The Conservation of the Historical Memory of the Anahuac Peoples in the PreHispanic Codices and Colonial Pictographic Manuscripts of Mexico: From the 16th to the 21st Century. From Bernardino de Sahagún to Miguel León Portilla
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2023 |
| Descripción: | This work traces the path of first and subsequent ethnographers who, throughout the centuries following the Spanish conquest, undertook a gigantic task in order to find and collect information and data, from any source available then, or later discovered on the subject of ancient cultures once inhabiting the vast territory of the Anahuac. The main purpose of these researchers was learning about, preserving and divulging the historical memory and cultural patterns of these populations. Two men stand out among those scholars: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, and Miguel León Portilla. Sahagún, a Spanish friar, carried out research on the subject since the middle of the 16th century. He collected valuable and key information which was later translated and transcribed into Spanish language. Most of this knowledge was gathered from educated Aztecan people who helped Sahagún with this mission. Besides, Indigenous Scholars as well as first educated generation of mestizos joined to that huge task of collect its own version of their precolumbian past and their vision of the Spanish Conquest. Four centuries later, at the middle of the 20th century, Miguel León Portilla, a Mexican historian, anthropologist and philosopher, would carry on an extensive research on the past events and cultural patterns in history of ancient Anahuac territory. León Portilla had, at the time, recourse to all existing texts on the theme, and also to a large amount of old and new findings about the ancient cultures which flourished in this part of Mesoamerica. This historian would keep working on that subject until his final days in 2019. It is fair to mention that throughout four centuries long, some other early ethnohistorians provided valuable contributions to the knowledge of the history of pre-Hispanic Mexico by continuing Sahagún’s path. Among them, Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora in the 17th century, Francisco Javier Clavigero in the 18th century and Fernando Chavero in the 19th century, all of them stood out for their valuable contributions to the studies on the peoples of ancient Mexico. The article ends by underlining León Portilla’s huge contribution with a significant amount of published studies that have been essential to the divulgement of the extraordinary history and cultural achievements of the ancient civilizations from the Anahuac valley. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Lenguaje: | Español Inglés Portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/17943 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/historia/article/view/17943 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | ethnohistory codices historical memory colonial manuscripts Bernardino de Sahagún Miguel León Portilla etnohistoria códices memoria histórica manuscritos coloniales historia etno-história memória histórica manuscritos coloniais |