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xxix, 748 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Part I. Archaeology of the Aztecs -- Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The historical sources: codices and chronicles / Juan José Batalla Rosado -- Museums and the conservation of Mexica cultural heritage / María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi -- Part II. Historical change -- Comments on cultural continuities between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas and Robert H. Cobean -- Aztec settlement history / L. J. Gorenflo and Christopher P. Garraty -- The creation, rise, and decline of Mexica power / Enrique Florescano -- The measure, meaning and transformation of Aztec time and calendars / Anthony F. Aveni -- Aztec pictography and painted histories / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- The languages of the Aztec empire / Jane H. Hill -- Aztec state-making, politics, and empires: the triple alliance / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- Nahua thought and the conquest / Michel R. Oudijk and Maria Castañeda de la Paz -- Part III. Landscapes and places -- Aztec agricultural production in a historical ecological perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia and Diana Martínez Yrizar -- Population history in Precolumbian and colonial times / Lourdes Márquez Morfín and Rebecca Storey -- Aztec urbanism: cities and towns / Michael E. Smith -- Tenochtitlan / José Luis de Rojas -- Aztec palaces and gardens, intertwined evolution / Susan Toby Evans -- Households in the Aztec empire / Kristin De Lucia -- Part IV. Economic and social relations in the Aztec empire -- Aztec agricultural strategies: intensification, landesque capital, and the sociopolitics of production / Christopher T. Morehart -- The structure of Aztec commerce: markets and merchants / Kenneth Hirth and Deborah L. Nichols -- Part IV-A. Aztec manufacturing -- Aztec use of lake resources in the basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser -- Aztec metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler -- Aztec obsidian industries / David M. Carballo and Alejandro Pastrana -- Aztec lapidaries / Cynthia L. Otis Charlton and Alejandro Pastrana -- Pottery and the potter's craft in the Aztec heartland / Leah D. Minc -- Pregnant in the dancing place: myths and methods of textile production and use / Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty -- Part IV-B. Social relations -- Gender and Aztec lifecycles / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- The human body in the Mexica worldview / Alfredo López Austin -- Nahua ethnicity / James M. Taggert -- Inequality and social class in Aztec society / Michael E. Smith and Frederic Hicks -- Part V. Aztec provinces, friends, and foes -- Structure of the triple alliance empire / Frances F. Berdan -- Mexica war: new research perspectives / Marco Antonio Cervera Obregón -- Aztec provinces of the central highlands / Maëlle Sergheraert -- Aztec provinces of the southern highlands / Gerardo Gutiérrez -- Aztec provinces of the gulf lowlands / Marcie L. Venter -- Tututepec: a Mixtec imperial capital in southern Oaxaca / Marc N. Levine -- Cholula in Aztec times / Patricia Plunket and Gabriella Uruñuela -- The independent Republic of Tlaxcallan / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- The tarascan (purépecha) empire / Anna S. Cohen and Christopher T. Fisher -- Aztec empire in comparative perspective / R. Alan Covey and Amanda S. Aland -- Part VI. Ritual, belief, and religion -- Humans and gods in the Mexica universe / Guilhem Olivier -- Aztec art, time, and cosmovisión / William Barnes -- The Aztec ritual landscape / Leon Garcia Garagarza -- State ritual and religion in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan / Alfredo López Austin and Leonardo López Luján -- Aztec domestic ritual / Lisa Overholtzer -- Part VII. Aztecs after the conquest -- Post-conquest rural Aztec archaeology / Patricia Fournier G. and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- A city transformed: from Tenochtitlan to Mexico City in the sixteenth century / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría-- The Aztecs and the Catholic Church / Louise M. Burkhart -- Aztec art after the conquest and in museums abroad / Ray Hernández Durán -- The Aztecs and their descendants in the contemporary world / Alan R. Sandstrom.
edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.
Includes bibliographical references and index.