Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico
Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico

Author: Alonso de Zurita

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780806126791

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The "Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain" is one of the major contemporary accounts of the economic, political, and social impact of the conquest of Aztec Mexico. Written by Alonso de Zorita, a Spanish judge of high integrity and many years' experience in colonial administration, it provides a detailed description of Aztec life before and after the Conquest. Based on Zorita's stay in Mexico from 1556 to 1566, it reflects the anguish felt by a devoted and humane servant of the Crown, who observed the misery inflicted upon the Indians by enslavement and Spanish-imposed tribute and labor systems In his extensive introduction, Benjamin Keen provides a survey of the rise of Aztec society, conditions under post-Conquest colonial administration, and a biographical essay on Zoritas life and the reception of his work. With a new preface on recent scholarship and issues in Zorita's work, this edition remains the standard translation in English of the "Brief Relation."

Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico; the Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain
Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico; the Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain

Author: Alonso de B 1511 or 12 Zurita

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781014291561

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico; the Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain; 0
Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico; the Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain; 0

Author: Alonso de Approximately 1512 Zurita

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781014539007

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico

Author: Jill Leslie McKeever Furst

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780300072600

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A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.

Everyday Life in the Aztec World
Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Author: Frances F. Berdan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1108894410

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In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.

Conversations with Moctezuma
Conversations with Moctezuma

Author: Dick J. Reavis

Publisher:

Published: 1991-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780688107383

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Author Dick Reavis immersed himself in the life of Mexico for a year. What emerged from this year is a haunting sympathy for the alien culture that is the essense of its past, and a glimpse of its troubled future--a future with inevitable consequences for our own country.