Nahua Responses to the Matlazahuatl or “Mystery” Plague of 1805
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7768063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Farren Yero (Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-112 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-10888043 |
| OpenAlex | W4391854121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
In 1805, the pueblo of Tultitlan fell victim to an ostensibly mysterious new plague. After a year of curative treatment, it spread across what is now Mexico State, prompting urban officials to authorize the use of smallpox vaccination—an intervention that elicited fierce debate steeped in tensions around Indigeneity, religion, and parental rights. Drawing on newspapers and other colonial records, the article examines how different Nahua families responded, centering their concerns and expectations—of immunization and religious and public health officials—to reframe critical questions about the gender and racial politics of vaccine history and its contested relationship to colonial rule
Ancient history · Geography · Plague (disease) · History · Latin American history and culture · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychedelics and Drug Studies
Genealogical Fictions
Dispossessed Lives
The Human Body and Ideology
Colonialism and Other Afflictions
The Economics of Sick Calves
Pestilence and Headcolds
The "Real Expedicion Maritima de la Vacuna" in New Spain and Guatemala
Colonial Pathologies
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Circulating smallpox knowledge
Informed Refusal
Virgin Soils Revisited
Spanish and Nahuatl Views on Smallpox and Demographic Catastrophe in Mexico
The Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine in 1803 and the Adoption of Immunization as a Government Function in Puerto Rico
A Pest in the Land
Heran Todos Putos
Epidemics and Enslavement
Theorizing Refusal
Ethics in Human Biology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |