num_pages: 391
description: In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings.
language: English
title: Aztecs: An Interpretation
titlecomplete: Aztecs: An Interpretation
genres: Nonfiction, Religion, Ancient History, Medieval, Latin American, Sociology, History, Anthropology, The Americas, Research
ratings_count: 227
publisher: Cambridge University Press