Publications

Book

Polanco, Edward Anthony. Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1660. University of Arizona Press, 2024.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Polanco, Edward Anthony. “The Baller and the Court: Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Battle with Ololiuhqui and his Courtship of the Mexican Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico” Ethnohistory 71, no. 2 (2024) doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-10999165

Polanco, Edward. “Tiçiyotl and Titiçih: Late Postclassic and Early Colonial Nahua Healing, Diagnosis, and Prognosis.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford University Press. Article published October 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.792.  

Polanco, Edward Anthony. ““I Am Just a Tiçitl”: Decolonizing Central Mexican Nahua Female Healers, 1535–1635.” Ethnohistory 65, no. 3 (2018): 441-463.doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4451410

Polanco, Edward Anthony. “‘The Chamber of Your Virginity does not have a Price’: The Scientific Construction of the Hymen as an Indicator of Sexual Initiation in Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Footnotes: A Journal of History 1, 2017: 67-88.

Digital

Polanco, Edward. Healing Among Nahua Communities https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/health/healing-among-nahua-communities

Polanco, Edward and Perez Garcia, Sixta, I-Collective – A Gathering Basket – Issue 7 – Atul Shukuk and Sinti

Polanco, Edward Anthony. “Oscillating and Depreciating: Early Modern Spanish Views of Unsanctioned Female Healers.” Nursing Clio, January 5, 2021. https://nursingclio.org/2021/01/05/oscillating-and-depreciating-early-modern-spanish-views-of-unsanctioned-female-healers/.

Polanco, Edward Anthony. “Archivo General De La Nación: Mexico’s Black Palace.” H-Net, February 3, 2020. https://netRworks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/5812320/archivo-general-de-la-naci%C3%B3n-mexico%E2%80%99s-black-palace.