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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 Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this biography, Miguel León-Portilla presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures he encou...

Un acontecimiento poético: la primera antología bilingüe de la lengua náhuatl, traducida por Miguel León-Portilla y con imágenes de Vicente Rojo, que «aporta una sinfonía de colores» a estos versos rebosantes de belleza y hondura.

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Cuestiones claves en la antropologia americanista como han sido las formas de desarrollo de las culturas indigenas, el florecer de sus instituciones, la conquista, evangelizacion y dominacion de las conciencias amerindias, la traslacion del lenguaje oral al escrito, entre otros, fueron estudiados y discutidos antes por sus autores en trabajo de seminario, y se reunen aqui a la busqueda de posibles rasgos identificadores de la antropologia amer...

Los mesoamericanos comenzaron a desarrollar, siglos antes de la era cristiana, incipientes formas de escritura. No todos los mesoamericanos llegaron a poseer una escritura completa, correspondio a los mayas la invencion de tal logro. Entre los mixtecos, nahuas y otros mesoamericanos, al no tener una escritura completa, se mantenia la tradicion oral. El proposito de este libro es valorar el largo proceso que marco el destino de la palabra indig...

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For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning these people, commonly called Aztecs, includes, in ...

En este libro excepcional se ofrece un cuadro completo de lo que fue la evolucion cultural de los pueblos nahuas, y se muestra cual fue su conciencia historica. Tambien se explican sus tradiciones, los ideales religiosos y guerreros, sin olvidar el pensamiento filosofico que les dio raiz y el legado espiritual.

Penetrar en los arcanos de la historia y del pensamiento náhuatl a través de sus propias palabras es acercarnos al corazón de un pueblo que vivió la grandeza y el infortunio en carne propia. Miguel León-Portilla, con el profundo conocimiento que posee de la antigua palabra, logra llegar hasta los más íntimos sentimientos que formaron las bases de una filosofía, de una manera de entender el mundo presente en mitos, relatos, anales, códices y mu...

The first anthology in any language to represent the full trajectory of this remarkable literature.

In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel León-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of time. At the book's first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a classic in anthropology, " a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars. Like no other people in history, the ...

Volume 92 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the Tarascans of Michoacan, the Otomís of central Mexico, and others. They have come down to us from inscriptions on stone, the codic...

The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted!In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.The texts are first-rate, and the introductions are informative and reliable....

Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and anal...