Book
General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 9 -- the merchants
The School of American Research and the University of Utah • (14) (10) • Published In 1959 • Pages: 14, 97 , 13 plates
By: Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590, Anderson, Arthur J. O., Dibble, Charles E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 the history, organization and activities of the Aztec merchants or traders, especially during the late period when the empire was at its greatest extent, and with particular attention to the selling and treatment of slaves. It also provides detailed information on the processes of working gold, silver, and precious stones, and of featherwork, a specialty of the ward of Amantlan in Tenochtitlan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mercantile business
- Travel
- Status, role, and prestige
- Aftermath of combat
- Chief executive
- External trade
- Forest products
- Accumulation of wealth
- Oratory
- Luck and chance
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Visiting and hospitality
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aztecs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle - 1966, 1984
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1540-1579
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1480-1579
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central and southern Mexico
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 51002409
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of Mexico--Antiquities/Aztecs/Natural history--Mexico/Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540/Mexico--Antiquities