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Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub Date: 4/28/2004 Binding: Paperback Pages: 212. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030557361ISBN:0030557364
Description: VG. Not Latest Edition. Minor edge wear. "Complimentary Copy" stamp on front cover. Pages clean, binding solid.; Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology; 0.35 x 9.23 x 6.37 Inches; 195 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030557361ISBN:0030557364
Description: VG. Not Latest Edition. Minor edge wear. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover. "Complimentary Copy" stamp on front cover. Pages clean, binding solid.; Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology; 0.35 x 9.23 x 6.37 Inches; 195 pages. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Holt, Reinhart and Winston
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030557361ISBN:0030557364
Description: Nov1606. Fine. No Jacket. Fine. No Jacket Fine. No DJ Issued Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Small crease to rear cover upper left corner. Trade paperback (US). 195 p. Nov1606; Anthropology; Aztecs; General; History; Latin America; Mexican; Mexico; Non-Fiction; Social Science. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Illustrated Wraps (softcover)
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030557361ISBN:0030557364
Description: Very Good. Tall 8vo. Minor wear to covers else clean tight copy, 195 pp w/glossary, references and additional reading, numerous B&W photos, illustrations, maps and diagrams, "...case study is about the Aztecs of Central Mexico, a people who dominated a vast area of what is now Mexico by the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived in A.D. 1519, but who had humble beginnings as despised nomads. " An ethnographic reconstruction of Aztec culture as it flourished in the period immediately preceding ... read more
Edition: 2ND ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: THOMSON LEARNG
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780534627287ISBN:0534627285
Description: BRAND NEW. 241 x 165 mm. (192 pages) covers the compelling story of a complex, imperial society in central mexico during the 15th and 16th centuries. edition 2nd ed ( ) read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030557361ISBN:0030557364
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"In the early 16th century, savage barbarians from Europe in search of mineral riches came with their horse beasts with a horde of about 500 led by Cortes, and brought the entire empire of hundreds of thousands of primitive, superstitious, depraved cannibals to their knees. In the 100 years that followed, over 90 percent of the native population was exterminated due to war and disease.
The Aztecs were a creative, if not refined, bunch. Once, a daughter of a neighboring fiefdom was married off to an Aztec aristocrat to forge an alliance. Then, unprovoked, she was skinned and the father was invited to a banquet with the Aztec leaders. During the festivities, the priest comes out and dances wearing the skin of the daughter before the horrified father.
Perhaps tens of thousands of sacrifices happened every year because the Aztecs felt the gods needed their help to feast on human blood in order to ensure that the universe kept going. (The Spaniards outlawed these practices and many Aztecs then abandoned their religion because to their dismay, the universe kept on going.)
The Aztecs were a brutal militaristic empire hell bent on making all their neighbors into tributary states, which would be brutally suppressed in the event of a revolt, or punished if they failed to pay tribute, and subsequently forced to pay double their tribute. At least they had a sense of humor.
They were sick and twisted, and I was really happy when the Europeans finally came to slaughter them all with their dozen muskets and cannons. I mean, the Spanish were poisoned with religious zealotism also, but at least their brand of religion was fertile for individualism and progressive amelioration, whereas the Aztecs were backward beyond reprieve.
The first ethnography I've ever read. I liked it."
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