Everyday Life in the Aztec World

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Everyday Life in the Aztec World

Everyday Life in the Aztec World

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In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. 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. Through 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780521516365
ISBN10 0521516366
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 580 g
Product Dimensions 157 x 234 x 17 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format hardback
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'A vast amount of sociocultural information is cleverly interwoven in this carefully crafted narrative …' C. C. Kolb, Choice

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Author's Bio

Frances Berdan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino.  She is the author or co-author of fourteen books on aspects of Aztec culture, most recently Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Cambridge, 2014). Her 4-volume co-authored The Codex Mendoza (1992) won the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1992. Michael E. Smith is Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Director of the ASU Teotihuacan Research Laboratory, he is the author of twelve books, including At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life (2016), which won the Best Popular Book award from the Society of American Archaeology in 2017.

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