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Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
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Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico

Author: Ross Hassig
Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Publisher description: Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was  Read more...
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Hassig, Ross, 1945-
Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001
(OCoLC)606481089
Online version:
Hassig, Ross, 1945-
Time, history, and belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001
(OCoLC)607805026
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ross Hassig
ISBN: 0292731396 9780292731394 029273140X 9780292731400
OCLC Number: 44167649
Description: xv, 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Time and the Interpretation of Other Cultures --
2. Outside the Focus --
3. Reinterpreting Aztec Perspectives --
4. Why the Aztecs Manipulated Time --
5. The Ripples of Time --
6. The Colonial Transition --
7. Time and Analysis.
Responsibility: Ross Hassig.
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Challenges the view that Mesoamericans had a cyclical view of time, arguing instead that it was predominantly linear and manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed empire.  Read more...

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"Hassig's position is daring and potentially controversial and will be mandatory reading for those who deal with calendrical systems." --Dr. Barbara J. Price, Columbia University

 
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