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Bernardino de Sahagún OFM (c. 1499 – 5 February 1590) was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico). Born in Sahagún, Spain, in 1499, he journeyed to New Spain in 1529.
Franciscan historian, linguist, and ethnologist, considered the precursor of modern cultural anthropology and father of American ethnology; b. Sahag ú n de Campos, Le ó n, Spain, 1499; d. Mexico City, 1590.
The work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) constitutes one of the most renowned historic sources of ancient Mexico. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology and showed singular commitment, reticence and intelligence.
Given that none of Sahagún's ethnographic work was published until the nineteenth century, to call him a "pioneer" or "father" of anthropology (as has been done) is an overstatement: no one followed his path into uncharted territory; he sired no intellectual offspring.
In this chapter, I engage with the work and ideas of the Franciscan friar Ber-nardino de Sahagún, known primarily as a pioneer of cultural anthropology and one of the single most influential ethnographers of the Mexica peoples.
Aug 18, 2022 · With the creation of the “Bernardino de Sahagún” Institute, anthropology was put at the service of the national-Catholic values that the Francoist regime imposed on all levels of public life in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Sahagún was a Franciscan priest who arrived in Mexico very early (1529), learned the Náhuatl tongue, and spent his life building a wonderful monument, a real encyclopaedia called the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (“General History of the Things…
