gender, lifecycle and sacrifice in Aztec culture /
First Statement of Responsibility
Caroline Dodds Pennock.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 225 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Early modern history : society and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-218) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Living with death -- Birth and blood -- Growing up -- Tying the knot -- Marriage and partnership -- Outside the norm -- Aging and mortality.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.