Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth

Author:   Davíd Carrasco ,  Scott Sessions
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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9780313295584


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   28 July 1998
Replaced By:   9780313377440
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Davíd Carrasco ,  Scott Sessions
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.614kg
ISBN:  

9780313295584


ISBN 10:   0313295581
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   28 July 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780313377440
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; Chronology of Central Mexico; Cemanahuac: The Land Surrounded by Water; The World View of Balance: The Cosmic Tree and the Four Quarters; Mountains of Water: Tenochtitlan and Aztec Communities; Education and the Aztec Life Cycle: From Birth to Death and Beyond; The Social Pyramid: Maintaining Your Place and the World; Aztec Aesthetics: Flowers and Songs; Where the Jaguars Roar: Aztec Human Sacrifice as Debt Payment; The two Tongues: The Aztecs Encounter the Europeans; The Long Event of Aztec Culture; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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?Carrasco [and] Sessions...have combined their talents to present this overview of pre-Columbian Aztec culture that reflects the latest scholarship while remaining accessible to lay readers....This excellent book is recommended for public and academic libraries.?-American Reference Books Annual


Carrasco [and] Sessions...have combined their talents to present this overview of pre-Columbian Aztec culture that reflects the latest scholarship while remaining accessible to lay readers....This excellent book is recommended for public and academic libraries. -American Reference Books Annual Carrasco �and� Sessions...have combined their talents to present this overview of pre-Columbian Aztec culture that reflects the latest scholarship while remaining accessible to lay readers....This excellent book is recommended for public and academic libraries. -American Reference Books Annual ?Carrasco [and] Sessions...have combined their talents to present this overview of pre-Columbian Aztec culture that reflects the latest scholarship while remaining accessible to lay readers....This excellent book is recommended for public and academic libraries.?-American Reference Books Annual


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DAVÍD CARRASCO is the Director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Professor of History of Religions at Princeton University. His previous works include Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (1992), Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition (1982 and 1992), To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (1991), and Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers (1990). SCOTT SESSIONS is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He is also administrative assistant and researcher at the Moses Mesoamerican Archive (Princeton University), a researcher for the Afro-American Religion: A Documentary History Project (Amherst College), and development editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. He served as assistant editor for Moctezuma's Mexico: World Visions of the Aztec World (1992) and as a consultant for several documentaries and museum exhibits.

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