A Concise History of the Aztecs
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- Author: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston
- Date Published: February 2024
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108712941
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Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, religion, and intellectual and artistic developments. Appreciating the vast number of sources available but also their limitations, Kellogg focuses on three concepts throughout – value, transformation, and balance. Aztecs created value, material, and symbolic worth. Value was created through transformations of bodies, things, and ideas. The overall goal of value creation and transformation was to keep the Aztec world—the cosmos, the earth, its inhabitants—in balance, a balance often threatened by spiritual and other forms of chaos. The book highlights the ethnicities that constituted Aztec peoples and sheds light on religion, political and economic organization, gender, sexuality and family life, intellectual achievements, and survival. Seeking to correct common misperceptions, Kellogg stresses the humanity of the Aztecs and problematizes the use of the terms 'human sacrifice', 'myth', and 'conquest'.
Read more- Explains major sources in detail to highlight the importance of indigenous-language terminology in Aztec history scholarship
- Fully integrates women's and gender history, areas not commonly explored in previous works within the field
- Uses three concepts – value, transformation, and balance – to explain the Aztec ways of surviving and perceiving
Reviews & endorsements
'In this indispensable guide to the Aztec world, Kellogg skillfully weaves deep context and essential information with humane understanding and rich detail. Not only an essential book for students, but also a readable introduction for anyone interested in this remarkable civilization.' Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered the World
See more reviews'Aztec civilization has been crying out for rehabilitation since the Spanish invasion. That work is finally underway, and here Susan Kellogg makes a major contribution to it, using incision and insight to bestow a believable humanity on the Aztec people.' Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met Cortés
'[A]n impressively researched and well-executed volume that includes figures, maps, tables, an essential mostly Nahauatl-language glossary, and a bibliographic essay. … Designed as a concise yet comprehensive text for students and general readers, this volume also provides valuable insights for scholars and teachers.… Highly recommended.' C. C. Kolb, Choice
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- Date Published: February 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108712941
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Living in the Aztecs' cosmos
3. Communities, kingdoms, 'empires'
4. Creating value: producing, exchanging, consuming
5. Sex and the altepetl: gender, sexuality, and Aztec family values
6. Resilience: Part I: Aztec intellectual life
7. Resilience: Part II: trauma, transformation, tenacity.
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