Aztecs: An InterpretationIn 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings. |
Contents
III | 1 |
IV | 13 |
V | 15 |
VI | 45 |
VII | 85 |
VIII | 87 |
IX | 111 |
X | 141 |
XV | 213 |
XVI | 236 |
XVII | 265 |
XVIII | 267 |
XIX | 275 |
XX | 277 |
XXI | 295 |
XXII | 298 |
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action Aztec battle Bernardino de Sahagún blood body calpulli Cantares captives ceremonial chapter Codex Borbonicus Códice conquest Cortés Culture dance death deity Diego Durán display eagle earth edited empire feast feathers featherworkers female festival fire flayed flesh Florentine Codex flowers formal girls goddess gods heart Historia honour Huaxtecs Huitzilopochtli human images imperial Indian individual ixiptlas jaguar killing stone living López Austin lords maguey main temple precinct maize male marked merchants Mesoamerican Mexica Mexico City Miguel León-Portilla Moctezoma mother Nahua Nahuatl noble Nonetheless notion Nueva España Ochpaniztli offered painted Panquetzaliztli particular performance perhaps Press priestly priests pulque pyramid quetzal Quetzalcoatl regalia representations ritual ruler sacred power sacrifice sexual skin slaves social society song Spaniards Spanish Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan Tezcatlipoca thou tion Tlaloc Tlatelolco tlatoani Toci Toltec transformation translation tribute University valley victims warrior house woman women Xipe Totec young