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"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own? In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poetry into English, an expansion of his classic Trece poetas del mundo azteca, Miguel Leon-Portilla was assisted in his rethinking, augmenting, and rewriting in English by Grace Lobanov. Biographies of fifteen composers of Nahuatl verse and analyses of...
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers-and hearts-in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie...
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Repertorium Columbianum volume 1
Publisher
Wipf & Stock
Pub. Date
2004.
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xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xx, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"The Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin's 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this is the first English translation of the work"--
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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xiv, 592 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics - the Aztecs' understanding of the...
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