Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Everyday Life in the Aztec World

by Michael E. Smith (Author), Frances F. Berdan (Author)

Synopsis

In Daily Life of the Aztecs, Frances Berdan and Michael Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03 Dec 2020

ISBN 10: 0521736226
ISBN 13: 9780521736220