Inga Clendinnen

Aztecs (eBook, PDF)

An Interpretation

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139950909
• Artikelnr.: 41327635

Autorenporträt

Inga Clendinnen is a distinguished historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America. Her Reading the Holocaust was named a New York Times best book of the year and awarded the NSW Premier's General History Award in 1999. Clendinnen's ABC Boyer Lectures, True Stories, were published in 2000, as was her award-winning memoir, Tiger's Eye. In 2003 Dancing With Strangers attracted wide critical acclaim. Her latest book is Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The City: 1. Tenochtitlan: the public image
2. Local perspectives
Part II. Roles: 3. Victims
4. Warriors, priests and merchants
5. The masculine self discovered
6. Wives
7. Mothers
8. The female being revealed
Part III. The Sacred: 9. Aesthetics
10. Ritual: the world transformed, the world revealed
Part IV: 11. Defeat
Epilogue
A question of sources
Monthly ceremonies of the seasonal calendar
The Mexica pantheon
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.