Format:
xxix, 748 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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26 cm
ISBN:
9780199341962
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks
Content:
Part I. Archaeology of the Aztecs -- Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The historical sources: codices and chronicles / Juan José Batalla -- Museums and the conservation of Mexica cultural heritage / María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi -- Part II. Historical change -- Comments on cultural continuities between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas and Robert H. Cobean -- Aztec settlement history / Larry Gorenflo and Christopher P. Garraty -- The creation, rise, and decline of Mexica power / Enrique Florescano -- The measure, meaning and transformation of Aztec time and calendars / Anthony F. Aveni -- Aztec pictography and painted histories / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- The languages of the Aztec empire / Jane Hill -- Aztec state making, politics, and empires: the triple alliance / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Heredia Espinoza -- Nahua thought and the conquest / Michel R. Oudijk and Maria Castañeda de la Paz -- Part III. Landscapes and places -- Aztec agricultural production in a historical ecological perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia and Diana Martínez Yrizar -- Population history in pre-Columbian and colonial times / Lourdes Márquez Morfín and Rebecca Storey -- Aztec urbanism: cities and towns / Michael E. Smith -- Tenochtitlan / José Luis de Rojas -- Palaces and gardens, intertwined evolution / Susan Toby Evans -- Households in the Aztec empire / Kristin De Lucia -- Part IV. Economic and social relations in the Aztec empire -- Aztec agricultural strategies: intensification, landesque capital, and the socio-politics of production / Christopher Morehart -- The structure of Aztec commerce: markets and merchants / Kenneth Hirth and Deborah L. Nichols -- Aztec use of lake resources in the basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser -- Aztec metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler -- Aztec obsidian industries / David M. Carballo and Alejandro Pastrana -- Aztec lapidaries / Cynthia Otis Charlton and Alejandro Pastrana -- Pottery and the potter's craft in the aztec heartland / Leah D. Minc -- Pregnant in the dancing place: myths and methods of textile production and use / Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty -- Gender and Aztec lifecycles / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- The human body in the Mexica worldview / Alfredo López Austin -- Nahua ethnicity / James M. Taggert -- Inequality and social class in Aztec society / Michael E. Smith and Frederic Hicks -- Part V. Aztec provinces, friends, and foes -- Structure of the Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan -- Mexica war: new research perspectives / Marco A. Cervera Obregón -- Aztec provinces of the central highlands / Maëlle Sergheraert -- Aztec provinces of the southern highlands / Gerardo Gutiérrez -- Aztec provinces of the gulf lowlands / Marcie L. Venter -- Tututepec: a Mixtec imperial capital in southern Oaxaca / Marc N. Levine -- Cholula in Aztec times / Patricia Plunket and Gabriella Uruñuela -- The independent Republic of Tlaxcallan / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- The tarascan (purépecha) empire / Anna S. Cohen and Christopher Fisher -- Aztec empire in comparative perspective / R. Alan Covey and Amanda Aland -- Part VI. Ritual, belief, and religion -- Humans and gods in the Mexica universe / Guilhem Olivier -- Aztec art, time, and cosmovisión / William Barnes -- The Aztec ritual landscape / Leon Garcia Garagarza -- State ritual and religion in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan / Alfredo López Austin and Leonardo López Luján -- Aztec domestic ritual / Lisa Overholtzer -- Part VII. Aztecs after the conquest -- Postconquest rural Aztec archaeology / Patricia Fournier G. and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- Postconquest urban Aztec archaeology / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- The Aztecs and the Catholic Church / Louise M. Burkhart -- Aztec art after the conquest in Mexico and in museums abroad / Ray Hernández Durán -- The Aztecs and their descendants in the contemporary world / Alan R. Sandstrom
Note:
Series statement from book jacket
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190634179
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199341979
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Oxford handbook of the Aztecs New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Azteken
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