Book

General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 8 -- kings and lords

The School of American Research and the University of Utah (14) (9) • Published In 1954 • Pages: xii, 89 , 8 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 provides lists of rulers, with their investiture, duties and privileges. Also described are: the garments and diet of the lords and rulers, and the training of their sons; women’s clothing, adornments and activities; and the organization of marketplaces.
Subjects
External relations
Traditional history
History
Disasters
Revelation and divination
Missions
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
Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958
Field Date
1540-1579
Coverage Date
1376-1560
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