Aztecs : an interpretation

Author:Inga Clendinnen

Summary:In considering the culture of the Aztecs of Mexico it is impossible to ignore the extravagance of their practice of the ritual killing of humans. This book renders those killings intelligible through investigation of a wide field of social action (women, warriors, priests and commoners).

Print Book, English, 1995

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995

Series:

Canto

Physical Description:XIII ; 398 p. [24] p. de lám.

ISBN:

9780521400930, 9780521446952, 9780521485852, 0521400937, 0521446953, 0521485851

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:632005393

Subjects:

Aztecas

Aztecas Ritos y ceremonias

Aztecas Usos y costumbres

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Note; Epigraph; Introduction; Part I. The Place: 1. The city: time and place; 2. The city: integration and division; Part II. The People: 3. Victims; 4. Warriors, priests, merchants and makers; 5. The masculine self discovered; 6. Wives; 7. Mothers; 8. The female being revealed; Part III. The Sacred: 9. Art; 10. Artifacts; 11. Ritual Epilogue; 12. The city destroyed; A question of sources.