The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

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Book
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English
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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xxix, 748 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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    Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
    Summary note
    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. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook articles are dividedinto seven parts. Part I, Archaeology of the Aztecs, introduces the Aztecs, as well as Aztec studies today, including the recent practice of archaeology, ethnohistory, museum studies, and conservation. The articles in Part II, Historical Change, provide a long-term view of the Aztecs starting with importantpredecessors, the development of Aztec city-states and imperialism, and ending with a discussion of the encounter of the Aztec and Spanish empires. Articles also discuss Aztec notions of history, writing, and time. Part III, Landscapes and Places, describes the Aztec world in terms of its geography, ecology, and demography at varying scales from households to cities. Part IV, Economic and Social Relations in the Aztec Empire, discusses the ethnic complexity of the Aztec world and social and economic relations that have been a major focus of archaeology. Articles in Part V, Aztec Provinces, Friends, and Foes, focuses on the Aztec's dynamic relations with distant provinces, and empires and groups that resisted conquest, and even allied with the Spanish to overthrow the Aztec king. This is followed by Part VI, Ritual, Belief, and Religion, which examines the differentbeliefs and rituals that formed Aztec religion and their worldview, as well as the material culture of religious practice. The final section of the volume, Aztecs after the Conquest, carries the Aztecs through the post-conquest period, an increasingly important area of archaeological work, andconsiders the place of the Aztecs in the modern world. -- Publisher description.
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    Series statement from book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Deborah L. Nichols
    • 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
    • Historical change. Comments on cultural continuities between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas, Robert H. Cobean ; Aztec settlement history / L.J. Gorenflo, 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, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza ; Nahua thought and the conquest / Michel R. Oudijk, Maria Castañeda de la Paz
    • Landscapes and places. Aztec agricultural production in a historical ecological perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia, Diana Martínez Yrizar ; Population history in precolumbian and colonial times / Lourdes Márquez Morfín, 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
    • Economic and social relations in the Aztec empire. Aztec agricultural strategies: intensification, landesque capital, and the socio-politics of production / Christopher T. Morehart ; The Structure of Aztec commerce: markets and merchants / Kenneth Hirth, Deborah L. Nichols
    • Aztec Manufacturing. Aztec use of lake resources in the basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser ; Aztec metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler ; Aztec obsidian industries / Alejandro Pastrana, David M. Carballo ; Aztec lapidaries / Cynthia L. Otis Charlton, 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, Sharisse McCafferty
    • 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, Frederic Hicks
    • 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, Gabriella Uruñuela ; The Independent Republic of Tlaxcallan / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza ; The Tarascan (purépecha) empire / Anna S. Cohen, Christopher T. Fisher ; Aztec empire in comparative perspective / R. Alan Covey, Amanda S. Aland
    • Ritual, belief, and religion. Humans and gods in the Mexica universe / Guilhem Olivier ; Aztec art, time, and cosmovisión / William L. Barnes ; The Aztec ritual landscape / León García Garagarza ; State ritual and religion in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan / Alfredo López Austin, Leonardo López Luján ; Aztec domestic ritual / Lisa Overholtzer
    • Aztecs after the conquest. Post-conquest rural Aztec archaeology / Patricia Fournier G., 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.
    ISBN
    • 9780199341962
    • 0199341966
    • 9780190634179
    • 0190634170
    LCCN
    2016010926
    OCLC
    965519117
    Other standard number
    • 40026642311
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