La palabra de los aztecas
by Leon-Portilla, Miguel, Johansson, Patrick
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Publisher Fact Sheet This landmark book offers the first comprehensive description & analysis of gender & power relations in prehispanic Mesoamerica for the Formative Period Olmec world through the Postclassic Maya & Aztec societies of the 16th century A.D.
Drawing upon the category "ritual practices of time" the book offers a comparative analytical model and theoretical insights about calendars in Mesoamerica and in general. This comprehensive study systematically explicates how ritual practises are represented and conceptualised …
Outlines the influence that Spanish rule had upon all aspects of Aztec life during the three hundred years after their conquest.