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In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre 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.

Aztecs --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Social life and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies.

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The Aztec Economy provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325-1521 AD). It is organized around seven components that recur with other Elements in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of distribution and commercialization, economic development, and future directions. The Aztec world was complex, hierarchical, and multifaceted, and was in a constant state of demographic growth, recoveries from natural disasters, political alignments and realignments, and aggressive military engagements. The economy was likewise complex and dynamic, and characterized by intensive agriculture, exploitation of non-agricultural resources, utilitarian and luxury manufacturing, wide-scale specialization, merchants, markets, commodity monies, and tribute systems.

Aztecs --- Indians of Mexico --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce. --- Commerce --- History --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Nahuas

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"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.

Aztecs --- Violence --- Mayas --- Aztèques --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Warfare --- Social aspects --- Religion. --- History --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites et cérémonies --- Guerres --- Aspect social --- Religion --- Histoire --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Aztèques --- Rites et cérémonies --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Arts and Humanities

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This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the book are threefold. The first is to construct an in-depth understanding of the economic organization of precolumbian Aztec society and how it developed in the way that it did. The second is to explore the livelihoods of the individuals who bought, sold, and moved goods across a cultural landscape that lacked both navigable rivers and animal transport. Finally, this study models Aztec economy in a way that facilitates its comparison to other ancient and premodern societies around the world.  What makes the Aztec economy unique is that it developed one of the most sophisticated market economies in the ancient world in a society with one of the worse transportation systems. This is the first book to provide an updated and comprehensive view of the Aztec economy in thirty years.

Aztecs --- Merchants --- Indians of Mexico --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Businesspeople --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Nahuas --- Economic conditions. --- Commerce. --- History --- Commerce

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Human sacrifice --- Aztecs --- Sacrifices humains --- Aztèques --- Religion and mythology --- Social life and customs --- Religion et mythologie --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion. --- Aztèques --- Antiquités --- Sacrifice, Human --- Sacrifice --- Aztec Indians --- Azteca Indians --- Aztecan Indians --- Mexica Indians --- Tenocha Indians --- Indians of Mexico --- Nahuas --- Religion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritual murder --- Aztecs - Rites and ceremonies. --- Aztecs - Religion. --- Human sacrifice - Mexico. --- Sacrifice humain --- Histoire --- Coutumes et pratiques