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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... formal level, but in sensibility: the emotional, moral and aesthetic nexus through which thought comes to be expressed in action, and so made public, visible, and acces- sible to our observation. Therefore my focus will be less on words ...
... formal level, but in sensibility: the emotional, moral and aesthetic nexus through which thought comes to be expressed in action, and so made public, visible, and acces- sible to our observation. Therefore my focus will be less on words ...
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... formal display. These, at least, are my convictions, and my justification for the ori- entation of this study. The exploration of Mexica ritual, its collective concoction, and the many facets and uses of its enchantments, will occupy ...
... formal display. These, at least, are my convictions, and my justification for the ori- entation of this study. The exploration of Mexica ritual, its collective concoction, and the many facets and uses of its enchantments, will occupy ...
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... formal performances at the main tem- ple precinct. The procedure depends on an eclectic array and a promiscuous exploitation of sources.14 It also entails commitment to a view of 'customs' as habituated but not mechanical action, and to ...
... formal performances at the main tem- ple precinct. The procedure depends on an eclectic array and a promiscuous exploitation of sources.14 It also entails commitment to a view of 'customs' as habituated but not mechanical action, and to ...
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... formal claim to be the legitimate heirs of the Toltecs of Tollan, those supremely noble, exemplary and wise craftsmen, and to their legendary and mythic- ally abundant imperial domains, where the cotton grew coloured and bright birds ...
... formal claim to be the legitimate heirs of the Toltecs of Tollan, those supremely noble, exemplary and wise craftsmen, and to their legendary and mythic- ally abundant imperial domains, where the cotton grew coloured and bright birds ...
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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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