LeonPortilla, Miguel
Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist
- ISBN 13:
- 9780806142715
- author:
- LeonPortilla, Miguel
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2002
- Pages:
- 340
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 centimeters (0.4
- Genre:
- Biography, Historical, History,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Bernardino de Sahagun was sent to Mexico as part of a religious crusade, but instead became one of the first anthropologists of the New World. He developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. Sahagun's life story is one of fascinating contradictions - he came to Mexico intent on changing its traditions and cultures, yet ended up working to preserve them at great personal cost. Through his work, Sahagun documented numerous ancient texts and native testimonies, developing a pioneering research methodology that would shape the field of anthropology. This biography presents Sahagun as a complex individual, both of his time and ahead of his time. It is a rich and absorbing account of his life and legacy, which continues to be felt today through his most comprehensive works, Primeros Memoriales and Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España.
Related Products
Related Products
The Anthropologists
Savas, Aysegül
The Anthropologists
Savas, Aysegül
Think Like an Anthropologist
Engelke, Matthew
Karl Marx, Anthropologist
Patterson, Thomas C.
Kant as Philosophical Anthropologist
Pitte, F. P. van de