Aztecs: An InterpretationIn 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre 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. |
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... Aztec studies to the north. But as I sit at my typewriter facing south towards the pen- guins, I comfort myself that distance too has its advan- tages. At least it gives a long perspective. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR LITERARY MATERIAL AND ...
... Aztec studies to the north. But as I sit at my typewriter facing south towards the pen- guins, I comfort myself that distance too has its advan- tages. At least it gives a long perspective. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR LITERARY MATERIAL AND ...
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... Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico , by Miguel León - Portilla . Copyright 1966 by Beacon Press . Pro- fessor Gordon Brotherston , University of Essex , and Thames and Hudson Ltd. for the song - poems on pp . 313 and 314– 315 ...
... Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico , by Miguel León - Portilla . Copyright 1966 by Beacon Press . Pro- fessor Gordon Brotherston , University of Essex , and Thames and Hudson Ltd. for the song - poems on pp . 313 and 314– 315 ...
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... Aztecs , as we have come to call them . The word ' Aztec ' has been used to mean a number of things , from the ' empire ' which sprawled across much of mod- ern Mexico , to the people of the magnificent lake city who were its masters ...
... Aztecs , as we have come to call them . The word ' Aztec ' has been used to mean a number of things , from the ' empire ' which sprawled across much of mod- ern Mexico , to the people of the magnificent lake city who were its masters ...
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... Aztec studies ' , the detail of the human sacrifice issue , and initially the whole matter of religion , tended to be set aside in favour of other matters state formation , economic arrangements – taken to be somehow closer to the hard ...
... Aztec studies ' , the detail of the human sacrifice issue , and initially the whole matter of religion , tended to be set aside in favour of other matters state formation , economic arrangements – taken to be somehow closer to the hard ...
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... Aztecs were the Lords of All Creation; everything belonged to them. Everything was theirs! From the coast came everything that could be found in the sea; scallop shells ... large and small sea snails, curious fish bones ... stones from ...
... Aztecs were the Lords of All Creation; everything belonged to them. Everything was theirs! From the coast came everything that could be found in the sea; scallop shells ... large and small sea snails, curious fish bones ... stones from ...
Contents
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Local Perspectives | 63 |
Victims | 121 |
Warriors Priests and Merchants | 156 |
The Masculine Self Discovered | 200 |
Wives | 216 |
Mothers | 246 |
The Female Being Revealed | 292 |
Aesthetics | 301 |
The World Transformed the World | 333 |
Defeat | 375 |
Select Bibliography | 511 |
Index | 545 |
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action Aztec battle Bernardino de Sahagún blood body Borbonicus calpulli Cantares Mexicanos captives ceremonial chapter conquest Cortés cultural dance death deity Diego Durán display eagle earth edited empire feast feathers female festival fire flayed flesh Florentine Codex flowers formal girls goddess gods heart Historia honour household Huitzilopochtli human Ibid images imperial Indian ixiptlas jaguar Johanna Broda León-Portilla living López Austin lords maguey maize male merchants Mesoamerican metaphor Mexica Mexico City Miguel León-Portilla Moctezoma mother Nahua Nahuatl noble Nonetheless notion Nueva España Ochpaniztli offered one’s painted Panquetzaliztli performance perhaps Press priestly priests pulque pyramid quetzal Quetzalcoatl Quiñones Keber regalia representations rior ritual ruler sacred power Sahag´un’s sexual skin slaves social society song Spaniards Spanish Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan Texcoco Tezcatlipoca thou tion Tlaloc Tlatelolco tlatoani Toci Toltec translation tribute valley victims warrior house woman women Xipe Totec young