Abstract

SALADINO GARCIA, Alberto. Instrumento, categoría para la comprensión del nuevo mundo. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2008, n.34, pp.15-24. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v34i1.146.

The variety of meanings of the word ‘instrument’ produced during the XVI century -throughout the works of Bernardino de Sahagún in General History of the Things of New Spain and Francisco Hernández’s Antiquities of New Spain-, such as implement utensil, resource to produce or transform things or objects, musical device, sensitive organ, was a key idea to interpret the Indian American reality and its sociocultural manifestations.

Keywords : instrument; implement; utensil; object; New World.