research Institute\, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/1r?sp Texts=&\;nhTexts= CATEGORIES:Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR