David Carrasco

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.

A Very Short Introduction

The Aztecs

Presenting the most up-to-date coverage on our knowledge of this society, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive and comparative reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerica.Written for a wide audience, it is an invaluable reference for interested lay persons, students, teachers, and scholars in such fields as art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, Latin American culture, and the history of the region. Organized alphabetically, the articles range from500-word biographies to 7,000-word entries on geography and history to the legacy of the arts, writings, architecture, and religious rituals.An extensive network of cross-references, blind entries, and annotated bibliographies guide the reader to related entries within the Encyclopedia and provide the groundwork for further research.

The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures

Deward E. Walker

A collection of studies (previously published) which is a revised and expanded edition of Walker's 1970 collection. Coverage has been extended to include the peoples of both Mesoamerica and the Arctic. When coupled with comparative studies drawn from other parts of the world, this volume contributes toward a cross-cultural theory of the forms and functions of supernatural techniques used to bring misfortune to others. No index. Printed on acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Witchcraft and Sorcery of the American Native Peoples

Eleven papers on the formation and character of the Mesoamerican cosmovision exploring the interaction between religious imagination, the movements of stars, the contours of mountains, hunting, stones, sun, moon, Venus and parts of the human body.

Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions

The Imagination of Matter

Nicholas John Cull

The critically acclaimed 110-minute film "Alambrista" (1977) depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border. For this release, a group of scholars has packaged a new director's cut of the film with a book of essays devoted to immigration and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and an enhanced CD of the sound track.

Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants

Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border

Scott Sessions

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Professor of the History of Religions and Director of the Raphael and Fletcher Lee Moses Mesoamerican Archive David Carrasco

Profiles the history, people, culture, artwork, beliefs, and daily life of Moctezuma's Mexico.

Visions of the Aztec World

Moctezuma's Mexico

At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice, Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.

The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

City of Sacrifice

Mircea Eliade

Jane Marie Law

First published in 1991, Waiting for the Dawn is the result of a year-long interdisciplinary study of Mircea Eliade's scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works which took place at the University of Colorado in 1982. With a preface by Davíd Carrasco that takes into account recent developments in Eliade scholarship, this important work is back in print after renewed interest in Eliade thanks to Francis Ford Coppola's screen adaptation Youth without Youth (2007).

Mircea Eliade in Perspective

Waiting for the Dawn

Experience and explore the often controversial lives of the ancient Aztecs through this comprehensive social history of their culture.

People of the Sun and Earth

Daily Life of the Aztecs

Chronicles the story of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, investigating Aztec religious practices, arguing that religious violence was integral to urbanization

Johanna Broda

Examines the importance of the Aztec temple from the perspectives of archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and religious historian

Center and Periphery in the Aztec World

The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

Davíd Davíd Carrasco

"Dating from around the 1540s, barely two decades after the fall of the Aztecs, the mapa recently underwent extensive physical analysis, conservation and a photographic survey. Many of the resulting images accompany fifteen essays that explore the meanings and uses of the document, its complex narrative, and the social and ritual memory of an indigenous community struggling to hold its own in the turbulent atmosphere of early colonial Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.

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