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..

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 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.
Subjects
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
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 - 1966, 1984
Field Date
1540-1579
Coverage Date
1480-1579
Coverage Place
central and southern 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