{"id":2242,"date":"2019-06-11T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/digging-ecm\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:16:05","slug":"subaltern-recogito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/digging-ecm\/2019\/06\/subaltern-recogito\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaltern Recogito: Annotating the sixteenth-century maps of the Geographic Reports of New Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re very pleased to have been awarded a Pelagios Commons<\/a> Resource Development Grant to explore the annotation of a series of historic maps using Recogito<\/a>. Our corpus of maps includes those produced in the sixteenth-century for the Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de Nueva Espa\u00f1a\u00a0<\/em>across the area which is currently Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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On Monday 17th June, in collaboration with our colleagues in the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections<\/a> at The University of Texas at Austin<\/a>, the National School of Anthropology and History<\/a> (ENAH), The National Autonomous University of Mexico<\/a> (UNAM), the National Institute of Anthropology and History<\/a> (INAH), and the University of Lisbon<\/a>, we will be delivering an online workshop which will deliver training on Recogito<\/a> for the annotation of the sixteenth-century maps of the Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We will be working with 27 scholars from UNAM<\/a> and ENAH<\/a>, delivering training on Recogito<\/a>, and presenting an introduction to the Spatial Humanities and the use of these technologies. From here, this will evolve into a citizen science project, where we will meet online every week to take part in \u2018mappathons\u2019 with all our participants, completing the annotation of our full corpus of sixteenth-century maps.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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\u2018The map of Cempoala<\/a>\u2019
\nRelaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de M\u00e9xico y Guatemala, 1577-1585.<\/em> Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda Icazbalceta Manuscript Collection, University of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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We will be annotating the full corpus of the Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda Icazbalceta Collection of\u00a0Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas of Mexico and Guatemala<\/a> (University of Texas at Austin<\/a>), as well as a number of maps from the Archivo General de Indias<\/a> and the Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n<\/a>. These maps are a unique reflection on sixteenth-century settlements in Mexico, drawn using a combination of indigenous and European techniques and ideas. This interplay of indigenous and European voices is a key part of these maps\u2019 significance, offering a unique insight into multiple perceptions of space and place during this crucial period in Mexico\u2019s history. The maps of the RGs contain a great variety of information, both textual and pictographic, which offer invaluable insight into the historical and geographical contexts in which these maps were produced. This information includes proper names in the form of both traditions, logographic Mesoamerican toponyms and people\u2019s names and European alphabetic glosses.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Glyphs and Glosses<\/h4><\/div>
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Digitally annotating these maps using Recogito gives us a promising opportunity to analyse this corpus, which is not heavily text-based, but features text alongside pictographic depictions of space and place. Annotating both logographic toponyms and alphabetic descriptions and place-names will enable us to better understand the different ways in which Mesoamerican indigenous spatial knowledge and portrayals changed over time, and the processes through which these became \u2018subaltern\u2019 to European thinking.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Close-up view of a toponym glyph and alphabetic gloss for Cempoala<\/strong>
\n\u2018The map of Cempoala<\/a>\u2019. Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de M\u00e9xico y Guatemala, 1577-1585. <\/em>Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda Icazbalceta Manuscript Collection, University of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Close-up view of a logographic depiction of the \u2018Cerro de tigre\u2019 with alphabetic gloss<\/strong>
\n\u2018The map of Teguantepec<\/a>\u2019. Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de M\u00e9xico y Guatemala, 1577-1585. <\/em>Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda Icazbalceta Manuscript Collection, University of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Close-up view of a toponym glyph and alphabetic gloss for Amiztlan<\/strong>
\n\u2018The map of Jojupango<\/a>\u2019. Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de M\u00e9xico y Guatemala, 1577-1585. <\/em>Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda Icazbalceta Manuscript Collection, University of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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You can read the Pelagios Commons<\/a> announcement here<\/a> to read more about their Small Grant Awards and other awardees!<\/p>\n<\/div>

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