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Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 8. Xiuhcoyotl (“turquoise coyote”) device. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales , 1559–1561, fol. 75r (detail). Courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.
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Published: 01 July 2020
Plate 8. Xiuhcoyotl (“turquoise coyote”) device. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales , 1559–1561, fol. 75r (detail). Courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid.
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 145–172.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Berenice Alcántara; Pedro A. Muñoz Abstract Bernardino de Sahagún is well known for having headed a major research project about the Nahuas of Central Mexico in the sixteenth century. However, many years before this project began, Sahagún wrote several sets of sermons in the Nahuatl language...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the Florentine Codex, a twelve-book encyclopedic work on Mexica religion, social organization, and earthly things compiled over two decades by Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún (1500–90). Based on various medieval and Renaissance natural histories, book 11 offers a unique window into how the natural...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 9–34.
Published: 01 January 2007
... a degraded but institutionalized role to play. American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún’s Faggots and Sodomites,
Lesbians and Hermaphrodites
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Abstract. This article provides a method for interpreting the place of sexuality in
texts that defy...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... I think of the codex as three texts in one, each the product of
a colonial process that involved both Spaniards and Nahuas. Fr. Bernardino
de Sahagún, a Franciscan educated in Spain at the University of Salamanca,
arrived in New Spain in 1529. He became fluent in Nahuatl and worked...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (4): 495–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
... (Sahagún 1950–82 , 2:130–32, 9:60–61; 2001, 1:209–10, 2:730–31; Graulich 2016 : 203; Schwaller 2019 : 72). With this, the slaves were ready to enter the last week of their lives, filled with more rituals that would inevitably culminate in the bloody sacrifice on top of Huey Teocalli...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (3): 489–513.
Published: 01 July 2019
... as the Florentine Codex Fray Bernardino de Sahagún included a selection of metaphorical expressions in Nahuatl, accompanied by an explanation in Spanish. Among these the Franciscan registered a couplet otimatoiavi otimotepexiuj , literally “you hurled yourself off the precipice, you threw yourself into a river...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 623–645.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of the conquest in Book XII of the Florentine Codex under the supervision of the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún. The codex consists of twelve books on a variety of topics, from Nahua cosmological beliefs and society to natural history and a history of the Spanish-led invasion of Tenochtitlan. Today...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 383–406.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Plate 8. Xiuhcoyotl (“turquoise coyote”) device. Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros memoriales , 1559–1561, fol. 75r (detail). Courtesy of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid. ...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 455–479.
Published: 01 July 2020
... that were recorded in three late sixteenth-century sources of central New Spain: book 5 of fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Florentine Codex, a book dedicated to omens, and the historical chronicles of Diego Durán and Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc. These last two documents drew from a single source—today lost...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 437–448.
Published: 01 April 2005
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Sahagún at Five Hundred: Essays on the Quincentenary of the Birth of
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún. Edited by John Frederick Schwaller. (Berkeley,
CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2003. 301 pp., introduc-
tion, bibliography. $35.00 cloth.)
Bernardino de Sahagún: First Anthropologist. By Miguel...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 449–477.
Published: 01 April 2005
... of Fray Alonso de Molina, OFM. Edited and translated by Barry D.
Sell with contributions by Larissa Taylor and Asunción Lavrin. (Berkeley,
CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002. Acknowledgments,
introduction, transcriptions and translations, index. $25.00 cloth.)
Sahagún at Five Hundred...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (4): 671–677.
Published: 01 October 2020
... first in English and later in Spanish. Throughout his career, León-Portilla was fascinated by the early Franciscan missionary friar Bernardino de Sahagún, who is best known for his mammoth encyclopedia of Mexica culture and knowledge that has come to be known as the Florentine Codex but was known...
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Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (1): 149–179.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., a salutation, or an act
of submission and humility. There are no extant iconographic renditions of
tlalqualiztli except for an image accompanying the short description of this
ritual in the Primeros Memoriales compiled by fray Bernardino de Sahagún
(1997: fol. 254v; see fig. 1). It is a picture...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and source text come to resemble inhospitable forests ( quauhtla ), as described in book 11 of the Florentine Codex , in the first paragraph of chapter 6. These woods are “tequanj ichan” (the habitat of wild beasts): the ocelot, wolf, bobcat, snake, spider, rabbit, and deer (Sahagún 1950–82 , bk. 11:105–6...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (4): 683–706.
Published: 01 October 2015
... baskets filled with
comestibles (fig. 5).14
The voluminous chronicles of the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún
follow the same pattern, emphasizing Huey Tozoztli’s celebration of the ten-
der new maize. The Primeros Memoriales of 1559–61 does not mention vene-
rations to Tlaloc. The period...
Journal Article
Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 229–250.
Published: 01 April 2008
... Interpretation of the Aztec Statue
Called Coatlicue, “Snakes-Her-Skirt”
Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract. Most scholars, citing a passage in the sixteenth-century Florentine Codex
by Bernardino de Sahagún (1950–82), have interpreted the famous Aztec stone...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 July 2020
... with feather tassels in his hand and a drum on his back (Sahagún 1950–82 , bk. 8:33). The meticulous detail of this description and those of the tlatoani’s many other war and dance costumes highlights the central use of plumes of neotropical birds for these garments along with adornments of other precious...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Sandstrom, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
In this book, historian of religion Philip Arnold attempts to provide new
ways to think about Aztec religion and to critique the ethnographic enter-
prise by focusing on the writings of sixteenth-century cleric Bernardino
de Sahagún. The work...
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