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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Page vii
... 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 page ix xi xiii xvii 1 19 63 121 156 200 6 Wives 216 ...
... 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 page ix xi xiii xvii 1 19 63 121 156 200 6 Wives 216 ...
Page xi
... Nahuatl, I am especially indebted to Miguel Le ́on-Portilla and his students, and to North American scholars like Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart for their readi- ness to share the fruits of their most taxing labours. My greatest ...
... Nahuatl, I am especially indebted to Miguel Le ́on-Portilla and his students, and to North American scholars like Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart for their readi- ness to share the fruits of their most taxing labours. My greatest ...
Page xiii
... Nahuatl poem on p . 372 , from ' Words Great and Small : Sierra Nahuatl Narrative Dis- course in Everyday Life ' , 1983. Unpublished manuscript . Latin American Indian Literatures Journal , for the song - poems on pp . 312 and 314 ...
... Nahuatl poem on p . 372 , from ' Words Great and Small : Sierra Nahuatl Narrative Dis- course in Everyday Life ' , 1983. Unpublished manuscript . Latin American Indian Literatures Journal , for the song - poems on pp . 312 and 314 ...
Page xv
... Merseyside. The Spanish penetrate the main tem- ple precinct of Tenochtitlan: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, by courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. NOTE ON NAHUATL The Aztecs , or more properly the xv Literary Material and Illustrations.
... Merseyside. The Spanish penetrate the main tem- ple precinct of Tenochtitlan: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, by courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. NOTE ON NAHUATL The Aztecs , or more properly the xv Literary Material and Illustrations.
Page xvii
... Nahuatl pronunciation . Nahuatl words will be italicized only for their first appearance . The accent , which commonly falls on the second - to - last syllable , will not be marked . Pluralizations will not follow Nahuatl practice , but ...
... Nahuatl pronunciation . Nahuatl words will be italicized only for their first appearance . The accent , which commonly falls on the second - to - last syllable , will not be marked . Pluralizations will not follow Nahuatl practice , but ...
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