Aztecs: An Interpretation

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 of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.

Author: Inga Clendinnen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/28/2014
Series: Canto Classics
Pages: 574
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781107693562