Details

Subject(s)

• Aztecs [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Sessions, Scott [Browse]

Series

• Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series. [More in this series]
• The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series, 1080-4749

Summary note

Examine the fascinating and often controversial details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study written from the perspective of the history of religions. The Aztec people come to life for students, teachers, and interested readers through the exploration of the ceremonial character of their social and symbolic imagination. Insights into the communities they created, the games they played, the education they received, the foods they harvested, and the songs they sang, as well as the sacrificial rituals they performed, enable the reader to gain a better understandi

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Preface; Chronology of Central Mexico; 1. Cemanahuac: The Land Surrounded by Water; 2. The World View of Balance: The Cosmic Tree and the Four Quarters; 3. Mountains of Water: Tenochtitlan and Aztec Communities; 4. Education and the Aztec Life Cycle: From Birth to Death and Beyond; 5. The Social Pyramid: Maintaining Your Place and the World; 6. Aztec Aesthetics: Flowers and Songs; 7. Where the Jaguars Roar: Aztec Human Sacrifice as Debt Payment; 8. The Two Tongues: The Aztecs Encounter the Europeans; 9. The Long Event of Aztec Culture; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index

Other title(s)

Aztecs

ISBN

• 979-82-16-96406-3
• 1-282-33934-6
• 9786612339349
• 1-57356-660-8

LCCN

97039721

OCLC

• 85526910
• 37552549

Doi

• 10.5040/9798216964063

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