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Author: Frances F. Berdan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108894410 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Author: Frances F. Berdan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108894410 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195330838 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 466
Book Description
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
Author: Mary G. Hodge Publisher: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 498
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"The Seventeen papers in this collection deal with various aspects of the relationship between economics and the political units which constituted the Aztec state and its main competitor the Tarascan empire...Until recently Aztec studies were dominated by two rather narrow foci...a preoccupation with the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan coupled with neglect of other cities and the rural countryside, and an over-emphasis on the best-known Native and Spanish chronicles which ignored the vast corpus of lesser known but equally important documentary sources...Fortunately a few archaeologists and ethnohistorians, including the contributors to this volume, insisted on expanding the geographical and conceptual parameters of Aztec studies., They also began to employ recent innovative approaches in archaeology, locational geography, economics, political theory, and history in their quest to understand what really happened in central Mexico during the Postclassic period. The result has been some very exciting new perspectives on this fascinating topic."-Richard A. Diehl; Professor of Anthropology; University of Alabama
Author: Camilla Townsend Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190673060 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Author: Rachel Stuckey Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1508149739 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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What brought about the downfall of the Aztec Empire? The answer to this question is waiting for readers to discover as they learn fun facts about the Aztec people and explore common social studies curriculum topics. Readers learn fun and fascinating facts about Aztec life—from their religious beliefs to the sports they played. This information is presented through accessible main text and additional fact boxes. Colorful maps allow readers to develop their geography skills as they see where the Aztec Empire was located. Historical images and contemporary photographs help readers place themselves among the Aztec.
Author: Jacques Soustelle Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486424859 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 388
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A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.
Author: David Carrasco Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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Describes and explains various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, political - with details on such activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.
Author: Elizabeth Morán Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477310711 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 157
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Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into sacred elements within particular rituals, while food in turn gave meaning to the ritual performance. This pioneering book offers the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art. Elizabeth Morán asserts that while feasting and consumption are often seen as a secondary aspect of ritual performance, a close examination of images of food rites in Aztec ceremonies demonstrates that the presence—or, in some cases, the absence—of food in the rituals gave them significance. She traces the ritual use of food from the beginning of Aztec mythic history through contact with Europeans, demonstrating how food and ritual activity, the everyday and the sacred, blended in ceremonies that ranged from observances of births, marriages, and deaths to sacrificial offerings of human hearts and blood to feed the gods and maintain the cosmic order. Morán also briefly considers continuities in the use of pre-Hispanic foods in the daily life and ritual practices of contemporary Mexico. Bringing together two domains that have previously been studied in isolation, Sacred Consumption promises to be a foundational work in Mesoamerican studies.
Author: Eleanor J. Hall Publisher: ISBN: 9781590181607 Category : Aztecs Languages : en Pages : 0
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Discusses the rise and fall of the Aztecs in Mesoamerica before the Europeans arrived in the 15th century and explores their culture, government, architecture, warfare, religion, and education.
Author: Frances F. Berdan
Author: Frances F. Berdan
Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Author: Mary G. Hodge
Author: Camilla Townsend
Author: Rachel Stuckey
Author: Jacques Soustelle
Author: David Carrasco
Author: Elizabeth Morán
Author: Laurie Coulter
Author: Eleanor J. Hall