Everyday life in the Aztec world /
In Daily Life of the Aztecs, Frances Berdan and Michael 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 mer...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | In Daily Life of the Aztecs, Frances Berdan and Michael 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxx, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521516365 0521516366 9780521736220 0521736226 |