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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... Tenochtitlan - Tlatelolco , 2 once the magnificent centre of a great system of tribute exac- tion , but reduced in the course of its long and desper- ate defence to a place of desolation , fell to a body of Spaniards led by Hernando ...
... Tenochtitlan - Tlatelolco , 2 once the magnificent centre of a great system of tribute exac- tion , but reduced in the course of its long and desper- ate defence to a place of desolation , fell to a body of Spaniards led by Hernando ...
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... Tenochtitlan. Some distinctions were heavily marked in Nahuatl writings: the abyss between lords and common- ers, with its few perilous bridges across; between the man of wealth distributing largesse and the poor who could only receive ...
... Tenochtitlan. Some distinctions were heavily marked in Nahuatl writings: the abyss between lords and common- ers, with its few perilous bridges across; between the man of wealth distributing largesse and the poor who could only receive ...
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... Tenochtitlan is difficult to sustain. Even in the high cere- monial at the great temple precinct there was so much involvement of 'popular' groups, so much that was min- imally scripted, so much space for comment, that it is impossible ...
... Tenochtitlan is difficult to sustain. Even in the high cere- monial at the great temple precinct there was so much involvement of 'popular' groups, so much that was min- imally scripted, so much space for comment, that it is impossible ...
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... Tenochtitlan. Sahag ́un's marshalling, edit- ing and writing the Nahuatl version of the History, begun in 1547, was completed perhaps by 1568, with an abbre- viated Spanish translation or commentary added later. By 1569 a fair copy of ...
... Tenochtitlan. Sahag ́un's marshalling, edit- ing and writing the Nahuatl version of the History, begun in 1547, was completed perhaps by 1568, with an abbre- viated Spanish translation or commentary added later. By 1569 a fair copy of ...
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... Tenochtitlan - Tlatelolco , it has been a major source for what follows . ( The study is also intended to be some- thing of a methodological exercise : to discover what can be done through the close analysis of a single , if remark ...
... Tenochtitlan - Tlatelolco , it has been a major source for what follows . ( The study is also intended to be some- thing of a methodological exercise : to discover what can be done through the close analysis of a single , if remark ...
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