1991
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
414
Number of Pages
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.
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4.11
Number of Ratings
240
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Author
Inga Clendinnen
Author · 8 books
Inga Clendinnen, AO, FAHA was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic.
