Book

General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 10 -- the people

The School of American Research and the University of Utah (14) (11) • Published In 1974 • Pages: 18, 197 , 14 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 various Aztec occupations and social stations, presents lists of native terms for parts of the body and of diseases and their treatments, and gives brief descriptions of historical ("Toltec") and contemporary peoples of central Mexico known to the Aztecs.
Subjects
Occupational specialization
Tillage
Mercantile business
Smiths and their crafts
Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
Carpentry
Family relationships
Lineages
Child care
Classes
Avuncular and nepotic relatives
Grandparents and grandchildren
Kin relationships
Status and treatment of the aged
Adulthood
Status of adolescents
Legal and judicial personnel
Military organization
Status, role, and prestige
Ethnoanatomy
Medical therapy
Pharmaceuticals
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
John Beierle ; 1984
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