Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico write by David M. Carballo. This book was released on 2016. Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the ways in which urbanisation and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico. It provides a materially informed history of religion and an archaeology of cities that considers religion as a generative force in societal change
Ancient Teotihuacan
Ancient Teotihuacan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Teotihuacan write by George L. Cowgill. This book was released on 2015-04-02. Ancient Teotihuacan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a predecessor that arose around 400 BCE, then traces Teotihuacan from its founding in approximately 150 BCE to its collapse around 600 CE. It describes the city's immense pyramids and other elite structures. It also discusses the dwellings and daily lives of commoners, including men, women, and children, and the craft activities of artisans. George L. Cowgill discusses politics, economics, technology, art, religion, and possible reasons for Teotihuacan's rise and fall. Long before the Aztecs and 800 miles from Classic Maya centers, Teotihuacan was part of a broad Mesoamerican tradition but had a distinctive personality that invites comparison with other states and empires of the ancient world.
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas write by Sarah B. Barber. This book was released on 2017-09-20. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
City of Sacrifice
City of Sacrifice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Sacrifice write by David Carrasco. This book was released on 2000-12-08. City of Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Burning Water
Burning Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burning Water write by Laurette Séjourné. This book was released on 1976. Burning Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The subject of this book is the cosmology and religion of the Toltecs and Aztecs, and it's main focus is the figure of Tollan's priestly king, Quetzalcoatl, and his teachings.
