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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... Priests and Merchants 5 The Masculine Self Discovered page ix xi xiii xvii 1 19 63 121 156 200 6 Wives 216 7 Mothers 246 8 The Female Being Revealed 292 Part III. The Sacred 9 Aesthetics 301 10 Ritual: The World Transformed, the World ...
... Priests and Merchants 5 The Masculine Self Discovered page ix xi xiii xvii 1 19 63 121 156 200 6 Wives 216 7 Mothers 246 8 The Female Being Revealed 292 Part III. The Sacred 9 Aesthetics 301 10 Ritual: The World Transformed, the World ...
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... priests to locate contest and the fine-drawn boundaries of self; into the world of the long-distance traders to discover a Mexica vision of romance; into the zone of art to find the nature of the real. So I hope to arrive at something ...
... priests to locate contest and the fine-drawn boundaries of self; into the world of the long-distance traders to discover a Mexica vision of romance; into the zone of art to find the nature of the real. So I hope to arrive at something ...
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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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