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The Aztec empire /

Title
The Aztec empire / curated by Felipe Solís
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Guggenheim Museum Publications, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90635005
  • Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80053294
  • Solís Olguín, Felipe R.
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79065486
Description
375 p. : col. ill., maps; 34 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Aztec empire, curated by Felipe Solís, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 15, 2004-February 13, 2005"--T.p. verso.
  • "This exhibition is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-374).
Contents
  • Introduction / Felipe Solís -- Art in the Aztec empire: Traces of an identity / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The Aztecs and the natural world: The basin of Mexico as a habitat for pre-Hispanic farmers / William T. Sanders -- The harmony between people and animals in the Aztec world / Mercedes de la Garza -- The Aztecs and their ancestors: Precolumbian man and his cosmos / Felipe Solís -- Origins and forms of art in the Aztec empire / Felipe Solís -- The Olmec / Ann Cyphers -- Teotihuacan / Linda Manzanilla -- Tula and the Tolteca / Richard A. Diehl -- The Templo Mayor: Excavations at the Templo Mayor / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan / Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza -- Aztec religion: Aztec religion : creation, sacrifice, and renewal / Karl Taube -- Axis mundi / Roberto Velasco Alonso -- Gods and rituals / Guilhem Olivier -- Painted books and calendars / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Aztec society: Nobles and commoners / Michael E. Smith -- Everyday life in Tenochtitlan / Michael E. Smith -- The Aztec empire: The Aztec empire / Richard F. Townsend -- The provinces of the Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan -- The population of the Mexico and Toluca valleys / Perla Valle Pérez -- The Puebla and
  • Tlaxcala valleys / Verónica Velásquez -- The domain of Coatlapan / José Luis Rojas Martinez -- The Mixteca / Nelly M. Robles Garcia -- The Huaxteca and the Totonaca / Felipe Solís -- The Tarascan empire: The Tarascan empire / Phil C. Weigand -- Tarascan art / Roberto Velasco Alonso -- The fall of the empires: The conquest as seen by the Mexica-Aztecs / Miguel León-Portilla -- The Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan / Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo -- Catalogue chekclist -- Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 0892073217 (hardcover)
  • 0892073225 (softcover)
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library