The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History

Gillespie, Susan D.

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: University of Arizona Press, Ucson, Arizona, 1992

0816513392 / 9780816513390

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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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Titolo
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History
Autore
Gillespie, Susan D.
Editore
University of Arizona Press, Ucson, Arizona
Anno di pubblicazione
1992
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Trade Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0816513392
ISBN 13
9780816513390
Edizione
Second Printing
Dimensioni
6" x 9"

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