Aztecs
Aztecs
An Interpretation
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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.
- 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
Reviews & endorsements
'… 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
'This is an outstanding book …' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Product details
May 2014Paperback
9781107693562
574 pages
215 × 137 × 31 mm
0.85kg
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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.
