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Aztec thought and cultureBook 1963 • León Portilla, Miguel
Aztecs • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This source attempts to reconstruct Aztec thought—cosmology, metaphysics, theology, history, art, human nature, and the acquisition of knowledge—as revealed in Nahuatl texts. There is particular reliance on the accounts given by informants belonging ...The broken spearsBook 1962 • León-Portilla, Miguel & Kemp, Lysander, 1920
Aztecs • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This source consists of selected excerpts from a number of primary sources revealing the Aztec point of view of the downfall of their imperial society and culture, as recounted by native authors and informants, in some cases from living memory. The e...Book of the gods and rites and the ancient calendarBook 1975 • Durán, Diego, d. et al.
Aztecs • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This work is a reconstruction of pre-Conquest Aztec religion and calendrics by a sympathetic mid-sixteenth century Dominican friar who spoke Nahuatl and interviewed numerous informants; there is an extensive introductory biography of the author. Alth...