Sahagún and the transition to modernity
By: Walden Browne.
Series: Oklahoma project for discourse and theory ;; v. 20
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Sahagún, Bernardino de, d. 1590 -- Philosophy.; Franciscans -- Missions -- Mexico.; Franciscans -- Theology.; Nahuas -- Missions.; Aztecs -- Historiography.; Philosophy, Modern.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (P. 233-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Series Editors' Foreword ix; title: Acknowledgments xi; title: Introduction 3; title: Part I. The Critical, Symbolic, and Historical Construction; title: of Fray Bernardino de Sahagin 15; title: Chapter 1. Sahagun's Entrances into History: An Episodic; title: Examination of How Sahaguin Became an; title: Object of Scholarly Desire 17; title: Chapter 2. Paternity Suits and Cases of Mistaken; title: Identity: Current Interpretations of Sahaguin's; title: Mind-Set and Symbolic Importance 53; title: Part z. Sahaguin and His Worlds Lox; title: Chapter 3. When Worlds Collide: Crisis and Structure in; title: Sahagun's Historia universal I03; title: Chapter 4. Problems of Mimesis and Exemplarity in; title: Sahagun's Work 144; title: Chapter 5. Sahagun, the Devil, and the Disintegration of; title: a Medieval Conceptualization of Knowledge 185; title: Notes 215; title: Bibliography 233; title: Index 249.