Everyday Life in the Aztec World
Everyday Life in the Aztec World
Michael E. Smith , Arizona State University
Looking for an inspection copy?
This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact asiamktg@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.
$35.00
USDIn Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.
- Offers Insight into 'real life' activities, behavior, beliefs, and decisions
- Examines a wide range of people's lives by spending whole chapters on specific categories of people
- Uses vignettes based on sound scholarly understandings of Aztec culture
Reviews & endorsements
'A vast amount of sociocultural information is cleverly interwoven in this carefully crafted narrative …' C. C. Kolb, Choice
Product details
No date availableAdobe eBook Reader
9781108889315
0 pages
85 b/w illus. 4 maps
Table of Contents
- Part I. Lives:
- 1. The Emperor
- 2. The priest
- 3. The featherworker
- 4. The merchant
- 5. The farmer
- 6. The slave
- Part II. Intersecting Lives:
- 7. A child is born
- 8. Marketday in Tlatelolco
- 9. Judgement day
- 10. A battle far afield
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index.
