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Aztecs: An Interpretation : Canto Classics - Inga Clendinnen
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Aztecs: An Interpretation

Canto Classics

By: Inga Clendinnen

Paperback | 15 May 2014

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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 mannnered violence of their ritual killings.
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'... a fascinating, thought-provoking book. Aztecs offers a gripping account of an alien society and thus enlarges our apprehension of the sheer diversity of human culture.' London Review of Books
'This is an outstanding book ...' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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