Collecting, Extinguishing, Rewriting and Restaging Cultural Identity and History: Cultural Encyclopedias on New Spain (B07)

该项目考察了来自新西班牙（今墨西哥）的三本文化百科全书，迄今为止，这些百科全书被解释为传教士收集、记录和存档前西班牙知识的结果。然而，如果考虑到西班牙之前的手稿被烧毁的情况（这也是在这些手稿被编纂的时候发生的），传教士们写的多文本手稿和插图就会以一种相当不同的方式出现。像这些百科全书这样的手稿在当时对土著知识的重写和再现过程中所产生的强大影响是这项研究的重点。

This project examines three cultural encyclopaedias from New Spain (present-day Mexico), which have hitherto been interpreted as the result of missionaries collecting, recording and archiving pre-Hispanic knowledge. If, however, one takes the burning of pre-Hispanic manuscripts into account, which also took place at the time these were compiled, the multiple-text manuscripts the missionaries wrote and illustrated appear in a rather different light. The powerful effect which manuscripts like these encyclopedias had on the processes of rewriting and restaging indigenous knowledge at that time is a key focus of this study.