Aztecs: an interpretation

By:

Clendinnen, Inga

Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Description: xvii, 554p.: ill., maps; pbk.: 22cmISBN:

9781107693562

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

972.018 CLE

Summary: 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

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Includes index, bibliography, and notes.

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

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