Format:
1 online resource (111 pages)
ISBN:
9780199702190
Series Statement:
Very short introductions
Content:
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it 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. David Carrasco looks beyond Spanish accounts that have colored much of the Western narrative to let Aztec voices speak about their origin stories, the cosmic significance of their capital city, their methods of child rearing, and the contributions women made to daily life and the empire. Carrasco discusses the arrival of the Spaniards, contrasts Aztec mythical traditions about the origins of their city with actual urban life in Mesoamerica, and outlines the rise of the Aztec empire. He also explores Aztec religion, which provided both justification for and alternatives to warfare, sacrifice, and imperialism, and he sheds light on Aztec poetry, philosophy, painting, and especially monumental sculpture and architecture. He concludes by looking at how the Aztecs have been portrayed in Western thought, art, film, and literature as well as in Latino culture and arts.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The city of Tenochtitlan: center of the Aztec world -- 2 Aztec foundations: Aztlan, cities, peoples -- 3 Aztec expansion through conquest and trade -- 4 Cosmovision and human sacrifice -- 5 Women and children: weavers of life and precious necklaces -- 6 Wordplay, philosophy, sculpture -- 7 The fall of the Aztec empire -- 8 The return of the Aztecs -- References -- Further reading -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195379389
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Carrasco, Davíd, 1944 - The Aztecs Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780195379389
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=800807
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