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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... were ready borrowers, too, claiming dances and ritual forms, even formulations of sacred pow- ers, from other and lesser peoples; pouring wealth and invention into their increasingly flamboyant ceremonial . That their own 14 Introduction.
... were ready borrowers, too, claiming dances and ritual forms, even formulations of sacred pow- ers, from other and lesser peoples; pouring wealth and invention into their increasingly flamboyant ceremonial . That their own 14 Introduction.
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... ceremonial performances was not the raw content- the names of ' months ' and ' deities ' honoured , the broad ritual script - but the distinctive elaborations and intensi- ties they brought to their ritual performances , set in the ...
... ceremonial performances was not the raw content- the names of ' months ' and ' deities ' honoured , the broad ritual script - but the distinctive elaborations and intensi- ties they brought to their ritual performances , set in the ...
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... ceremonial precinct of once-independent Tlatelolco, flanking the great square of its thriving market. Cort ́es was carefully laconic in his initial report to the Emperor Charles, maintaining a businesslike style as he described the ...
... ceremonial precinct of once-independent Tlatelolco, flanking the great square of its thriving market. Cort ́es was carefully laconic in his initial report to the Emperor Charles, maintaining a businesslike style as he described the ...
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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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