Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Davíd Carrasco is a Mexican-American historian of religions whose work on Aztec cosmology, cities, and ritual has forged new directions in the study of Mesoamerican cultures.
Scott Sessions is managing editor of the African-American Religion Documentary History Project and visiting lecturer in the religion department at Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
These comprehensive works combine accessibility with impeccable research and scholarship. <i>Aztecs</i> has been updated from its first edition (Greenwood, 1998) with a cleaner design and recent research.
School Library Journal
Examine the fascinating details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study of their social history, culture, and continuing influence, written from the perspective of the history of religions.
Utilizing insights from the discipline known as the history of religions, as well as new discoveries in archaeology, pictorial manuscripts, and ritual practices, Daily Life of the Aztecs, Second Edition weaves together a narrative describing life from the bottom of the Aztec social pyramid to its top. This new and surprising interpretation of the Aztecs puts a human face on an ancient people who created beautiful art and architecture, wrote beautiful poetry, and loved their children profoundly, while also making war and human sacrifice fundamental parts of their world.
The book describes the interaction between the material and the imaginative worlds of the Aztecs, offering insights into their communities, games, education, foodways, and arts, as well as the sacrificial rituals they performed. The authors also detail the evolution of the Aztec state and explores the continuity and changes in Aztec symbols, myths, and ritual practices into the present day.
Preface
Chronology of Central Mexico
1. Cemanahuac: The Land Surrounded by Water
2. The Worldview 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
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
What was life really like for ordinary people throughout history? How did they raise their children? What did they do for fun? From sexual mores in ancient Egypt to resistance music in modern Latin America, and from the fashion sense of the Mongols to the importance of film in modern India, the world comes alive in this award-winning series.
· Exploration of everything from religion and food to sickness and sports gives readers a window into all aspects of social history
· Sources such as photos, recipes, sheet music, rules for games, song lyrics, and maps bring the past to life
· A timeline enables readers to visualize the sequence of events and see connections and patterns through history
This series is now entitled The Daily Life Through History series. To view titles published in this series after 2023, please visit: bloomsbury.com /series/daily-life-through-history
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Davíd Carrasco is a Mexican-American historian of religions whose work on Aztec cosmology, cities, and ritual has forged new directions in the study of Mesoamerican cultures.
Scott Sessions is managing editor of the African-American Religion Documentary History Project and visiting lecturer in the religion department at Amherst College, Amherst, MA.