Diego Muñoz Camargo
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Diego Muñoz Camargo (1521 - c. 1612) was the author of History of Tlaxcala, an illustrated codex that highlights the religious, cultural, and military history of the Tlaxcalan people.
Camargo was born in Spanish colonial Mexico of a Spanish father and Indian mother. He acted as official interpreter for the Spanish, particularly the Franciscans, and was Governor of Tlaxcala.
He was a businessman who entered into lucrative cross-cultural enterprises. He was able to do this since both her mother and wife belonged to Tlaxcalan nobility and because his father was one of the original Spanish conquistadores of Mexico. He was very active in other realms too. Besides business, he acted as a tutor for the Seminole peoples Cabeza de Vaca brought to Mexico with him, he took urban Tlaxcalan peoples north to Chichimec country ostensibly to ‘civilize’ them, and he took a keen interest in the Spanish chronicles being composed which he inserted into a historical frame with Tlaxcalan tlacuilo manuscripts. This led him to become one of the first Spanish-language chroniclers of Tlaxcala.
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Primary Reference:
- Muñoz Camargo, Diego. Historia de Tlaxcala (Ms. 210 de la Biblioteca Nacional de París). Ed. Luis Reyes García y Javier Lira Toledo. Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala/Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1992.
Secondary Sources:
- Gibson, Charles. “The Identity of Diego Muñoz Camargo.” Hispanic American Historical Review 30 (1950), pp. 195-208.
- Mignolo, Walter D. “El mandato y la ofrenda: la Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala, de Diego Muñoz Camargo, y las relaciones de Indias.” Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 35:2 (1987), pp. 451-484.
- Miller, Marilyn. “Covert Mestizaje and the Strategy of ‘Passing’ in Diego Muñoz Camargo’s Historia de Tlaxcala.” Colonial Latin American Review 6.1 (June 1997): 41-58.
- Mörner, Magnus and Charles Gibson. “Diego Muñoz Camargo and the Segregation Policy of the Spanish Crown.” Hispanic American Historical Review 42 (1962), pp. 558-568.
- Velazco, Salvador. Visiones de Anáhuac: reconstrucciones historiografías y etnicidades emergentes en el México colonial: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo y Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2003.
- Ward, Thomas. “From the ‘People’ to the ‘Nation’: an Emerging Notion in Sahagún, Ixtlilxóchitl and Muñoz Camargo.” Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 32 (2001), pp. 223-234.
- Ward, Thomas. “Expanding Ethnicity in Sixteenth-Century Anahuac: Ideologies of Ethnicity and Gender in the Nation-Building Process.” MLN 116.2 (March 2001), pp. 419-452.
