Everyday Life In The Aztec World

Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108894410
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in the Aztec World written by Frances F. Berdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195330838
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World written by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754815754
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec and Maya World written by Charles Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of the past are uncovered in this social history of the ancient peoples of Central America and Mexico. The first part of the text explores the landscape of the ancient Mesoamerican world, while the second part reveals the rich and varied architecture and art of the different cultures.

Author : Jacques Soustelle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486424859
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.

Author : Davíd Carrasco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313377456
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by Davíd Carrasco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the fascinating details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study of their social history, culture, and continuing influence, written from the perspective of the history of religions. Utilizing insights from the discipline known as the history of religions, as well as new discoveries in archaeology, pictorial manuscripts, and ritual practices, Daily Life of the Aztecs, Second Edition weaves together a narrative describing life from the bottom of the Aztec social pyramid to its top. This new and surprising interpretation of the Aztecs puts a human face on an ancient people who created beautiful art and architecture, wrote beautiful poetry, and loved their children profoundly, while also making war and human sacrifice fundamental parts of their world. The book describes the interaction between the material and the imaginative worlds of the Aztecs, offering insights into their communities, games, education, foodways, and arts, as well as the sacrificial rituals they performed. The authors also detail the evolution of the Aztec state and explores the continuity and changes in Aztec symbols, myths, and ritual practices into the present day.

Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521516366
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in the Aztec World written by Frances F. Berdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield.

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs written by David Carrasco and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and explains various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, political - with details on such activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.

Author : Jacques Soustelle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804707213
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the advancing civilization of the Aztecs destroyed by Spanish conquest

Author : Michael Ernest Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138100756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Home with the Aztecs written by Michael Ernest Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and prosperous communities. Michael Smith also engagingly describes the scientific, logistic and personal dimensions of archaeological fieldwork, drawing on decades of excavating experience and considering how his research was affected by his interaction with contemporary Mexican communities. Through first-hand accounts of the ways archaeologists interpret sites and artifacts, the book illuminates how the archaeological process can provide information about ancient families. Facilitating a richer understanding of the Aztec world, Smith's research also redefines success, prosperity and resilience in ancient societies, making this book suitable not only for those interested in the Aztecs but in the examination of complex societies in general.

Author : Caroline Dodds Pennock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582338
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonds of Blood written by Caroline Dodds Pennock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.