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by Inga Clendinnen (Author) "When early in November of 1519 Cortes and his Spaniards struggled through a snowy pass in the pineclad mountains, past the elegant cones of the..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 414 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (24 Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521485851
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521485852
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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‘Inga Clendinnen’s vivid study Aztecs begins and ends with the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, the glistening lake city which rose like a dream to the Spaniards who first saw it … It takes us deep into the heart of Mexican or Aztec society.’ The Times Literary Supplement


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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. ‘Inga Clendinnen’s vivid study Aztecs begins and ends with the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, the glistening lake city which rose like a dream to the Spaniards who first saw it … It takes us deep into the heart of Mexican or Aztec society.’ The Times Literary Supplement ‘… 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, as rich in its reconstruction of social details as in its lucid analyses of the ‘interior architecture’ of the Aztec world.’ The Times Higher Education Supplement
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When early in November of 1519 Cortes and his Spaniards struggled through a snowy pass in the pineclad mountains, past the elegant cones of the twin volcanoes Popocatepetl, 'Smoking Mountain', and Iztaccihuatl, 'White Woman', and made their descent into the wide shallow bowl of the Valley of Mexico, they entered a landscape unlike any they had encountered in the New World. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars Stage by Stage Guide to a Lost Culture, 16 Aug 2002
One of the best qualities of this book is a universal appeal. I read it for the first time before I had really begun to take an interest in the Mexica civilisation, and then for a second time perhaps a year after that, and I found it an interesting and invaluable source of information on both occasions.

The structure of the book into chapters that deal with a particular occupation (providing that you would consider 'victim' an occupation) allows for the reader to examine each role that the book deals with in context, although as a separate subject. The actual content of each chapter is not broken up with illustrations - although sprinkled rather liberally with footnotes - but the work is extremely readable and has a fluent and coherent style.

The rituals are described with both a statistical, scientific method and a more creative style that attempts to reconstruct the scene by empathising with the participants.

This book is one of the best collected sources of information on the subject, and despite the wide variety of topics, one of the most detailed. It is a worthwhile purchase for anyone with curiosity in the subject.

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