Daily Life of the Aztecs - Brossura

Soustelle, Jacques

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1842125087 ISBN 13: 9781842125083

Casa editrice: Orion, 2002

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro:

¿Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma and who strangled Atahualpa¿, said Macaulay. Read this book to join the schoolboy in his eminence.

L'autore:

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 Musée de l¿Homme. He died in 1990.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1842125087
• ISBN 13: 9781842125083
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336