Mexico-Tenochtitlan : dynamism at the center of the world /
"Tenochtitlan enjoyed a meteoric rise to power beginning in the thirteenth century, when its leaders transformed it into the political, economic, and spiritual center of the Mexica. Even after its rulership was decapitated following the Spanish invasion of 1519-1521, the city (rechristened Mexi...
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Washington, D. C. :
Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University,
[2025]
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Barbara E. Mundy, Leonardo López Luján, and Elizabeth Hill Boone
- The Proyecto Templo Mayor and the state of the art of archeology in the historic center of Mexico City / Leonardo López Luján
- The Huei Tzompantli of Tenochtitlan and the agenda of the Mexica State / Lorena Vázquez Vallin and Raúl Barrera Rodríguez
- Violence on display: human and animal sacrifice / Ximena Chávez Balderas
- Hands (and hearts) on the job: new visions from the master plan of Tenochtitlan / Michelle De Anda Rogel, Saburo Sugiyama, and Leonardo López Luján
- Imperial policies in sumptuary object production: shell objects in Tenochca offerings / Adrián Velázquez Castro
- Iridescent feathers with shining gold: approaching meaning and ritual performance through materiality, technology, and technoeconomics / Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno Guzmán
- Tlazohtli, Mahuiztic: aesthetic value in Nahua luxury / Allison Caplan
- The indigenous side of Spanish colonial display / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
- The performance of maps in sixteenth-century Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Barbara E. Mundy
- The object in and out of time: sculptural reuse in Mexico City / Sara Ryu
- The Coyolxauhqui and the rise in Aztec studies: advances in research on the Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, and the Aztec empire / Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Tenochtitlan and Constantinople: crafting a ritual center / Robert G. Ousterhout.