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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... body of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés and a shifting coali- tion of Indian ' allies ' . So ended the public political exist- ence of the Aztecs , as we have come to call them . The word ' Aztec ' has been used to mean a number of ...
... body of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés and a shifting coali- tion of Indian ' allies ' . So ended the public political exist- ence of the Aztecs , as we have come to call them . The word ' Aztec ' has been used to mean a number of ...
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... body of material we have deriving largely from the target area of 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 ...
... body of material we have deriving largely from the target area of 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 ...
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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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