Inbunden, Engelska, 1998
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Del i serien Religion in North America
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Beskrivning
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 1998-07-22
- Mått: 156 x 235 x undefined mm
- Vikt: 680 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Religion in North America
- Antal sidor: 336
- Förlag: Indiana University Press
- ISBN: 9780253334008
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Kay Read is associate professor of comparative religions in the Religious Studies Department at DePaul University. She is the author of a number of articles on pre-Conquest religious traditions and is currently working on both a book on Mexica rulership and ethics and an encyclopedia of mesoamerican mythology.
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