Book

General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 3 -- the origin of the gods

The School of American Research and the University of Utah (14) (4) • Published In 1952 • Pages: viii, 68 , 4 plates

By: Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590, Anderson, Arthur J. O, Dibble, Charles E..

Abstract
The Franciscan missionary Sahagún presaged modern ethnography when, beginning the 1540s, he initiated a project to better comprehend pre-Conquest Aztec ideology and culture, interviewing elderly elites and having the data transcribed and illustrated by multilingual native scholars over a period of some thirty years. This is an English language translation of the original side-by-side Spanish and Nahuatl text. It describes Aztec mythology (including traditional history of the "Toltecs"), eschatology and funerals, and the education of young men for warfare and for the priesthood.
Subjects
Mythology
Burial practices and funerals
Eschatology
Education system
Priesthood
Verbal arts
Organized ceremonial
Asceticism
Real property
Theory of disease
Revelation and divination
culture
Aztecs
HRAF PubDate
2017
Region
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub Region
Central Mexico
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Missionary
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
James R. Leary ; 1958
Field Date
1540-1579
Coverage Date
1500-1579
Coverage Place
central highland Mexico
Notes
Fray Bernadino de Sahagún ; translated from the Aztec, with notes and illustrations, by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Uniform title: Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. English & Aztec
LCCN
51002409
LCSH
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities/Aztecs/Natural history--Mexico/Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540/Mexico--Antiquities