Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes

Davíd Carrasco is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, professor of history of religions at Harvard University, editor of UPC's Mesoamerican Worlds series and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. His works include Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage, Moctezuma's Mexico, Waiting for the Dawn, Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes (University Press of Colorado), and City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization (Beacon).

"Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes provides a pregnant opportunity to integrate specific Mesoamerican materials into the wider discussions of major theoretical issues in the general and comparative history of religions."—History of Religions

• ; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Fash; William L.; Preface; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; Acknowledgments; Carrasco; David; Introduction: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes; Carrasco; David; Part I:; New Discoveries at El Templo Mayor, Tlatelolco, and Mt. Tlaloc; 1; Notes on the Oldest Sculpture of El Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan; Moctezuma; Eduardo Matos; 2; A Study of Skeletal Materials from Tlatelolco; Berrelleza; Juan Alberto Roman; 3; Discovery of a Painted Mural at Tlatelolco; Arroyo; Salvador Guil'liem; 4; The Mt. Tlaloc Project; Townsend; Richard F.; Part II:; Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes; 5; The Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca: To Change Place; Carrasco; David; 6; Mapping the Ritual Landscape: Debt Payment to Tlaloc During the Month of Atlcahualo; Aveni; Anthony F.; 7; The Sacred Landscape of Aztec Calendar Festivals: Myth, Nature, and Society; Broda; Johanna; 8; Migration Histories as Ritual Performance; Boone; Elizabeth Hill; 9; The Myth of the Half-Man Who Descended from the Sky; Austin; Alfredo Lopez; 10; The Octli Cult in Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico; Nicholson; Henry B.; 11; Dryness Before the Rains: Toxcatl and Tezcatlipoca; Heyden; Doris; Part III:; Changing Voices; 12; Reflection on the Miraculous Waters of Tenochtitlan; Sullivan; Lawrence E.; 13; Vamos a Rezar a San Marcos: A Tlapanec Pilgrimage; van der Loo; Peter L.; 14; Eating Landscape: Human Sacrifice and Sustenance in Aztec Mexico; Arnold; Philip P.; 15; Religious Rationalization and the Conversions of the Nahuas: Social Organization and Colonial Epistemology; de Alva; J. Jorge Klor; 16; Remnants of the Shaman; Day; Jane Stevenson; Index;