Facts On File, Inc. N.Y., 2005. — 464 p.
ISBN: 0816056730
Since its violent dissolution in 1521, the Aztec Empire of Mexico has continually intrigued us. Recent discoveries resulting from the excavation of the Templo Mayor in the heart of Mexico City have taught us even more about this fascinating culture. The increasing recognition that the achievements of Mesoamerican...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 296 p. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 296 p. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 296 p. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 296 p. Tezcatlipoca: Trickster and Supreme Deity brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on “the lord of the smoking mirror,” one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 304 p. Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion -...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 232 p. — (Lost Civilizations). In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as "stone age", their achievements were...
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. — 112 p. — (Indians of North America). — ISBN: 1-55546-692-3. The Aztecs' civilization dates from 1325, when Tenochtitlan was founded on an island in Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The founders, who had come from the north, forged alliances with powerful neighbors. They linked their island city by causeways to the mainland and by...
Reaktion Books, 2021. — 232 p. — (Lost Civilizations). In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her net wide, covering topics as diverse as ethnicity, empire-building, palace life, etiquette, origin myths, and human sacrifice. While the Aztecs are often described as "stone age", their achievements were...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 288 p. In Everyday Life in the Aztec World , Frances Berdan and Michael E. 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...
University of Arizona Press, 1998. — 238 p. One of the great documents of colonial Mexico, the Codex Chimalpopoca chronicles the rise of Aztec civilization and preserves the mythology on which it was based. Its two complementary texts, Annals of Cuauhtitlan and Legend of the Suns, record the pre-Cortésian history of the Valley of Mexico together with firsthand versions of that...
University of Texas Press, 2007 - 338 p. In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized...
Drawings by Eva Wilson. — New York: Dorset Press, 1968. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0-88029-143-5. In 1519 Hernando Cortes and the Spanish army landed on the east coast of Mexico. From that moment the Aztecs became a part of European history. This book is an attempt to reconstruct Mexican life on the eve of the Conquest, using both archaeological evidence and early documentary sources. It...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. — 208 p. Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica. After a distinguished education and introduction into the life of the empire of New Spain in Mexico, Ixtlilxochitl was employed by the...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 372 p. This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire. Although many native sources, often in translations with scholarly annotations. became available in the...
University of Texas Press, 1983. — 284 p. The ancient Aztecs dwelt at the center of a dazzling and complex cosmos. From this position they were acutely receptive to the demands of their gods. The Fifth Sun represents a dramatic overview of the Aztec conception of the universe and the gods who populated it―Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent; Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror; and...
New York City: Galahad Books, 1980. — 128 p. — (Echoes of the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-88365-430-X. A sense of fate overshadows Mexican history. The strange story of the conflict between the gods Feathered Serpent and Smoking Mirror largely determined the actions of the Aztec people when, in the early sixteenth century, the Spanish invaders brought the era of native rule to an...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 138 p. — (Very Short Introductions). An easy-readable and entertaining introduction to aztec culture by leading aztec scholar. List of illustrations The city of Tenochtitlan: center of the Aztec world Aztec foundations: Aztlan, cities, peoples Aztec expansion through conquest and trade Cosmovision and human sacrifice Women and children: weavers...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2011. — 288 p. Utilizing insights from the discipline known as the history of religions, as well as new discoveries in archaeology, pictorial manuscripts, and ritual practices, Daily Life of the Aztecs, Second Edition weaves together a narrative describing life from the bottom of the Aztec social pyramid to its top. This new and surprising...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2011. — 288 p. Utilizing insights from the discipline known as the history of religions, as well as new discoveries in archaeology, pictorial manuscripts, and ritual practices, Daily Life of the Aztecs, Second Edition weaves together a narrative describing life from the bottom of the Aztec social pyramid to its top. This new and surprising...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. — 304 p.
ISBN: 0313295581
Examine the fascinating and often controversial details of the daily lives of the ancient Aztecs through this innovative study written from the perspective of the history of religions. The Aztec people come to life for students, teachers, and interested readers through the exploration of the ceremonial character of...
Beacon Press, 2000. — 288 p. At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against...
Revised Edition — University Press of Colorado, 2001. — 286 p. Davíd Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. "Like J. Eric Thompson, Carrasco has applied...
Nowtilus, 2009. — 304 p. La Breve Historia de los Aztecas es un recorrido por la cultura, la sociedad y la historia de esta cultura precolombina. Sus miticos origenes en Aztlan, la fundacion de Tenochtitlan, la historia de sus dioses, sus templos, sus costumbres... Conoceremos de cerca el pacto de Izcoalt, el gobierno de Moctezuma, el desarrollo y la expansion de sus...
Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 2000. — 48 p. — (History Beneath Your Feet). — ISBN: 0-8172-5753-5. All over the world, history is literally lying beneath your feet. Modern archaeologists are scientific detectives, searching for the buried or hidden clues to ancient civilizations and then piecing together the evidence to reveal how people lived hundreds or...
Reissue edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 574 p. Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication of...
Reissue edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 574 p. Inga Clendinnen creates a vivid and dramatic picture of life in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, once the nerve centre of the Aztec tribute empire. She explores the worlds of Aztec women, of priests and of warriors, in an extraordinary recreation of everyday life in the city. Contrasting the beauty and sophistication...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 224 p. How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 511 p. First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a predecessor that arose around 400 BCE,...
Routledge, 2004. — 648 p. Something more than an historical document of the first importance...his narrative is so readable that one's interest and admiration are equally divided between the stupendous events he records and the charming revelations of his own character. Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of...
Dover Publications, 1993. — 140 p. Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec...
University Press of Colorado, 2009. — 229 p. A well-written and amply supported specialized book promises to interest archaeologists, art historians, ethnographers, and researchers of Mesoamerican culture in general. It offers a reasonable survey of bibliographic sources available in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl. Perhaps, even more importantly, it offers a creative new...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 380 p. From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history - the first...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 380 p. From the migration of the Aztecs to the rise of the empire and its eventual demise, this book covers Aztec history in full, analyzing conceptions of time, religion, and more through codices to offer an inside look at daily life. This book focuses on two main areas: Aztec history and Aztec culture. Early chapters deal with Aztec history - the first...
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1984. — xiv + 322 p. — ISBN: 0-7167-1584-8. Traces the history of the Aztecs, describes their government, religion, and culture, and recounts their conquest by the Spanish Author's Note. Nahuatl Pronunciation. Discovering Aztec Civilization. Prologue. The Rise of the Aztec State. Tolteca and Chichimeca. The Rise of the Mexica. The Imperial...
Translated from the French by Paul G. Bahn. — Harry N. Abrams, 1992. — 192 p. — (Discoveries). — ISBN: 0-8109-2821-3. The gruesome Aztec practice of mass human sacrifice horrified Cortés when he entered Tenochticlán in 1519. Yet these bloodthirsty warriors also created a refined socety, monumental architecture, powerful sculpture, magnificently illustrated codices, fine...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 424 p. In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical superiority, faced logistical problems presented by the terrain, and competed with agriculture for manpower, the Aztecs relied as much on threats and the image of power as on military might to...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. — 424 p. In exploring the pattern and methods of Aztec expansion, Ross Hassig focuses on political and economic factors. Because they lacked numerical superiority, faced logistical problems presented by the terrain, and competed with agriculture for manpower, the Aztecs relied as much on threats and the image of power as on military might to...
University of New Mexico Press, 2016. — 202 p. This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest. The author surveys what it means to be polygynous by comparing the practice in other cultures, past and present, and he uses its demographic consequences to flesh...
University of Texas Press, 2001. — 256 p. Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 260 p. In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 404 p. This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the book are threefold. The first is to construct an in-depth understanding of the economic organization of precolumbian Aztec society and how it developed in the way that it did. The second is to...
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, 1994. — 478 p. — ISBN-10 0942041151. The seventeen papers in this collection deal with various aspects of the relationship between economics and the political units which constituted the Aztec state and its main competitor the Tarascan empire. Until recently Aztec studies were dominated by two rather narrow foci, a preoccupation with the...
Rutgers University Press, 1972. — 728 p. The great inquiry into the nature of Aztec civilization began at the very moment of its destruction in the name of the Spanish Crown and Church. The overwhelming discovery of a vast, luxurious overseas empire offering fresh evidence of the enormous diversity of customs and opinions among the nations of the earth expanded the imaginative...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 398 p. Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. Appreciating the vast number of sources available but also their limitations,...
Brill, 2019. — 456 p. — (Numen Book Series 161). In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual,...
México: FCE, 1980. — 466 p. Toltecayotl, traducido a la letra, significa toltequidad: esencia y conjunto de creaciones de los toltecas. Pero cabe desentrañar mejor la riqueza de sus connotaciones. De sentido abstracto y también colectivo es este vocablo derivado de toltéca-tl. Los antiguos mexicanos lo empleaban para abarcar lo que consideraban herencia suya, semilla de...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. — 204 p. — (Expanded and Updated Edition) For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. — 204 p. — (Expanded and Updated Edition) For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told in the words of the Spanish victors. Miguel León-Portilla has long been at the forefront of expanding that history to include the voices of indigenous peoples. In this new and updated edition of his classic...
Bantam Dell, 2008. — 838 p. In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 264 p. The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl . Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now. The...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 264 p. The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl . Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now. The...
Lancaster: New Era Print. Co, 1911. — 496 p. Reprinted from the American anthropologist (n.s.), vol. XII, no. 4, October-December, 1910. The Aztec Calendar Stone, known more properly as the Aztec Sun Stone, is a basalt sculpture with carvings related to the sun god Tonatiuh... Sun Stone or Aztec Calendar Stone, found in Tenochtitlan in 1789, Mexico, Azteca civilization, 15th...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 512 р. In Aztec Philosophy , James Maffie reveals a highly sophisticated and systematic Aztec philosophy worthy of consideration alongside European philosophies of their time. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 512 р. — ISBN10: 1607322226; ISBN13: 978-1607322221. In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie reveals a highly sophisticated and systematic Aztec philosophy worthy of consideration alongside European philosophies of their time. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly...
Yale University, 2008. — 242 p. This fascinating, richly illustrated book explores basic Precolumbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses on the Central Mexican Aztecs - called the Mexica - who believed in multiple souls that animated the body, gave humans their shared and individual characteristics, and survived the body after death. Drawing...
University of Texas Press, 2013. — 224 p. The Codex Borgia , a masterpiece that predates the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, records almanacs used in divination and astronomy. Within its beautifully painted screenfold pages is a section (pages 29-46) that shows a sequence of enigmatic pictures that have been the subject of debate for more than a century. Bringing insights...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 156 p. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 156 p. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 156 p. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed...
University of Texas Press, 2015. - 256 p. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which...
University of Arizona Press, 2017. — 320 p. With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 784 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs , the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world....
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 784 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs , the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world....
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 528 p. This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Attributes of rank carried profound symbolic meaning, encoding...
Palgrave, 2008. - 242 p. Living with Death. Birth and Blood. Growing Up. Tying the Knot. Marriage and Partnership. Outside the Norm. Aging and Mortality.
Brepols, 2023. — 780 p. — (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses 200). La prêtrise aztèque constitue une thématique de recherche à la fois inédite et d’une grande richesse. Quelles étaient les caractéristiques de la fonction sacerdotale au Mexique ancien ? Qui étaient les hommes et les femmes qui, journellement comme en des circonstances plus...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 304 p. Arriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún not only labored to supplant native religion with Christianity, he also gathered voluminous information on virtually every aspect of Aztec (Nahua) life in contact-period Mexico. His pioneering ethnographic work...
University of Texas Press, 2018. — 208 p. During the period of Aztec expansion and empire (ca. 1325–1525), scribes of high social standing used a pictographic writing system to paint hundreds of manuscripts detailing myriad aspects of life, including historical, calendric, and religious information. Following the Spanish conquest, native and mestizo tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) of...
Indiana University Press, 1998. — 336 p. This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what...
University Press of Florida, 2012. - 208 p.
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire before the Spanish conquest, rivaled any other great city of its time. In Europe, only Paris, Venice, and Constantinople were larger. Cradled in the Valley of Mexico, the city is unique among New World capitals in that it was well described and chronicled by the conquistadors who subsequently...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 264 p. The Mexica (Aztecs) used a solar calendar made up of eighteen months, with each month dedicated to a specific god in their pantheon and celebrated with a different set of rituals. Panquetzaliztli, the fifteenth month, dedicated to the national god Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird on the Left), was significant for its proximity to the...
Routledge, 2016. — 159 p.
"At Home with the Aztecs" provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and prosperous communities. Michael...
Wiley Blackwell, 2011. – 416 p. - 3rd edition ISBN: 1405194979 The Aztecs brings to life one of the best-known indigenous civilizations of the Americas in a vivid, comprehensive account of the ancient Aztecs. A thorough examination of Aztec origins and civilization including religion, science, and thought Incorporates the latest archaeological excavations and research into...
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1996. — 361 p. — (The peoples of America). — ISBN: 1-55786-496-9. This book is a vivid and comprehensive account of the Aztecs, the best- known people of pre-Columbian America. It examines their origins, civilization, and the distinctive realms of their religion, science and thought. It describes the conquest of their empire by the Spanish, and...
Routledge, 2016. — 158 p. "At Home with the Aztecs" provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and prosperous communities. Michael...
Routledge, 2016. — 158 p. "At Home with the Aztecs" provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and prosperous communities. Michael...
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. — (Que Sais-Je?) Les Aztèques dominaient avec éclat la plus grande partie du Mexique quand les conquérants espagnols y pénétrèrent en 1519. Leur langue, leur religion s'étaient imposées, de l'Atlantique au Pacifique et des steppes du nord au Guatemala, sur d'immenses étendues. Le nom de leur souverain Motecuhzoma était vénéré ou...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story - and the story of what happened afterwards - has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story - and the story of what happened afterwards - has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who...
Thames & Hudson, 2009. — 256 p. Today the Aztecs seem a remote, alien people. Warlike and bloodthirsty, they are best known as the practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet their creative achievements are impressive: within the space of a hundred years they established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice...
3rd Edition. — Thames & Hudson, 2009. — 256 p. From their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico. This fully revised and reorganized third edition of Richard Townsend’s masterly study presents an expanded view of their history and cultural achievement and includes colour...
Potomac Books, 2005. — 145 p. Places Aztec civilization and history in the context of world history Montezuma (ca. 1466–1520), who had been educated as a priest and had served well as a military commander, ascended to the Aztec throne in about 1502 on the basis of his military record and reputation for piety. As Peter G. Tsouras demonstrates, almost immediately Montezuma...
ABC-Clio, 2005. — 358 p.
A wealth of new archaeological findings and interpretations has sparked a richer understanding of the Aztecs, dispelling many myths. The Aztecs: New Perspectives looks at evidence from ancient, colonial, and modern times to present a contemporary, well-rounded portrait of this Mesoamerican culture. Like no other volume, it examines daily Aztec life both...
Translation of: Vortrag über den mexicanischen Calender-Stein, gehalten von. Prof. Ph. Valentini, am 30. April 1878, in New York, U.S.A., vor dem Deutsch ges. wissenschaftlichen Verein. — 1890. — 58 p. With engraving of the stone.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1916. — p. 298-398. The following publications dealing with archaeological and ethnological subjects issued under the direction of the Department of Anthropology are sent in exchange for the publications of anthropological departments and museums, and for Journals devoted to general anthropology or to archaeology and ethnology.
Basic Books, 1996. — 360 p. This book is the story of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and most specifically, Cortes' influence on its conduct and consequences. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was one of the most significant events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The invasion began in February, 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521,...
Научное издание. — М.: Восточная литература, 1998. — 432 с.: ил., схемы. — ISBN: 5-02-017989-2. В книге впервые в отечественной историографии всесторонне обрисована одна из трех великих древних цивилизаций Америки. Основой работы послужил огромный фактический материал, использование которого превращает ее в компендиум знаний об ацтеках. Ацтеки в веках: основные этапы...
Научное издание. — М.: Восточная литература, 1998. — 432 с.: ил., схемы. — ISBN: 5-02-017989-2. В книге впервые в отечественной историографии всесторонне обрисована одна из трех великих древних цивилизаций Америки. Основой работы послужил огромный фактический материал, использование которого превращает ее в компендиум знаний об ацтеках. Ацтеки в веках: основные этапы...
М.: Издательская фирма «Восточная литература» РАН, 1998. — 432 с.: ил., схемы. В книге впервые в отечественной историографии всесторонне обрисована одна из трех великих древних цивилизаций Америки. Основой работы послужил огромный фактический материал, использование которого превращает ее в компендиум знаний об ацтеках. Предисловие Ацтеки в веках: основные этапы политической...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2005. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-1740-X.
Автор касается всех сторон жизни ацтеков – религии и ритуалов, архитектуры и письменности, ремесла и быта. Вы познакомитесь с характерными особенностями и устройством их огромной империи. Узнаете, как зарождалась и развивалась могущественная цивилизация ацтеков вплоть до вторжения испанцев в XVI веке.
Перевод с английского М.И. Баранович под редакцией В.В. Струве. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. – 311 с. Джордж Клапп Вайян (1901—1945), американский антрополог и археолог, уже с 1919 г. принимал участие в раскопках и вплоть до 1936 г. ежегодно участвовал в археологических экспедициях в Мексике, сначала в качестве сотрудника, а потом и руководителя. Вайяну...
Перевод с английского М.И. Баранович под редакцией В.В. Струве. — М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1948. – 311 с. Джордж Клапп Вайян (1901—1945), американский антрополог и археолог, уже с 1919 г. принимал участие в раскопках и вплоть до 1936 г. ежегодно участвовал в археологических экспедициях в Мексике, сначала в качестве сотрудника, а потом и руководителя. Вайяну...
Ростов-на-Дону: «Феникс», 1998 — 480 с. — (След в истории). ISBN 5-222-00446-5. Книга известного французского писателя Мишеля Гролиша представляет очерк истории ацтеков к моменту испанского завоевания на материале индейских и испанских документальных источников. Особое внимание автор уделяет личности последнего ацтекского вождя Монтесумы II, пытаясь выяснить реальные события,...
Ростов-на-Дону: «Феникс», 1998 — 480 с. — (След в истории). ISBN 5-222-00446-5. Книга известного французского писателя Мишеля Гролиша представляет очерк истории ацтеков к моменту испанского завоевания на материале индейских и испанских документальных источников. Особое внимание автор уделяет личности последнего ацтекского вождя Монтесумы II, пытаясь выяснить реальные события,...
Перевод: Н. М. Кукиев - Ростов-на-Дону: «Феникс», 1998 - 480 с., ил. - (Серия: След в истории) - ISBN: 5-222-00446-5. Книга известного французского писателя Мишеля Гролиша представляет очерк истории ацтеков к моменту испанского завоевания на материале индейских и испанских документальных источников. Особое внимание автор уделяет личности последнего ацтекского вождя Монтесумы...
Перевод: Н. М. Кукиев - Ростов-на-Дону: «Феникс», 1998 - 480 с. - (Серия: След в истории) - ISBN: 5-222-00446-5. Книга известного французского писателя Мишеля Гролиша представляет очерк истории ацтеков к моменту испанского завоевания на материале индейских и испанских документальных источников. Особое внимание автор уделяет личности последнего ацтекского вождя Монтесумы II,...
Монография. — СПб.: МАЭ (Кунсткамера) РАН, 2006. — 320 с.: ил. — (Алгебра родства: Родство. Системы родства. Системы терминов родства. Выпуск 10). — ISBN 5-88431-144-3. Монография представляет собой первое в американистике исследование родства, гендера и возраста как принципов социальной стратификации и распределения функций в обществе ацтеков (науа) XV-XVII вв. Анализируется...
Л.: Государственное издательство детской литературы Министерства Просвещения РСФСР, 1956.-264 с.
Научно-художественный очерк "Падение Теночтитлана", написанный американистом Р.В.Кинжаловым и литератором А.М.Беловым, является работой широкого охвата. В ней излагается история открытия и захвата Мексики, приводятся основные факты древней истории ацтекской народности, показываются...
Л.: Государственное издательство детской литературы Министерства Просвещения РСФСР, 1956. — 264 с. Научно-художественный очерк "Падение Теночтитлана", написанный американистом Р.В. Кинжаловым и литератором А.М. Беловым, является работой широкого охвата. В ней излагается история открытия и захвата Мексики, приводятся основные факты древней истории ацтекской народности,...
Под ред. А. Скромницкого и В. Талаха. — Киев, 2011. Кодекс Мендоса или Кодекс Мендосиано (исп. Códice Mendoza), созданный анонимным автором приблизительно в 1547 году в Мехико, один из лучших по сохранности среди ацтекских рукописных кодексов. Это второй ацтекский кодекс, переведённый на русский язык специалистами по доколумбовым цивилизациям В. Талахом и А. Скромницким. Книга...
Киев: Издатель Куприенко С. А., 2014. — 382 с. : ил. — ISBN 978-617-7085-11-8 Книга содержит русские переводы ранних записей мифов и легенд индейцев Центральной Мексики: «Легенды о Солнцах» 1556 г., отрывков из «Летописи Куаутитлана» 1563 г., «Всеобщей истории о событиях в Новой Испании» Б. де Саагуна (1547–75), «Сообщений» Ф. де Альвы Иштлильшочитля (ок. 1609 г.), «Индейской...
М.: Издательство Иностранной Литературы, 1961. — 386 с. Введение. Существование философского знания у нагуа — исторический факт. Космологические идеи нагуа. Метафизические и теологические идеи нагуа. Идеи нагуа о человеке. Нагуа как создатель определенного образа жизни. Заключение. Цитированные тексты в нагуатлском оригинале. Краткий словарь философских терминов нагуа. Комментарии.
Кодекс создан в 1562 или 1563 году в Мехико и написанный на европейской бумаге, один из лучших по сохранности среди ацтекских рукописных кодексов. Его латинизированное название происходит от имени Шарля-Мориса Летелье, реймского епископа, владевшего рукописью в конце XVII века. Содержимое кодекса принадлежит перу нескольких авторов, одним из которых был доминиканский монах фрай...
М.: Эксмо, 2009. — 176 с. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-32129-2. Книга американских авторов Джона Пола (известный ученый-археолог, занимающийся изучением древних индейских цивилизаций) и Чарльза М. Робинсона "Ацтеки и конкистадоры: Гибель великой цивилизации" посвящена истории завоевания Мексики испанцами в первой четверти XVI века. Главным ее содержанием...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2003. — 287 с. — (Загадки древних цивилизаций). К XVI веку на территории современной Мексики ацтеки создали густонаселенную империю со столицей в Теночтитлане. До покорения испанскими конкистадорами самобытная цивилизация Месоамерики достигла значительных успехов в развитии земледелия и культуры. В книге описываются природные условия, поселения, религия,...
Под ред. В. Талаха и А. Скромницкого. — К.: Blok.NOT, 2011. — 202 с.
Читателю предлагается впервые переведенный на русский язык интересный памятник XVI века – "Кодекс Мальябекки", представляющий собой прокомментированные испанским автором индейские рисунки, восходящие, по крайней мере частично, к доиспанским пиктографическим текстам. Кодекс содержит ценные сведения по религии и...
М.: Издательские решения, 2018. — 329 с. В настоящей книге сайт «Мир индейцев» предлагает читателям переводы источников, освещающих историю и культуру доколумбовой Центральной Мексики. Выбранные для публикации тексты касаются народа, который к моменту появления европейцев в политическом отношении доминировал в Месоамерике – мешиков, более известных как ацтеки. Правда,...
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