Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, Volume 2

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ID7522348
AuthorsBernardino De Sahagun (corresponding author)
EditorsCarlos María De Bustamante
Year1829
Publication date1829-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHistoria General de las Cosas de Nueva España (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511792885
OpenAlexW4254130964
Open LibraryOL34512157M
ISBN9780511792885
LanguageES
Citations received13

Friar Bernardino Sahagûn was in 1529 one of the first Catholic missionaries to the Aztecs. During his sojourn in Mexico he came to speak Nahuatl (the native language) fluently and to understand the Aztec culture, customs, religion and infrastructure intimately. He compiled the largest and most richly detailed record of the Aztecs and their history before the civilisation was wiped out by the Spanish conquest, and Sahagûn is sometimes considered 'the father of ethnology', as his study was the first to derive from the subjects' own point of view, through using native informants in his research. The work, written in 1540, was originally an illustrated manuscript of twelve books in a combination of Nahuatl and Spanish; this version, in Spanish only, was first published in 1829. Volume 2 examines the government and monarchy, the gold and precious stone industry, sacrificial divination, and Aztec theology and moral philosophy

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Civilization · CONQUEST · Divination · Ethnology · Humanities · Literature · Monarchy · Nahuatl · Political science · Politics · Classics · History · Latin American history and culture · Law

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