The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History
by Gillespie, Susan D
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0816513392
- ISBN 13
- 9780816513390
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Ucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1992. Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 272 Pages Indexed. Green remainder mark on bottom page edges. Interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. No marks. Scholars have long viewed histories of the Aztecs either as flawed chronologies plagued by internal inconsistencies and intersource discrepancies or as legends that indiscriminately mingle reality with the supernatural. But this new work draws fresh conclusions from these documents, proposing that Aztec dynastic history was recast by its sixteenth-century recorders not merely to glorify ancestors but to make sense out of the trauma of conquest and colonialism. The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time which required that history constantly be reinterpreted to achieve continuity between past and present and to treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, whose stories reveal how the Aztecs used "history" to construct, elaborate, and reify ideas about the nature of rulership and the cyclical nature of the cosmos, and how they projected the Spanish conquest deep into the Aztec past in order to make history accommodate that event. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
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- Title
- The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History
- Author
- Gillespie, Susan D
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0816513392
- ISBN 13
- 9780816513390
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Place of Publication
- Ucson, Arizona
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 6" x 9
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