He lived through the Mexican Revolution, the turbulent post-Revolutionary period and the religious persecutions of the Cristera War. Exploring the way in which Mexican Middle-Americanists (or Mesoamericanists) Angel María Garibay and Miguel León-Portilla view the relationship between the pre-Columbian past and its traces, as well as the way in which they have extracted meaning from these traces through translation, the representations conveyed by these translations and the implications therefrom will constitute the focus of this paper.įather Ángel María Garibay was born in 1892 and died in 1967. Translations in the hands of historians, therefore, are important because they are expected to deliver some otherwise unavailable understanding of the past. The purpose of translation in the hands of the historian is history-making, apparently through the obtention of evidence that is considered dormant in untapped written sources.

Translation is thus a significant part of the historiographical process, involving a number of decisions. Indeed, he is even more than that: he “orders” the translation by choosing the text from a selection of other sources sometimes he also carries out the paleography and the edition, then he translates and uses the translation to support his findings. But when the historian translates, he is both translator and end-user. Somebody else will use our translations for his or her purposes. Translation in their hands differs from translation performed by “professional translators” in one important aspect: at least theoretically, the objective of translation performed by the professional translator is the transfer itself.

Historians and anthropologists sometimes need to translate or to use translations in order to have access to sources written in other languages.

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