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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
- Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society af Inga Clendinnen, 9780521732079
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Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780521732079
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0521732077
Udg. Dato:
31 mar 2010
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,7 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
31 mar 2010
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The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society

- Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture
Engelsk
Paperback 2010
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How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology translated into dangerously novel circumstances, and the multiple paths to the sacred constructed by ''defeated'' populations in sixteenth-century Mexico. The collection ends with Clendinnen''s transition to the colonial history of her own country: a close and loving reading of the 1841 expedition journal of George Augustus Robinson, appointed ''Protector of Aborigines'' in the Port Philip District of Australia.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780521732079
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0521732077
Udg. Dato:
31 mar 2010
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,7 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
31 mar 2010
Forfatter(e):
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