Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nichols, Deborah L.
• Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique

Description

xxix, 748 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of the Aztecs
• Aztecs

Subject

• Aztecs

Note

• Series statement from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Archaeology of the Aztecs -- Introduction: Aztec studies : trends and themes / Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- Ancient stone sculptures : in search of the Mexica past / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The historical sources : codices and chronicles / Juan José Batalla -- Museums and the conservation of Mexica cultural heritage / María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi -- Part II. Historical change -- Comments on cultural continuities between Tula and the Mexica / Luis M Gamboa Cabezas and Robert H. Cobean -- Aztec settlement history / Larry Gorenflo and Christopher P. Garraty -- The creation, rise, and decline of Mexica power / Enrique Florescano -- The measure, meaning and transformation of Aztec time and calendars / Anthony F. Aveni -- Aztec pictography and painted histories / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- The languages of the Aztec empire / Jane Hill -- Aztec state making, politics, and empires : the triple alliance / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Heredia Espinoza -- Nahua thought and the conquest / Michel R. Oudijk and Maria Castañeda de la Paz -- Part III. Landscapes and places -- Aztec agricultural production in a historical ecological perspective / Emily McClung de Tapia and Diana Martínez Yrizar -- Population history in pre-Columbian and colonial times / Lourdes Márquez Morfín and Rebecca Storey -- Aztec urbanism: cities and towns / Michael E. Smith -- Tenochtitlan / José Luis de Rojas -- Palaces and gardens, intertwined evolution / Susan Toby Evans -- Households in the Aztec empire / Kristin De Lucia -- Part IV. Economic and social relations in the Aztec empire -- Aztec agricultural strategies : intensification, landesque capital, and the socio-politics of production / Christopher Morehart -- The structure of Aztec commerce : markets and merchants / Kenneth Hirth and Deborah L. Nichols -- Aztec use of lake resources in the basin of Mexico / John K. Milhauser -- Aztec metallurgy / Dorothy Hosler -- Aztec obsidian industries / David M. Carballo and Alejandro Pastrana -- Aztec lapidaries / Cynthia Otis Charlton and Alejandro Pastrana -- Pottery and the potter's craft in the aztec heartland / Leah D. Minc -- Pregnant in the dancing place: myths and methods of textile production and use / Geoffrey McCafferty and Sharisse McCafferty -- Gender and Aztec lifecycles / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- The human body in the Mexica worldview / Alfredo López Austin -- Nahua ethnicity / James M. Taggert -- Inequality and social class in Aztec society / Michael E. Smith and Frederic Hicks -- Part V. Aztec provinces, friends, and foes -- Structure of the Aztec empire / Frances F. Berdan -- Mexica war : new research perspectives / Marco A. Cervera Obregón -- Aztec provinces of the central highlands / Maëlle Sergheraert -- Aztec provinces of the southern highlands / Gerardo Gutiérrez -- Aztec provinces of the gulf lowlands / Marcie L. Venter -- Tututepec: a Mixtec imperial capital in southern Oaxaca / Marc N. Levine -- Cholula in Aztec times / Patricia Plunket and Gabriella Uruñuela -- The independent Republic of Tlaxcallan / Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- The tarascan (purépecha) empire / Anna S. Cohen and Christopher Fisher -- Aztec empire in comparative perspective / R. Alan Covey and Amanda Aland -- Part VI. Ritual, belief, and religion -- Humans and gods in the Mexica universe / Guilhem Olivier -- Aztec art, time, and cosmovisión / William Barnes -- The Aztec ritual landscape / Leon Garcia Garagarza -- State ritual and religion in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan / Alfredo López Austin and Leonardo López Luján -- Aztec domestic ritual / Lisa Overholtzer -- Part VII. Aztecs after the conquest -- Postconquest rural Aztec archaeology / Patricia Fournier G. and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- Postconquest urban Aztec archaeology / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- The Aztecs and the Catholic Church / Louise M. Burkhart -- Aztec art after the conquest in Mexico and in museums abroad / Ray Hernández Durán -- The Aztecs and their descendants in the contemporary world / Alan R. Sandstrom.

Call Number

F1219.73

ISBN

• 9780199341962
• 0199341966

LCCN

• 2016010926
• 40026642311

OCLC

965519117

Title

The Oxford handbook of the Aztecs / edited by Deborah L. Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Nichols, Deborah L., editor.

Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Oxford handbook of the Aztecs New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780199341979 (DLC) 2016011519

Other Standard Identifier

40026642311

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR F1219.73 .O94 2017