Abstract

DEHOUVE, Danièle. Imitation among the Mexica. Trace (Méx. DF) [online]. 2023, n.83, pp.21-52.  Epub Dec 11, 2023. ISSN 2007-2392.  https://doi.org/10.22134/trace.83.2023.866.

The social sciences approach imitation from a double point of view: as gesture and as disguise of the personality (mimicry). A comparable distinction can be found in the vocabulary of imitation in the Nahuatl language (the language of the Aztecs of central Mexico in the 16th century): imitating by means of repeated and concomitant gestures (expressed by reduplicative verbs) and taking on a personality other than one’s own («ixiptla complex»).

Keywords : Nahuatl; imitation; mimicry; gestures; ixiptla.

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