Research Catalog

Title

Sahagún and the transition to modernity / Walden Browne.

Author

Browne, Walden, 1964-

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2000.

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Description

xii, 260 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, best known as the most important source for information on precolonial and colonial Nahuas (Aztecs), is generally recognized as an anthropologist, a humanist, and a practitioner of modern scientific methods. In Sahagun and the Transition to Modernity, Walden Browne paints a strikingly different picture of the sixteenth-century Franciscan Fray Sahagun - as a product of his times rather than as a precursor of the modern era. Browne argues that Sahagun's work actually signals the disintegration of medieval ways of knowing in the crisis-ridden missionary environment of New Spain more than four hundred years ago."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oklahoma project for discourse and theory ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Oklahoma project for discourse and theory ; v. 20.

Subject

• Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590 > Philosophy
• Franciscans > Missions > Mexico
• Franciscans > Theology
• Nahuas > Missions
• Aztecs > Historiography
• Philosophy, Modern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Critical, Symbolic, and Historical Construction of Fray Bernardino de Sahagun. Ch. 1. Sahagun's Entrance into History: An Episodic Examination of How Sahagun Became an Object of Scholarly Desire. Ch. 2. Paternity Suits and Cases of Mistaken Identity: Current Interpretations of Sahagun's Mind-Set and Symbolic Importance -- pt. 2. Sahagun and His Worlds. Ch. 3. When Worlds Collide: Crisis and Structure in Sahagun's Historia universal. Ch. 4. Problems of Mimesis and Exemplarity in Sahagun's Work. Ch. 5. Sahagun, the Devil, and the Disintegration of a Medieval Conceptualization of Knowledge.

ISBN

0806132337 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99047301^

OCLC

• 42420950
• SCSB-11311060

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Harvard Library