Everyday life in the Aztec world
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Everyday life in the Aztec world
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical refrences (p. 239-246) and index
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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.
Table 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.
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