The Aztec World

The Aztec World
Author: Field Museum of Natural History
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Aztec World is an illustrated survey of the Aztecs based on insightful research by a team of international experts from the United States and Mexico. In addition to traditional subjects like cosmology, religion, human sacrifice, and political history, this book covers such contemporary concerns as the environment and agriculture, health and disease, women and social status, and urbanism. It also discusses the effects of European conquests on Aztec culture and society, in addition to offering modern perspectives on their civilization. The text is accompanied by colorful illustrations and photos of artifacts from the best collections in Mexico, including those of the Templo Mayor Museum and the National Museum of Anthropology, both in Mexico City, as well as pieces from archaeological sites and virtual reconstructions of lost artwork. The book accompanies an exhibition at The Field Museum.

Fifth Sun

Fifth Sun
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190673060

Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs

Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433390620

The Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs were three groups of people found living in the ancient Americas. Though they were clearly alike, they were also unique. All three civilizations ended when Spanish explorers moved into the Americas.

Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Everyday Life in the Aztec World
Author: Frances F. Berdan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108894410

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 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.

Aztecs

Aztecs
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Aztecs
ISBN: 9780789439574

A brief history of the Aztec Indians including their way of life, religion, and rulers.

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195330838

Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Aztec

Aztec
Author: Elizabeth Baquedano
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1405345438

DK Eyewitness Aztec is a spectacular and informative guide to the rise and fall of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, who built vast empires and left behind a legacy of mystery and wonder. Incredible colour photographs offer your child a unique "eyewitness" view of these amazing civilisations. Show your child how jewellery was made, and learn what kind of food the Aztecs ate, how the Incas built their homes, and how the Mayan calendar worked. Great for projects or just for fun, make sure your child learns everything they need to know about the Aztecs. Find out more and download amazing clipart images at www.dk.com/clipart.

Aztec Philosophy

Aztec Philosophy
Author: James Maffie
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607322234

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.