{"product_id":"the-aztec-fascination-with-birds-eugene-s-hunn-9780999075982","title":"The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering 16th-Century Sources in N疉uatl","description":"The Aztec empire was established in the Valley of Mexico in the 14th century, eventually dominating a vast region from a base on their island capital city, Tenochtitl疣. Hern疣 Cort駸 sacked Tenochtitl疣 for Spain in 1521. Missionary friars arrived soon after to begin the Christianization of the Mesoamerican population. To facilitate their conversion, Franciscan scholars trained the descendants of the Aztec nobility in alphabetic writing. Indigenous students\/colleagues soon mastered written Latin and learned to write their native N疉uatl. Fray Bernardino de Sahag佖 organized a complex ethnographic enterprise employing Indigenous colleagues to compile an encyclopedia of Indigenous Aztec knowledge. This work survived in Spanish translation as the \u003ci\u003eHistoria General de las Cosas de Nueva Espa\u003c\/i\u003e and was subsequently published with parallel N疉uatl and English texts as the \u003ci\u003eFlorentine Codex.\u003c\/i\u003e Book 11 of the \u003ci\u003eCodex\u003c\/i\u003e is devoted to \"Earthly Things\" of which the \"Second Chapter, ...telleth of all the different kinds of birds.\" Over 130 are named and described and illustrated in varying detail. However, establishing the correspondence of these birds with our contemporary ornithological inventory of Mexican birds has been a challenge. The Mexican biologist Mart匤 del Campo published an analysis based on the Spanish version in 1940, and his suggested identifications have been treated as definitive. I have reviewed the evidence in light of contemporary knowledge and offer here a refined analysis of the probable identities of the birds named in the Codex with a detailed rationale. This material offers rich insights into a Mesoamerican traditional natural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eugene S. Hunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0999075985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999075982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Society of Ethnobiology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Eugene S. Hunn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321228521727,"sku":"9780999075982","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45cc1bac-11dd-4545-9825-28cb9ff8aa06.jpg?v=1696329792","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-aztec-fascination-with-birds-eugene-s-hunn-9780999075982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}