| Edition |
Canto ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 398 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 2 maps ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-387) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: City: -- Tenochtitlan: the public image -- Local perspectives -- Part 2: Roles: -- Victims -- Warriors, priests and merchants -- Masculine self discovered -- Wives -- Mothers -- Female being revealed -- Part 3: -- Sacred -- Aesthetics -- Ritual: the world transformed, the world revealed -- Part 4: -- City Destroyed: -- Defeat -- Epilogue -- Question of sources -- Monthly ceremonies of the seasonal calendar -- Mexica pantheon -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Synopsis: In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center 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. |
| Subject |
Aztecs -- Social life and customs.
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies.
(OCoLC)fst00824754
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Aztecs -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst00824757
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| ISBN |
0521485851 (pbk.) |
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9780521485852 (pbk.) |
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