Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist, Miguel Leon-Portilla's 2002 study from the University of Oklahoma Press, examines the Franciscan friar's pioneering ethnographic work in colonial Mexico with the direct expertise of a leading historian of Nahuatl culture and language. Its strength is that specialist command of the Nahuatl sources Sahagun worked from and produced. Its limit is that it centers Sahagun's own perspective and method; independent assessments of how his informants' own voices survive within his work are worth consulting alongside it.
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Miguel Leon-Portilla's Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist, published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2002, the top tier reflecting an examination of the Franciscan friar's pioneering ethnographic work in colonial Mexico by a leading historian of Nahuatl culture and language. Its limit is that it centers Sahagun's own perspective and method; independent assessments of how his informants' own voices survive within his work are worth consulting alongside it. NotesBiography and study of Bernardino de Sahagun's ethnographic work in colonial Mexico, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
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AuthorMiguel Leon-Portilla
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year2002
Source Typeacademic monograph
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