Moctezuma's Mexico : visions of the Aztec world / Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma ; Scott Sessions, assistant editor ; foreword by James N. Corbridge, Jr. ; with essays by Anthony F. Aveni and Elizabeth Hill Boone ; photographs by Salvador Guilʾliem Arroyo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrasco, Davíd.

Contributor:

Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo

Sessions, Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aztecs.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Mexico.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xiv, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2003]

Summary:

Updated with a new chapter by David Carrasco describing how the Aztec world has been re-imagined by modern Mexican American communities and Chicano scholars, Moctezuma's Mexico is a lavishly illustrated volume that provides an in-depth historical profile of the Aztec empire on the eve of its fateful encounter with the Europeans. Beginning with an exploration of Aztec history and cosmovision, the authors and two other prominent scholars -- Anthony Aveni and Elizabeth Hill Boone -- examine Aztec ceremonies, astronomy, myths, rhetoric, and moral philosophy, as well as controversies in recent Aztec scholarship using poetry, sculpture, painting, and the archaeological record.

With nearly 150 full-color illustrations, Moctezuma's Mexico is an important and handsome book that will appeal to scholars and students of Mexico's indigenous past.

Contents:

Aztec History and Cosmovision / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma 3

Toward the Spendid City: Knowing the Worlds of Moctezuma / David Carrasco 99

Moctezuma's Sky: Aztec Astronomy and Ritual / Anthony F. Aveni 149

Glorious Imperium: Understanding Land and Community in Moctezuma's Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone 159

Aztec Moments and Chicano Cosmovision: Aztlan Recalled to Life / David Carrasco 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index.

ISBN:

0870816764

OCLC:

50725628