Everyday Life in the Aztec World

This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield.

List of contents

Part I. Lives: 1. The Emperor; 2. The priest; 3. The featherworker; 4. The merchant; 5. The farmer; 6. The slave; Part II. Intersecting Lives: 7. A child is born; 8. Marketday in Tlatelolco; 9. Judgement day; 10. A battle far afield; Epilogue; Glossary; References; Index.

About the author

Frances Berdan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino.  She is the author or co-author of fourteen books on aspects of Aztec culture, most recently Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Cambridge, 2014). Her 4-volume co-authored The Codex Mendoza (1992) won the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1992.Michael E. Smith is Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Director of the ASU Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, he is the author of twelve books, including At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life (2016), which won the Best Popular Book award from the Society of American Archaeology in 2017.

Summary

The book will appeal to any reader interested in understanding how lives are lived in other cultures. Its focus on Aztec daily life, and the diversity of 'lives' in that culture, from emperor to slave, offers the reader an appreciation of the richness of this ancient civilization.

Product details

• Authors: Frances Berdan, Frances (California State University Berdan, Frances F. (California State University Berdan, Berdan Frances F., Michael E. Smith, Michael E. (Arizona State University) Smith, Smith Michael E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780521736220
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73622-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, History of the Americas, Prehistoric archaeology, Aztec Empire / Aztec civilisation