Artículo

Sahagún"s Tlauculcuicatl, a Nahuatl Lament

Burkhart, Louise M.

Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, publicado en Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl ( (Revistas UNAM)

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Entidad o dependencia
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM
Revista
Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl
Repositorio
Revistas UNAM
Contacto
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Cita

Burkhart, Louise M. (1986). Sahagún"s Tlauculcuicatl, a Nahuatl Lament. Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl; Vol. 18, 1986; 181-218. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/4145406

Descripción del recurso

Autor(es)
Burkhart, Louise M.
Tipo
Artículo de Investigación
Área del conocimiento
Artes y Humanidades
Título
Sahagún"s Tlauculcuicatl, a Nahuatl Lament
Fecha
2022-10-13
Resumen
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún"s Psalmodia christiana (1583) was the only component of his massive ethnographic and doctrinal corpus to be published during the friar"s lifetime. Its purpose, as Sahagún states in his prologue to the book, was to adapt the Nahuas" custom of praising their deities through song to the colonial situation by replacing their old songs with new ones of Christian content. To Sahagún the traditional songs, the esoteric language of which was incomprehensible to him and his fellow friars, resembled a forest of thick brambles planted by the devil to conceal his worship. In 1576 he observed that Indians continued to sing sorne of the old songs, as well as others that they had composed after conversion in which Christian elements were mixed with many "errors and heresies". But since the custom of singing praises was in itself laudable, Sahagún sought to change the songs rather than to eliminate the custom.
Idioma
spa
ISSN
ISSN impreso: 0071-1675

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