Aztecs
An Interpretation
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- Author: Inga Clendinnen, La Trobe University, Victoria
- Date Published: May 2014
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- isbn: 9781107693562
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In 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.
Read more- Offers a fascinating study of Aztec culture in the years before it was conquered by the Spaniards
- Provides vividly dramatic analysis of ceremony as performance art
- A thought-provoking book that does not assume specialist knowledge
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'… a fascinating, thought-provoking book. Aztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human culture.' London Review of Books
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- Date Published: May 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107693562
- length: 574 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 137 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.85kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The City:
1. Tenochtitlan: the public image
2. Local perspectives
Part II. Roles:
3. Victims
4. Warriors, priests and merchants
5. The masculine self discovered
6. Wives
7. Mothers
8. The female being revealed
Part III. The Sacred:
9. Aesthetics
10. Ritual: the world transformed, the world revealed
Part IV:
11. Defeat
Epilogue
A question of sources
Monthly ceremonies of the seasonal calendar
The Mexica pantheon
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
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