The Daily Life of the Aztecs
Published on 14. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-84212-508-3 (ISBN)
Description
A vivid account of the fierce, honourable, death-obsessed, profoundly religious Aztecs on the eve of the Spanish conquest. Even in the darkest symbolism of their blood-drenched worship they appear as people with whom we can sympathise.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
39, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84212-508-3 (9781842125083)
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Person
Jacques Soustelle was born in Montpellier in 1912 and attained fame both as a scholar and a politician. He made an exhaustive study of the Aztec language, society, art and architecture, rituals and beliefs. Following his retirement from active politics at the time of the first Algerian revolt, he returned to Paris to reassume a position he had held since 1937-Director of the most famous ethnological museum in the world, the Musee de l'Homme. He died in 1990.