Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos - Couverture rigide

Read, Kay Almere

 
9780253334008: Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0253334004 ISBN 13 : 9780253334008
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kay Read is associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. She is the author of a number of articles on pre-Conquest religious traditions and is currently working on both a book on Mexica rulership and ethics and an encyclopedia of mesoamerican mythology.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253334004
ISBN 13 
9780253334008
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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