Format:
1 online resource (785 pages)
ISBN:
9780199341979
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks
Content:
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. The Handbook concludes with a discussion of the Aztec presence in contemporary society. Articles in the Handbook examine new research trends and methodologies and current debates.
Content:
Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction-Aztec Studies: Trends and Themes -- Part I Archaeology of the Aztecs -- 1. Ancient Stone Sculptures: In Search of the Mexica Past -- 2. The Historical Sources: Codices and Chronicles -- 3. Museums and the Conservation of Mexica Cultural Heritage -- Part II Historical Change -- 4. Comments on Cultural Continuities Between Tula and the Mexica -- 5. Aztec Settlement History -- 6. The Creation, Rise, and Decline of Mexica Power -- 7. The Measure, Meaning, and Transformation of Aztec Time and Calendars -- 8. Aztec Pictography and Painted Histories -- 9. The Languages of the Aztec Empire -- 10. Aztec State-Making, Politics, and Empires: The Triple Alliance -- 11. Nahua Thought and the Conquest -- Part III Landscapes and Places -- 12. Aztec Agricultural Production in a Historical Ecological Perspective -- 13. Population History in Precolumbian and Colonial Times -- 14. Aztec Urbanism: Cities and Towns -- 15. Tenochtitlan -- 16. Aztec Palaces and Gardens, Intertwined Evolution -- 17. Households in the Aztec Empire -- Part IV Economic and Social Relations in the Aztec Empire -- 18. Aztec Agricultural Strategies: Intensification, Landesque Capital, and the Sociopolitics of Production -- 19. The Structure of Aztec Commerce: Markets and Merchants -- Part IV-A Aztec Manufacturing -- 20. Aztec Use of Lake Resources in the Basin of Mexico -- 21. Aztec Metallurgy -- 22. Aztec Obsidian Industries -- 23. Aztec Lapidaries -- 24. Pottery and the Potter's Craft in the Aztec Heartland -- 25. Pregnant in the Dancing Place: Myths and Methods of Textile Production and Use -- Part IV-B Social Relations -- 26. Gender and Aztec Life Cycles -- 27. The Human Body in the Mexica Worldview -- 28. Nahua Ethnicity.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199341962
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199341962
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Azteken
