[PDF.67wv] City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

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

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 | #373205 in Books |  Beacon Press |  2000-12-08 |  2000-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.63 x5.31l,.62 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| interesting Aztec ritual and cosmic geometry|By Christopher D. Hampson|In City of Sacrifice, David Carrasco explains his picture of Aztec cosmology by describing various Aztec rituals and traditions, drawing on his archaeological experience as well as his interpretation of Aztec art and myth. We may begin and end the book uncomfortable with human sacrifice, but Carrasco's under| |A brilliant, provocative, timely, and eternal book.... We know that power, whatever its origin-sacred, natural, ethnic, contractual, or democratic-is an expression of violence. Davíd Carrasco now demonstrates a shattering, unsentimental truth: civilizat

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 ...

You easily download any file type for your device.City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization   |  David Carrasco. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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