Everyday Life in the Aztec World
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- Authors:
- Frances F. Berdan, California State University, San Bernardino
- Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University
- Date Published: December 2020
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521736220
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In 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.
Read more- 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
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'A vast amount of sociocultural information is cleverly interwoven in this carefully crafted narrative …' C. C. Kolb, Choice
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- Date Published: December 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521736220
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 151 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 85 b/w illus. 4 maps
- availability: Available
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.
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