City of Sacrifice The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

Name: City of Sacrifice The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
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ISBN: 9780807046432

ISBN-10: 0807046434

ISBN-13: 9780807046432

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Carrasco

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At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice, Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 12/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University. For his scholarship in Mesoamerican religions and his work on Mexican American culture he received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle.