Objetivo At the core of this research proposal is the aim of reconstructing and understanding the nature, exact trajectories, mechanisms and implications of cross-cultural contact and transfers between Europeans and the native people of the Americas, focusing on, but not limited to, the Nahuatl-speaking zone of central Mexico. A major innovation of this project is to study this process of cross-cultural communication in its full historical depth, through the colonial and postcolonial eras up to the present day and encompassing different stages and types of contact. The meticulous and cross-disciplinary study of an extensive body of texts in Nahuatl (“Aztec”) and Spanish, complemented by present-day ethnolinguistic data, will make it possible to deduce and understand patterns across time and space in ways novel to existing scholarship, embracing both micro- and macroregional trends. The proposed research starts with identifying transfers in language, studied systematically through the creation of extensive databases, but leads to exploring the substance of cross-cultural transfer and the essence of developments, becoming a fundamental way of studying culture and its transformations. Thus, an important aim is the correlation of language phenomena with more general contact-induced culture change, including especially evolving forms of political, social and municipal organization in the native world, where the change is more salient. Breaking existing disciplinary boundaries in the humanities, the project embraces both indigenous and European perspectives, assuming that the innovation of studying both sides in a single framework and in the proposed time span is particularly promising in dealing with a notably two-sided, prolonged historical process. The complementary lines of research, native and Spanish, are expected to highlight and make understandable factors underlying and facilitating cultural convergence between them in different aspects of colonial life and beyond. Ámbito científico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabaseshumanities Programa(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) ERC-SG-SH6 - ERC Starting Grant - The study of the human past Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2012-StG_20111124 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Institución de acogida UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI Aportación de la UE € 766 002,00 Dirección KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 26/28 00-927 WARSZAWA Polonia Ver en el mapa Región Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Justyna Agnieszka Olko (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Magdalena Stepien (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos Beneficiarios (3) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI Polonia Aportación de la UE € 766 002,00 Dirección KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 26/28 00-927 WARSZAWA Ver en el mapa Región Makroregion województwo mazowieckie Warszawski stołeczny Miasto Warszawa Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Justyna Agnieszka Olko (Dr.) Contacto administrativo Magdalena Stepien (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA España Aportación de la UE € 393 598,00 Dirección CALLE S. FERNANDO 4 41004 Sevilla Ver en el mapa Región Sur Andalucía Sevilla Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Margarita Martínez-País Loscertales (Ms.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos INSTITUTO DE DOCENCIA E INVESTIGACION ETNOLOGICA DE ZACATECAS AC México Aportación de la UE € 159 240,00 Dirección Calle Aguascalientes 216, int. 24 98000 Zacatecas Ver en el mapa Tipo de actividad Research Organisations Contacto administrativo John Joseph Sullivan Hendricks (Dr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Coste total Sin datos