Bernardino de Sahagún

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title: Bernardino de Sahagún
text: Bernardino de Sahagún was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain. Born in Sahagún, Spain, in 1499, he journeyed to New Spain in 1529. He learned Nahuatl and spent more than 50 years in the study of Aztec beliefs, culture and history. Though he was primarily devoted to his missionary task, his extraordinary work documenting indigenous worldview and culture has earned him the title as “the first anthro
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description: 16th-century Franciscan friar and missionary in colonial Mexico
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_de_Sahag%C3%BAn
date created: 2004-04-23T06:56:41Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T22:06:45Z
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