About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 01/29/1993
ISBN-13:9780521446952ISBN:0521446953
Description: Fair. 0521446953 Aztecs: An Interpretation-Used book in acceptable condition. Spine, cover and pages show significant wear. This volume will have some/all of the following: Textual marks; Moisture spots; Foxing; Bent Pages/Covers; Small Tears; Weak Hinges; Yellowing; Highlighting. Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9780521446952 Size: 5.9 x 8.9 x 1 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521400930ISBN:0521400937
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 414 p. Audience: General/trade. Orange cloth over boards with black and silver lettering. Near-mint condition. No signs of wear. No marks inside. Only fault: a few blotches on the outer page edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521400930ISBN:0521400937
Description: Very Good + in Very Good jacket. Book Club Edition Tight spine, clean copy. Red boards, black and silver lettering on spine, edges very lightly rubbed. Text is clean and unmarked. DJ-minor shelfwear, no chips or tears. 398 Pgs. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press [1991], Cambridge [although actually New York]
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521400930ISBN:0521400937
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First [US] edition. 398 pages, illustrated. Fine copy in Fine Dust Wrapper. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521400930ISBN:0521400937
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0521400937. 397 pp. Very good condition book and dustjacket. Full red cloth hardcovers near fine, very clean, minimal wear to extremeties. Occasional pencil underlining, otherwise fine inside: crisp clean and tight. Dustjacket near fine, in mylar cover. Very nice reading/working copy.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ, Cambridge
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521400930ISBN:0521400937
Description: Fine in Fine DJ. The culture & rituals of the Aztecs prior to their fall to the Spaniards in 1521. 398 pp, index, bibliography. Red cloth boards. read more
"One of the surest evocations of pre-Cortes "Americas", ignores basic male rhetoric (applying structures from the west onto this far west/far east), and showcases a society of fluctuating boundaries. female roles are nuanced for the first time in central-american anthropology of this era. Values, sharing, warfare all have alterations from our norms that offer unusual alternates."
"Clendinnen goes out on a limb here, and for that I think we should respect her. She is crossing the lines between anthropology and sociology, fact and fiction. What we don't know about the intimacies of Pre-columbian Mexica culture, Clendinnen attempts to fill in using testimony from Aztec nobles three or four generatons removed from the conquest. IT's as close as we can get, and if factually inaccurate or insecure, it is at the very least important for putting real faces and emotions and experiences to the Mexica people. Aztec is actually incorrect in this title, and she notes it herself. Aztec refers to the political system, not the people, as many of them were involuntarily subscribed to it by forced labor and tribute by the Aztec governement, fyi."
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