Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist by Miguel León-Portilla, Mauricio J. Mixco

Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist

Miguel León-Portilla, Mauricio J. Mixco

340 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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He was sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” but Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499-1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for ...

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