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Primeros Memoriales, Part 1, Volume 200: Facsimile Edition

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Availability:In StockContributor:Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Ferdinand Anders (Photographer)Series:Civilization of the American Indian #200Publish date:1993-12-15Pages:182
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806116884ISBN-10:806116889UPC:9780806116884Book Category:Foreign Language Study, HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Latin AmericaBook Topic:Central America, MexicoSize:16.90 x 11.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:4.0543Product ID:SCHYFJ6EG9

Primeros Memoriales, by Fray Bernardino de Sahag n, is a valuable document providing great understanding and knowledge of provincial Mesoamerican civilization.

In 1558 the Spanish Franciscan missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahag n was commissioned by the Catholic Church to conduct a systematic investigation of the indigenous culture, particularly the religious/ritual system, the dominant native language of Central Mexico, Sahag n worked with trilingual (Nahuatl/Spanish/Latin) Indian assistants between 1559 and 1561 to produce what came to be known as the Primeros Memoriales. Although it originally was intended to facilitate the proselytizing efforts of the Church, this priceless document by the father of modern ethnography contributes more significantly than any other single project to our knowledge and understanding of provincial Mesoamerican civilization.

Sahag n chose Tepepolco, a large town northeast of Mexico City, as the site of his study; there he interrogated a group of elderly, upper-class informants. The result was explanations, written Nahuatl by his assistants. The first stage of Sahag n's monumental Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana, the Primeros Memoriales is a significant document in its own right. Less than 10 percent of the written data and virtually none of the iconography were incorporated into the Historia General. The Primeros Memoriales is unique, moreover, because it deals with Aztec culture from the point of view of a sizable but provincial Mexican community rather than the urban, aristocratic viewpoint represented in most other documents. The Primeros Memoriales is housed in two repositories in Madrid - the Palacio Real of the Patrimonio Nacional and the Real Academia de la Historia. In 1905 Aztec scholar Francisco del Paso y Troncoso selected 108 pages from the Palacio Real and 68 from the Real Academia that he judged to be the materials Sahagun had assembled in Tepepolco and gave the assembled manuscript the name Primeros Memoriales.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806116884ISBN-10:806116889UPC:9780806116884Book Category:Foreign Language Study, HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Latin AmericaBook Topic:Central America, MexicoSize:16.90 x 11.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:4.0543Product ID:SCHYFJ6EG9
Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de: - Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), called the "father of modern ethnography," arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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