The Aztec World
The Aztec World

Author: Field Museum of Natural History

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history, this book covers such contemporary concerns as the environment and agriculture, health and disease, women and social status, and urbanism. It also discusses the effects of European conquests on Aztec culture and society, in addition to offering modern perspectives on their civilization. The text is accompanied by colorful illustrations and photos of artifacts from the best collections in Mexico, including those of the Templo Mayor Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, both in Mexico City, as well as pieces from archaeological sites and virtual reconstructions of lost artwork. The book accompanies an exhibition at The Field Museum.

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.

Moctezuma's Mexico
Moctezuma's Mexico

Author: David Carrasco

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Profiles the history, people, culture, artwork, beliefs, and daily life of Moctezuma's Mexico.

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Handbook to Life in the Aztec World

Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0195330838

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Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Fifth Sun
Fifth Sun

Author: Camilla Townsend

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190673060

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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

The Aztec Economic World
The Aztec Economic World

Author: Kenn Hirth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1107142776

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The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World

Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780806132914

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In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, Miguel León-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of their work are followed by their extant poems in Nahuatl and in English.

The Aztecs
The Aztecs

Author: David Carrasco

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0195379381

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Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.

Aztec Philosophy
Aztec Philosophy

Author: James Maffie

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1607322234

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In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.