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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... Mesoamerica and the centres of 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 ...
... Mesoamerica and the centres of 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 ...
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... Mesoamerican Manuscript ) , Vol . 44 , Com- plete true - colour facsimile edition , and the Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale Française , Paris . Feathered headdress : By courtesy of the Museum für Volkerkunde , Vienna . War- rior ...
... Mesoamerican Manuscript ) , Vol . 44 , Com- plete true - colour facsimile edition , and the Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale Française , Paris . Feathered headdress : By courtesy of the Museum für Volkerkunde , Vienna . War- rior ...
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... Mesoamerica.)18 The Mexica's distinc- tive history had begun at Aztlan, the 'Place of White- ness', where they lived surrounded by water on an island in a lake. Then they took canoe to the lakeshore, and began their wanderings ...
... Mesoamerica.)18 The Mexica's distinc- tive history had begun at Aztlan, the 'Place of White- ness', where they lived surrounded by water on an island in a lake. Then they took canoe to the lakeshore, and began their wanderings ...
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... Mesoamerica there was a gen- eral notion of man's tenuous place in the natural order : a recognition of the intimate interdependence of men and maize , and the problematical relationship of each with the givers of rain and growth . But ...
... Mesoamerica there was a gen- eral notion of man's tenuous place in the natural order : a recognition of the intimate interdependence of men and maize , and the problematical relationship of each with the givers of rain and growth . But ...
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Contents
| 19 | |
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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