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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... society in action to those of us who wistfully strive to , have been baffled by that unnerving discrep- ancy between the high decorum and fastidious social and aesthetic sensibility of the Mexica world , and the mas- sive carnality of ...
... society in action to those of us who wistfully strive to , have been baffled by that unnerving discrep- ancy between the high decorum and fastidious social and aesthetic sensibility of the Mexica world , and the mas- sive carnality of ...
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... society: those most local institutions and patterned experiences, those clusters of sociabilities, through which individuals are made partici- pant in cultural knowledge.13 I will need to map the experi- ential landscape of household ...
... society: those most local institutions and patterned experiences, those clusters of sociabilities, through which individuals are made partici- pant in cultural knowledge.13 I will need to map the experi- ential landscape of household ...
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... society and political organization, others having written extensively and effectively from these perspectives. Tenochtitlan was a beautiful parasite, feeding on the lives and labour of other peoples and casting its shadow over all their ...
... society and political organization, others having written extensively and effectively from these perspectives. Tenochtitlan was a beautiful parasite, feeding on the lives and labour of other peoples and casting its shadow over all their ...
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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