México
This chapter explores the historiographical project developed by the sixteenth-century mestizo chronicler Diego Muñoz Camargo, son of a Spaniard and a Native woman from Tlaxcala in New Spain. His project develops in three iterations and in each version tells the history of his mother’s ethnic group: Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala (1584), Suma y epíloga de toda la Descripción de Tlaxcala (1588-1589) and Historia de Tlaxcala (1592). This essay looks at how Muñoz Camargo’s three-stage project responded to, in varying ways, the 1577 relación geográfica questionnaire that was devised by the imperial powers to learn about and better control the subjugated regions in the New World. Muñoz Camargo sought to insert the non-European history of Tlaxcala in a colonial Spanish narrative framework.
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