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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... performances staged in the main temple precinct of Tenochtitlan , rather than those at a local or household level : performances financed by an expanding state , and correctly if not comprehensively characterized as a the- atre of ...
... performances staged in the main temple precinct of Tenochtitlan , rather than those at a local or household level : performances financed by an expanding state , and correctly if not comprehensively characterized as a the- atre of ...
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... performances, recruiting different groups of participants from differ- ent social levels in complex sequence, were themselves sculpted successions of choreographed emotions loosely organized around a theme, and made the more potent for ...
... performances, recruiting different groups of participants from differ- ent social levels in complex sequence, were themselves sculpted successions of choreographed emotions loosely organized around a theme, and made the more potent for ...
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... performances were. I have given little attention to the 'movable feasts' of the 260-day cal- endar, again to deepen the reader's familiarity with some of the month-long and more accessible festivals of the sea- 11 Introduction.
... performances were. I have given little attention to the 'movable feasts' of the 260-day cal- endar, again to deepen the reader's familiarity with some of the month-long and more accessible festivals of the sea- 11 Introduction.
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... 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 context of the ...
... 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 context of the ...
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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