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Everyday life in the Aztec world / Frances F. Berdan, California State University, San Bernadino, Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University.
Penn Museum Library F1219.76.S64 B47 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berdan, Frances F., author.
- Smith, Michael E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aztecs--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- Aztecs.
- Aztecs--Social life and customs.
- Aztecs--History--Juvenile literature.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In Daily Life of the Aztecs, Frances Berdan and Michael 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. Throu\gh 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I LIVES
- 1. The Emperor
- 2. The Priest
- 3. The Featherworker
- 4. The Merchant
- 5. The Farmer
- 6. The Slave
- pt. II INTERSECTING LIVES
- 7. A Child Is Born
- 8. Market Day in Tlatelolco
- 9. Judgment Day
- 10. A Battle Far Afield.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Berdan, Frances F. Everyday life in the Aztec world.
- ISBN:
- 9780521516365
- 0521516366
- 9780521736220
- 0521736226
- OCLC:
- 1129396727
- Publisher Number:
- 99988375927
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