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Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology This it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, as city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic astronomy, through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare. Davíd Carrasco looks regeneration Spanish accounts that have colored much of the Western narrative to let Aztec voices beyond about their origin stories, the cosmic significance of their capital city, their methods of child speak THE AZTECS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION rearing, and the contributions women made to daily life and the empire.
Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly The A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on religious. eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered the Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, them--imprisoning question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable without of Aztec life available in any language."--The Observer. portrayal DAILY LIFE OF THE AZTECS
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