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Author Clendinnen, Inga.

Title The cost of courage in Aztec society : essays on Mesoamerican society and culture / Inga Clendinnen.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (v, 216 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
"Tenochitlan, the Aztec city, was the creation of war. The courage and stamina of its young fighting men was indisputable. In the title work of this pathbreaking collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen discusses why warfare was so central to Aztec society and the ways in which the Aztecs understood their relationship to the forces governing the world and the heavens. Aztec rhetoric and Aztec ritual were unified in the endeavor to sustain a social order sufficiently in harmony with the natural order. Subsequent essays examine the survival of Yucatec Maya culture under Spanish conquest, the role of "religion" in sixteenth-century Mexico, and Hernando Cortes and the conquest of Mexico."--Provided by publisher.
Contents The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century Yucatán -- Ways to the sacred: reconstructing 'religion' in sixteenth century Mexico -- Landscape and world view: the survival of Yucatec Maya culture under Spanish conquest -- Breaking the mirror: from the Aztec spring festival to organ transplantation -- Reading Mr. Robinson.
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Subject Conquest of Mexico (Mexico : 1519-1540)
Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies.
Aztecs -- Rites and ceremonies.
Aztecs.
Aztecs -- Warfare -- Social aspects.
Military art and science.
Social aspects.
Aztecs -- Religion.
Aztecs -- Religion.
Violence -- Mexico -- History -- 16th century.
Violence.
Mexico.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Clendinnen, Inga. Cost of courage in Aztec society. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521518116 (DLC) 2009043215 (OCoLC)461323885
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