Harriet Smart

In September I convened a two-day conference at the University of Sheffield with the aim of exploring indigenous histories, cultures and languages. While there was particular focus on the Mexican indigenous language Nahuatl, we covered

Technologically inferior, but at one with nature – JK Rowling’s ‘History of Magic in North America’ amounts to little more than a Eurocentric collection of reductive stereotypes that betrays the depth and diversity of indigenous

The Aztecs are infamous for their apparently astonishing, and unparalleled, capacity for state-sponsored violence (indeed, when I tell people where my research interests lie I am often met with a rather startled face). To many,