Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806181346
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” but Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this biography, Miguel León-Portilla presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures he encountered but instead ended up working to preserve them, even at the cost of persecution. Sahagún was responsible for documenting numerous ancient texts and other native testimonies. He persevered in his efforts to study the native Aztecs until he had developed his own research methodology, becoming a pioneer of anthropology. Sahagún formed a school of Nahua scribes and labored with them for more than sixty years to transcribe the pre-conquest language and culture of the Nahuas. His rich legacy, our most comprehensive account of the Aztecs, is contained in his Primeros Memoriales (1561) and Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España (1577). Near the end of his life at age 91, Sahagún became so protective of the Aztecs that when he died, his former Indian students and many others felt deeply affected. Translated into English by Mauricio J. Mixco, León-Portilla’s absorbing account presents Sahagún as a complex individual–a man of his times yet a pioneer in many ways.
Author: Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer
Publisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 229
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Author: James Lockhart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's superior translation combines contemporary English with the most up-to-date, nuanced understanding of Nahuatl grammar and meaning. The foremost Nahuatl conquest account is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. In this monumental work, Fray Bernardino de Sahag�n commissioned Nahuas to collect and record in their own language accounts of the conquest of Mexico; he then added a parallel Spanish account that is part summary, part elaboration of the Nahuatl. Now, for the first time, the Nahuatl and Spanish texts are together in one volume with en face English translations and reproductions of the copious illustrations from the Codex. Also included are five other Nahua conquest texts. Lockhart's introduction discusses each one individually, placing the narratives in context.
Author: Bernardino (de Sahagún)
Publisher: University of Utah Press
ISBN: 9780874801927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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How is it possible that in 1521 five-hundred Spanish soldiers defeated the most powerful military force in Middle America? The answer lies not in western firearms, as we have been taught, but rather in the differences between the Aztec and Spanish cultures. Differing concepts of warfare and diplomacy, reinforced by tensions and stresses within the Aztec political system and its supporting religious beliefs, allowed Cortés to systematically gain and hold the military and diplomatic advantages that gave the Spaniards the day, the war, and the continent.
Author: Bernardino de Sahagún
Publisher: Civilization of the American I
ISBN: 9780806116884
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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This is a full-color facsimile edition of Primeros Memoriales by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and is a valuable document providing great understanding and knowledge of provincial Mesoamerican civilization.
Author: Gerhard Wolf
Publisher: Villa I Tatti
ISBN: 9780674064621
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagÃon (1499âe"1590) worked on a compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing Aztec culture. This volume examines the Aztec use of colorâe"in art and everyday lifeâe"as revealed in the Codex, the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work.
Author: Franca Arduini
Publisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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A celebration of one of the most famous 16th-century manuscripts, The Florentine Codex.
Author: Jonathan Benzion
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004510311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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This work is an academic pursuit that aims to produce innovative scholarly general interest that explores, through a fresh perspective and from a historical approach and a multidisciplinary angle, an understudied subject of Colonial and Early Independent Mexico’s History: Islam.
Author: José Jorge Klor de Alva
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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