Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590. General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex: book 10 -- the people

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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590 Anderson, Arthur J. O/Dibble, Charles E.

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

Published By: Original publisher Sante Fe, New Mexico: The School of American Research and the University of Utah. 1961 [1974 reprint]. 18, 197 p., 14 plates ill.

By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication Fray Bernadino de Sahagún ; translated from the Aztec, with notes and illustrations, by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 2017. Computer File

Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Aztecs (NU07)

Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF Occupational specialization (463); Tillage (241); Mercantile business (441); Smiths and their crafts (326); Felted and other non-interworked fabrics (287); Carpentry (335); Family relationships (593); Lineages (613); Child care (855); Classes (565); Avuncular and nepotic relatives (604); Grandparents and grandchildren (603); Kin relationships (602); Status and treatment of the aged (888); Adulthood (885); Status of adolescents (882); Legal and judicial personnel (693); Military organization (701); Status, role, and prestige (554); Ethnoanatomy (826); Medical therapy (757); Pharmaceuticals (278);

Abstract: Brief 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 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.

Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 20

Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits. nu07-020

Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs. Monograph

Language: Language that the document is written in English translation from Aztec

Note: Uniform title: Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. English & Aztec

Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document 1540-1579

Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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 Missionary-5

Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. John Beierle ; 1984

Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date). 1500-1579

Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site) central highland Mexico

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Indians of Mexico--Antiquities/Aztecs/Natural history--Mexico/Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540/Mexico--Antiquities