Primeros Memoriales (Civilization of the American Indian) [Hardcover]

Fray Bernardino de Sahagun (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0806129093 | ISBN-13: 978-0806129099 | Publication Date: May 15, 1997 | Edition: Revised

Primeros Memoriales is here published for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation.

During the 1960s, Thelma D. Sullivan, a Nahuatl scholar living in Mexico, began a paleographic transcription of the Primeros Memoriales, along with an English translation. After Sullivan’s death in 1981, a group of her colleagues finished, enlarged, and annotated her project. This long-awaited publication makes available to specialists and interested laypersons alike an invaluable portion of the remarkable Sahaguntine treasure of information on sixteenth-century Aztec society.

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Text: English (translation)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press; Revised edition (May 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806129093
• ISBN-13: 978-0806129099
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #945,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review from Latin American Indian Literatures Journal, January 18, 2000

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This review is from: Primeros Memoriales (Civilization of the American Indian) (Hardcover)

"....This edition of Sahagún's first ethnographic study of Mesoamerican culture from the city of Tepepolco (comonly referred to as Primeros Memoriales) has many virtues. Among them are the text's status as a companion volume to an accessible facsimile edition (1993, Volume 200, Part One of the same series). The study reflects a collaboration of noted scholars offering multiple interpretations of a variety of aspects of the document. The information within provides a detailed treatment of non-Mexican residents of the Valley of Mexico....

....In a tribute to Sullivan's efforts, this edition of the Primeros Memoriales has brought together a veritable Dream Team of Nahuatl linguists and translators, art and cultural historians, and bibliographers, resulting in not only a comprehensive and trustworthy study but also a shining example of the need for collaborative efforts in this very interdisciplinary field. For those of us learning Nahuatl but who are not as advanced as we would like to be, the knowledge that Sullivan, Dibble, and Anderson have all participated in the translation allows a more confident approach to the material contained in the Primeros Memoriales. This translation, presented in conjunction with the paleography so that we can see the Nahuatl ourselves, and the facsimile so that we can corroborate our information, also increases the value of this edition. The collaborators and their press should be highly commended for their efforts. Jeanne L. Gillepsie"

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A splendid edition in fac-simile, March 19, 1999

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This review is from: Primeros memoriales (Hardcover)

Bernardino de SAHAGUN worked a sixty years to concept and write his "Historia Universal de las cosas de Nueva España", also known as "Codex florentinus". This is his first step. The text is in nahuatl (the second part presents an English translation) with splendid free-hand drawings.