Four Suns: Recollections and Reflections of an Ethnologist

SOUSTELLE,Jacques

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Recounts the recent discovery of this ancient Central American civilization, describes what has been learned about Olmec culture, and speculates about their political and social organization

The Olmecs: The Oldest Civilization in Mexico (English and French Edition)

History

Americas

DOUBLEDAY

Tireless speech-makers and lovers of verse, the ancient Aztecs were also prodigious record keepers, using a pictographic system to keep records of their history, geography, and rituals. Many of these accounts were destroyed after the Spanish conquest; but fortunately, a few survived, including those kept by the invaders. This book by an international authority on Mexican archaeology and sociology presents a vivid history of that profoundly religious Aztec warrior society — from its days as a primitive people, to the early sixteenth century — when, on the eve of the Spanish conquest, a powerful native government ruled with great organizational ability and restless energy. Rare illustrations of the temples at Tenochtitlán and Tenayuca, human sacrifice, Aztec gods, weddings, the midnight revels of warriors, and many other subjects accompany a highly readable text that describes the problems of living in a great city-state, the ruling classes and living standards, religious beliefs, and the everyday lives of people. Here also are detailed descriptions of public buildings and market places, home furnishings, games and amusements, family life, the conduct of war, the arts of language, music and dancing, and other topics. Amazing in scope and detail, this work will be invaluable to students of Mexican history and of interest to anyone fascinated by this ancient civilization.

Daily Life of the Aztecs (Native American)

Dover Publications

Shows the mountains, rivers, valleys, towns, and ancient ruins of Peru, Chile, and Bolivia, and depicts the culture and daily life of modern Incas

The Land of the Incas

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

Arts of Ancient Mexico

Studio

The subject of this book is the life of the Mexicans—the Mexica, as they said themselves—at the beginning of the sixteenth century. At that time, in the early 1500s, nobody, from the arid steppes of the north to the burning jungles of the isthmus, from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the shore of the Pacific, could have believed that this enormous empire, its culture, its art, its gods, were to go down a few years later in a historic cataclysm. The period with which this book is concerned is distinguished from all others by the wealth of its written documentation. The Mexicans were interested in themselves and in their history; they were tireless speech-makers and great loves of verse, thus an immense quantity of books and legal documents came into being. Drawing on this rich recorded history, Soustelle creates a memorable portrait of Aztec society.

Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

Stanford University Press

The Olmecs: The Oldest Civilization in Mexico

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

The Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them--imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, without question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable portrayal of Aztec life available in any language."--The Observer.

Daily Life of the Aztecs

Phoenix

Azteques (Les)

QUE SAIS JE

Les Aztèques (QUE SAIS-JE ?)

Que sais-je

Presses Universitaires de France (PUF)

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