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Aztecs: An Interpretation

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Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication of Aztec culture with the savagery of human sacrifice, she attempts to explain the philosophy, rituals, and social structures that underpinned this remarkable empire.

Author(s): Inga Clendinnen
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1993

Language: English
Commentary: https://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/aztec-political-thought.html
Pages: 414
Tags: human sacrifice, religion, ritual, ideology, sociology, religious art, psychedelics, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Totec, warfare, Aztecs, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Nahuatl

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  Acknowledgements
  Acknowledgements for literary material and illustrations
  Note on nahuatl
  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. The City Destroyed
  11 Defeat
  Epilogue
  A Question of Sources
  Monthly Ceremonies of the Seasonal (solar) Calendar: XIUITL
  The Mexica Pantheon
  Notes
  Select Bibliography
  Index
  Artefacts