Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Aztec World
Author: Elizabeth Hill BoonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aztecs
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Everyday Life in the Aztec World
Author: Frances F. BerdanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108894410
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. 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.
The Aztec World
Author: Field Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history, this book covers such contemporary concerns as the environment and agriculture, health and disease, women and social status, and urbanism. It also discusses the effects of European conquests on Aztec culture and society, in addition to offering modern perspectives on their civilization. The text is accompanied by colorful illustrations and photos of artifacts from the best collections in Mexico, including those of the Templo Mayor Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, both in Mexico City, as well as pieces from archaeological sites and virtual reconstructions of lost artwork. The book accompanies an exhibition at The Field Museum.
The Aztecs
Author: David CarrascoPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195379381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Author: Manuel Aguilar-MorenoPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195330838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.
The Aztec Economic World
Author: Kenn HirthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107142776
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World
Author: Miguel Leon-PortillaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132914
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.
Moctezuma's Mexico
Author: David CarrascoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Profiles the history, people, culture, artwork, beliefs, and daily life of Moctezuma's Mexico.
Fifth Sun
Author: Camilla TownsendPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190673060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Tenochtitlan
Author: José Luis de RojasPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059461
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire before the Spanish conquest, rivaled any other great city of its time. In Europe, only Paris, Venice, and Constantinople were larger. Cradled in the Valley of Mexico, the city is unique among New World capitals in that it was well-described and chronicled by the conquistadors who subsequently demolished it. This means that, though centuries of redevelopment have frustrated efforts to access the ancient city’s remains, much can be told about its urban landscape, politics, economy, and religion. While Tenochtitlan commands a great deal of attention from archaeologists and Mesoamerican scholars, very little has been written about the city for a non-technical audience in English. In this fascinating book, eminent expert José Luis de Rojas presents an accessible yet authoritative exploration of this famous city--interweaving glimpses into its inhabitants’ daily lives with the broader stories of urbanization, culture, and the rise and fall of the Aztec empire.