TY  - GEN
AU  - Clendinnen, Inga
TI  - Aztecs: an interpretation
SN  - 9781107693562
U1  - 972.018 CLE 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - History - Latin America - Mexico
KW  - Aztecs - Social Life and Customs
KW  - Human Sacrifice
KW  - Aztecs - Rites and Ceremonies
KW  - Indian Allies
KW  - Aztec Ceremony - Performance Art
N1  - Includes index, bibliography, and notes
N2  - In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre 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.

Offers a fascinating study of Aztec culture in the years before it was conquered by the Spaniards
Provides vividly dramatic analysis of ceremony as performance art
A thought-provoking book that does not assume specialist knowledge

https://www.cambridge.org/an/titles/aztecs-interpretation
ER  -