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Aztecs : an interpretation / Inga Clendinnen.

Title
Aztecs : an interpretation / Inga Clendinnen.
Author
Clendinnen, Inga.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Description
xiii, 398 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Study and examination of Aztec society, art, rites, and ceremonies before the Aztec empire fell to the Spanish in 1521.
Subject
  • Aztecs > Social life and customs
  • Aztecs > Rites and ceremonies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (365-387) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The city. Tenochtitlan: The public image -- Local perspectives -- Roles. Victims -- Warriors, priests and merchants -- The masculine self discovered -- Wives -- Mothers -- The female being revealed -- The sacred. Aesthetics -- Ritual: The world transformed, the world revealed -- The city destroyed. Defeat -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0521400937 (hardback)
  • 0521446953 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^90048598^
OCLC
  • 22451031
  • SCSB-10044152
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library