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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... Flowers ' , Latin Ameri- can Indian Literatures 4 : 1–11 , 1980 , and for the song - poem on p . 302 , from Miguel León - Portilla , ' Translating Amerindian Texts ' , Latin American Indian Literatures 7 : 101-22 , 1983 . Copyright 1980 ...
... Flowers ' , Latin Ameri- can Indian Literatures 4 : 1–11 , 1980 , and for the song - poem on p . 302 , from Miguel León - Portilla , ' Translating Amerindian Texts ' , Latin American Indian Literatures 7 : 101-22 , 1983 . Copyright 1980 ...
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... flowers and ponds and tame birds . He concluded : ' I say again that I stood looking at it , and thought no land like it would ever be discovered in the world , because at that time Peru was neither known nor thought of . But today all ...
... flowers and ponds and tame birds . He concluded : ' I say again that I stood looking at it , and thought no land like it would ever be discovered in the world , because at that time Peru was neither known nor thought of . But today all ...
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... flowers and fruits. The city's grandeur was also planned. The main temple precinct contained an area of perhaps five hundred metres square, dense with the immaculately worked masonry of more than eighty structures: the pools, pyramids ...
... flowers and fruits. The city's grandeur was also planned. The main temple precinct contained an area of perhaps five hundred metres square, dense with the immaculately worked masonry of more than eighty structures: the pools, pyramids ...
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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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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