Aztecs: An Interpretation - Hardcover

Clendinnen, Inga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521400937 ISBN 13: 9780521400930

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication of Aztec culture with the savagery of human sacrifice, she attempts to explain the philosophy, rituals, and social structures that underpinned this remarkable empire.

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'This is an outstanding books, as rich in its reconstruction of social details as in its lucid analyses of the 'interior architecture' of the Aztec world ... Clendinnen makes a wonderfully informative and illumiating contribution to our understanding of Aztec society. Her book deserves a wide readership.' The Higher

'There is no other book quite like this one. It is probably the best presentation of the Aztec people, their culture, and their city from the point of view of the Aztecs themselves.' Michael D. Coe, Yale University

'Professor Clendinnen, an eloquent writer, a brilliant historian, and a very creative thinker, has crafted an intelligent book that is both informative and truly engaging.' J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Princeton University

'Aztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human cultures. I am grateful for the opportunity to have read her book.' David Brading, London Review of Books

Product Description:

Physical description: xiii, 398 p., [20] p. of plates. Subjects: Aztecs - Juvenile literature. Social life and customs. Rites and ceremonies.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521400937
• ISBN 13: 9780521400930
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 414