Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto Classics)

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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 606
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 15 May 2014
ISBN 10: 110769356X
ISBN 13: 9781107693562
Book Overview: Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.

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'... a fascinating, thought-provoking book. Aztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human culture.' London Review of Books
'This is an outstanding book ...' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Aztecs: An Interpretation (Canto Classics)

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