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.
- 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