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  • 8 - Investigating Cuauhtémoc’s Bones

  • from Part III - Governance, Politics, and Self-Determination
  • Edited by Adam Warren, University of Washington, Julia E. Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire, Stephen T. Casper, Clarkson University, New York
  • Book:
    Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences
    Published online:
    24 October 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 211-236
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    This chapter probes the relation of both science and Indigeneity to nationalism – and of all of these to gender. Rosemblatt focuses on a controversy that began in 1949–1950, when remains said to have belonged to Cuauhtémoc, the last Mexica emperor, were found buried in Ixcateopan, Guerrero. Two official commissions denied the authenticity of the burial, but local officials, along with the broader public, found the story expedient, and anthropologist Eulalia Guzmán lent support to their view. Intellectuals who grounded Mexican greatness in their own cosmopolitan scientific neutrality faced off against those who stressed the Indigenous roots of Mexican national identity. The episode reveals differing views of what constituted scientific proof and how science and indigeneity were related to nationalism and politics more generally. Because the pro-authenticity group was led by a woman, it provides a window onto the gendering of scientific authority. The village of Ixcateopan, the chapter argues, actively engaged science along with Guzmán and her allies.