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Aztecs: An Interpretation

By Inga Clendinnen

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0521446953, 9780521446952
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4186560 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
414\0
Time added
2019-02-03 01:46:32
Aztecshuman sacrificeideologyMesoamericamexicoNáhuatlPsychedelicsQuetzalcoatlReligionreligious artritualSociologyTezcatlipocaTotecwarfare

Description

Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication of Aztec culture with the savagery of human sacrifice, she attempts to explain the philosophy, rituals, and social structures that underpinned this remarkable empire. List of illustrations   Acknowledgements   Acknowledgements for literary material and illustrations   Note on nahuatl   Introduction   Part I. The City   1 Tenochtitlan: The Public Image   2 Local Perspectives   Part II. Roles   3 Victims   4 Warriors, Priests and Merchants   5 The Masculine Self Discovered   6 Wives   7 Mothers   8 The Female Being Revealed   Part III. The Sacred   9 Aesthetics   10 Ritual: The World Transformed, the World Revealed   Part IV. The City Destroyed   11 Defeat   Epilogue   A Question of Sources   Monthly Ceremonies of the Seasonal (solar) Calendar: XIUITL   The Mexica Pantheon   Notes   Select Bibliography   Index   Artefacts

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