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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carrasco, David. City of sacrifice. Boston : Beacon Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607386391 Online version: Carrasco, David. City of sacrifice. Boston : Beacon Press, c1999 (OCoLC)608132487 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Carrasco |
| ISBN: | 0807046426 9780807046425 9780807046432 0807046434 |
| OCLC Number: | 41368255 |
| Description: | 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Performing the city of sacrifice -- 1. City as symbol in Aztec thought : some clues from the Codex Mendoza -- 2. Templo Mayor : the Aztec vision of place -- 3. The new fire ceremony and the binding of the years : Tenochtitlan's fearful symmetry -- 4. The sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca : to change place -- 5. Give me some skin : the charisma of the Aztec warrior -- 6. Cosmic jaws : we eat the Gods and the Gods eat us -- 7. The sacrifice of women : the hearts of plants and makers of war games -- 8. When warriors became walls, when the mountain of water crumbled. |
| Responsibility: | David Carrasco. |
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"In City of Sacrifice, Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. And Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his survey of urbanization from antiquity to modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
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