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This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history religious studies and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture astronomy city planning poetry and philosophy who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare David Carrasco looks beyond Spanish accou This book delivers exactly what its title promises a brief introduction on Aztec or rather Mexica history and culture The information here is just enough to whet one s appetite I will definitely lo Toad of Toad Hall of history religious studies and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities Spelling Strategies & Secrets: The essential how to spell guide of Aztec life Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture astronomy city planning poetry and philosophy who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust Kingdom of Ash Throne of Glass 7 of the ceremonial knife and through warfare David Carrasco looks beyond Spanish accou This book delivers exactly what its title promises a brief introduction Imagine Me on Aztec Beyond Temptation or rather Mexica history and culture The information here is just enough to whet Past Due Debt Collection one s appetite I will definitely lo
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This book delivers exactly what its title promises a brief introduction on Aztec or rather Mexica history and culture The information here is just enough to whet one’s appetite I will definitely look for books on this subject
I do dearly love these little gems from Oxford University Press In this case I happen to admire the author too having taken one of his classes at Harvard in 2015 Davíd Carrasco is a gifted teacher a warm human being and of course a great expert in this subject I read this book as part of a tear I'm on to read histories of Mexico and particularly of the Mexican American border As expected I learned some things from this slim volume For one
If you always carry a book on you it's surprising how much time you can find to read throughout the day On public transit in ueues or while waiting for friends to arrive you can get through a dozen pages or Oxford's Very Short Introductions are great for this purpose because they're small enough to fit in my pocket and short enough to be digested in bite sized chunksSome interesting facts from The Aztecs that I think will stick with me Eng
This was a bit of a curate's egg The political history part was very good albeit the part on Cortes is caught up in some contradictions Surprisingly given the author's PhD was on mesoamerican religion the section on religion and the cosmovis
It's slightly irritating that introductions about the Aztecs always end up as historical accounts of the Spanish invasion and take over of Mexico Unfortunately this is an inevitable result of the fact that we only know any
There are a lot of details for a short introduction maybe too many but overall it's uite readable and interesting I read this partly out of personal interest and partly because I've started teaching a short section on Aztec philosophy in my World Philosophy course and thought I could use a bit historical background It was
Ethusiastic short history of the Aztecs Lots of uotes from primary sources Highly readable although the names can get confusing if you're unfamiliar with Aztec history Still if you have to start getting familiar somewhere this seems like a good place to start I enjoyed it
Interesting insight into the religion and the history but I would have liked to have had on everyday life Organization is a little di
Pretty balanced viewpoint Gives uick summary of Aztec history Discusses the Aztecs as successors of a broader urban civilization which emerged in Mesoamerica According to Paul Kirchhoff geographically it comprised of the southern two thirds of Mexico plus Guatemala Belize El Salvador and parts of Honduras Nicaragua and Costa Rica Begins with