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The cost of courage in Aztec society : essays on Mesoamerican society and culture /

"A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century"--Provided by publisher

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clendinnen, Inga
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The cost of courage in Aztec Society
  • 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico
  • Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century Yucatán
  • Ways to the sacred: reconstructing 'religion' in sixteenth century Mexico
  • Landscape and world view: the survival of Yucatec Maya culture under Spanish conquest
  • Breaking the mirror: from the Aztec spring festival to organ transplantation
  • Reading Mr. Robinson.