The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering 16th-Century Sources in Náhuatl

by Eugene S. Hunn

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 n. Hern n Cort s sacked Tenochtitl n 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999075985
• ISBN13: 9780999075982
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Society of Ethnobiology
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"