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The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the mo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Handbooks Online)
Other Authors: Nichols, Deborah L. (Editor), Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique (Editor)
Other title:Aztecs.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
Subjects:
Aztecs.
Table of Contents:
  • Ancient Stone Sculptures: In Search of the Mexica Past / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  • Aztec Agricultural Strategies: Intensification, Landesque Capital, and the Socio-politics of Production / Christopher Morehart
  • The Structure of Aztec Commerce: Markets and Merchants / Kenneth Hirth, Deborah L. Nichols
  • Aztec Metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler
  • 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, Sharisse McCafferty
  • The Human Body in the Mexica Worldview / Alfredo López Austin
  • Inequality and Social Class in Aztec Society / Michael E. Smith, Frederic Hicks
  • Aztec Provinces of the Central Highlands / Maëlle Sergheraert
  • Aztec Provinces of the Southern Highlands / Gerardo Gutiérrez
  • Tututepec: A Mixtec Imperial Capital in Southern Oaxaca / Marc N. Levine
  • Museums and the Conservation of Mexica Cultural Heritage / María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi
  • Cholula in Aztec Times / Patricia Plunket, Gabriella Uruñuela
  • The Tarascan (Purépecha) Empire / Anna S. Cohen, Christopher Fisher
  • Aztec Empire in Comparative Perspective / R. Alan Covey, Amanda Aland
  • Aztec Art, Time, and Cosmovisión / William Barnes
  • The Aztec Ritual Landscape / Leon Garcia Garagarza
  • State Ritual and Religion in the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan / Alfredo López Austin, Leonardo López Luján
  • Aztec Domestic Ritual / Lisa Overholtzer
  • Postconquest Urban Aztec Archaeology / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
  • Aztec Studies: Trends and Themes / Deborah L. Nichols, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
  • Aztec Urbanism: Cities and Towns / Michael E. Smith
  • Comments on Cultural Continuities Between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas, Robert H. Cobean
  • The Historical Sources: Codices and Chronicles / Juan José Batalla
  • 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, Verenice Heredia Espinoza
  • Population History in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Times / Lourdes Márquez Morfín, Rebecca Storey
  • Households in the Aztec Empire / Kristin De Lucia
  • Aztec Use of Lake Resources in the Basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser
  • Aztec Obsidian Industries / David M. Carballo, Alejandro Pastrana
  • Aztec Lapidaries / Cynthia L. Otis Charlton, Alejandro Pastrana
  • Aztec Settlement History / Larry Gorenflo, Christopher P. Garraty
  • Gender and Aztec Lifecycles / Caroline Dodds Pennock
  • Nahua Ethnicity / James M. Taggert
  • Structure of the Aztec Empire / Frances F. Berdan
  • Mexica War: New Research Perspectives / Marco A. Cervera Obregón
  • Aztec Provinces of the Gulf Lowlands / Marcie L. Venter
  • The Independent Republic of Tlaxcallan / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, Verenice Heredia Espinoza
  • Humans and Gods in the Mexica Universe / Guilhem Olivier
  • Postconquest Rural Aztec Archaeology / Patricia Fournier G., Cynthia L. Otis Charlton
  • The Aztecs and the Catholic Church / Louise M. Burkhart
  • Aztec Art After the Conquest in Mexico and in Museums Abroad / Ray Hernández Durán
  • The Creation, Rise, and Decline of Mexica Power / Enrique Florescano
  • The Aztecs and Their Descendants in the Contemporary World / Alan R. Sandstrom
  • Nahua Thought and the Conquest / Michel R. Oudijk, Maria Castañeda de la Paz
  • Aztec Agricultural Production in a Historical Ecological Perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia, Diana Martínez Yrizar
  • Tenochtitlan / José Luis de Rojas
  • Palaces and Gardens, Intertwined Evolution / Susan Toby Evans.

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