General history of the things of New Spain
Book 1974 Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590 & Anderson, Arthur J. O/Dibble, Charles E.

AztecsMiddle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
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 ...