Sahagún's nahuatl texts as indigenist documents

Resumen

Spain's conquests in the New World were both physical and spiritual; of these the latter was, certainly, more important. That Hispanicization succeeded to the degree that it did, however, must have been due largely to the way in which cultural changes were imposed. In the Nahua area, the very important body of information compiled by Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún' s informants shows how some of the cultural changes in ancient Indian ways of life were coming about in the XVI Century.