The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs

Weitere Verfasser: Nichols, Deborah L. , [HerausgeberIn]
Rodriguez-Alegria, Enrique, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: 785 pages.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford handbooks
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Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I. Archaeology of the Aztecs
  • Introduction: Aztec studies: trends and themes / Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria
  • Ancient stone sculptures: in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  • The historical sources: codices and chronicles / Juan Jose Batalla
  • Museums and the conservation of Mexica cultural heritage / Maria de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi
  • Part II. Historical change
  • Comments on cultural continuities between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas and Robert H. Cobean
  • Aztec settlement history / Larry Gorenflo and Christopher P. Garraty
  • The creation, rise, and decline of Mexica power / Enrique Florescano
  • The measure, meaning and transformation of Aztec time and calendars / Anthony F. Aveni
  • Aztec pictography and painted histories / Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • The languages of the Aztec empire / Jane Hill
  • ^Aztec state making, politics, and empires: the triple alliance / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Heredia Espinoza
  • Nahua thought and the conquest / Michel R. Oudijk and Maria Castaneda de la Paz
  • Part III. Landscapes and places
  • Aztec agricultural production in a historical ecological perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia and Diana Martinez Yrizar
  • Population history in pre-Columbian and colonial times / Lourdes Marquez Morfin and Rebecca Storey
  • Aztec urbanism: cities and towns / Michael E. Smith
  • Tenochtitlan / Jose Luis de Rojas
  • Palaces and gardens, intertwined evolution / Susan Toby Evans
  • Households in the Aztec empire / Kristin De Lucia
  • Part IV. Economic and social relations in the Aztec empire
  • Aztec agricultural strategies: intensification, landesque capital, and the socio-politics of production / Christopher Morehart
  • The structure of Aztec commerce: markets and merchants / Kenneth Hirth and Deborah L. Nichols
  • ^Aztec use of lake resources in the basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser
  • Aztec metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler
  • Aztec obsidian industries / David M. Carballo and Alejandro Pastrana
  • Aztec lapidaries / Cynthia Otis Charlton and Alejandro Pastrana
  • Pottery and the potter's craft in the aztec heartland / Leah D. Minc
  • Pregnant in the dancing place: myths and methods of textile production and use / Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty
  • Gender and Aztec lifecycles / Caroline Dodds Pennock
  • The human body in the Mexica worldview / Alfredo Lopez Austin
  • Nahua ethnicity / James M. Taggert
  • Inequality and social class in Aztec society / Michael E. Smith and Frederic Hicks
  • Part V. Aztec provinces, friends, and foes
  • Structure of the Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan
  • Mexica war: new research perspectives / Marco A. Cervera Obregon
  • Aztec provinces of the central highlands / Maelle Sergheraert
  • Aztec provinces of the southern highlands / Gerardo Gutierrez
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