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- His translations of primary Aztec documentation have made a large and complicated corpus accessible to intensive study; his interpretations and analyses have stimulated scholarly research and debate; and his numerous syntheses of Aztec literature and culture have extended an understanding of ancient Mexico to a worldwide audience.
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He contributed to the understanding of the development of the field of Mesoamerican history in Mexico. With Garibay, León-Portilla made contributions to the study of nineteenth-century Mesoamerican historian Manuel Orozco y Berra. León-Portilla also published two volumes on the work of Mesoamerican humanists, including his mentor Garibay.
- Mexican
- 1 October 2019 (aged 93), Mexico City, Mexico
- 22 February 1926, Mexico City, Mexico
- Philosopher, anthropologist, historian
All of this has led Miguel León-Portilla to ponder how, in spite of multiple technical limitations and an absence of draft animals, Mesoamericans independently achieved a level of civilization equal to the societies of the Tigris and Euphrates, Nile, Indus, and Huang Ho river valleys.
A very important aspect of León-Portilla's academic activities, to which little attention seems to have been given, is his most significant contribution to our knowledge of the sixteenth-century Franciscan writers who were important witnesses of the Mexican indigenous past.
Jan 20, 2016 · However, in 1955, Miguel León-Portilla (1926–2019) challenged the received view and renewed our interest in Mesoamerican thought by publishing his influential La filosofía náhuatl—emphasis on filosofía—a collection of recovered texts translated into Spanish that deal with cosmology, metaphysics, anthropology, ethics, and aesthetics ...
- Guillermo Hurtado, Robert Eli Sanchez
- 2016
Museo del Templo Mayor, Guatemala 60, Colonia Centro, 06060 Ciudad de México, Mexico. After a long hospital stay, Mexican historian and philosopher Miguel León-Portilla passed away on October 1, 2019, at the age of 93. His prodigious work is known throughout the world because classics such as La filosofía náhuatl (León-Portilla 1956 ...
This event demonstrated the lasting influence that Miguel León Portilla had on the study of Mesoamerican history, Nahua culture, and the Nahuatl language. Category: Campus News Tags: Alumni, Faculty, Global-Local Affairs, History College: Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. MEDIA INQUIRIES.
Sep 1, 1990 · Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture. In this absorbing work León-Portilla probes the question, What did time really...
