Adolfo Guzman-Lopez covers higher education for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
The Getty unveiled this month the final product of an eight-year effort to digitize a massive, centuries-old encyclopedia of central Mexican indigenous culture. That process has already started changing lives.
“I never seen any manuscripts and the Florentine Codex was the first manuscript or codex that I had seen,” she said. The conservation and dissemination of documentary heritage is functional to greater understanding and dialogue between peoples, to promote peace, human rights, and dignity.“I think going to be really great for... Latinx and Zapotec people and people at large to see it… they’re going to relate to it,” she said.
The writing and art describes the Mexica world: their gods, their food, their social customs, and their accounts of the Spanish military invasion that took place about 50 years before the Codex was written. “The Digital Florentine Codex stands on the shoulders of these great scholars. To complement these already published versions, we invited scholars to provide new translations,” said Kim Richter, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute.
It’s also developing recommendations for how to use the Codex in classrooms, and offering workshops for teachers and professors.
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