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Rethinking the Aztec Economy (Paperback): Deborah L. Nichols, Frances Berdan, Michael E. Smith Rethinking the Aztec Economy (Paperback)
Deborah L. Nichols, Frances Berdan, Michael E. Smith
R1,146 Discovery Miles 11 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 synthesizes our current understanding of the Aztec economy and singles out the topics of urbanism and provincial merchant activity for more detailed analysis. Part 2 brings new data and a new conceptual approach that applies insights from behavioral economics to Nahua and Aztec rituals and social objects. Contributors also discuss how high-value luxury goods, such as feather art, provide insights about both economic and sacred concepts of value in Aztec society. Part 3 reexamines the economy at the Aztec periphery. The volume concludes with a synthesis on the scale, integration, and nature of change in the Aztec imperial economy. Rethinking the Aztec Economy illustrates how superficially different kinds of social contexts were in fact integrated into a single society through the processes of a single economy. Using the world of goods as a crucial entry point, this volume advances scholarly understanding of life in the Aztec world.

Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica - The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography... Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica - The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography (Hardcover)
Frances Berdan
R1,495 R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Save R239 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ethnicity has long been a central concern of Mesoamerican ethnography, but for methodological reasons has received less attention in the archaeological, historical, and art historical literature. Using the disciplines of archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, and ethnography, "Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica "provides a unique interdisciplinary treatment of Nahua identity in central Mexico -- beginning with pre-Columbian times and proceeding through the Aztec empire, the colonial era, and the ethnographic present.
This book is the first to analyze ethnicity in a single place over a span that covers prehistory, colonial history, and contemporary life. The authors bring to their various case studies data, methodologies, and concepts of their respective fields to show how Nahuan concepts of ethnic identity are not based on the notion of shared descent but rather on conceptions of shared place of origin and common history.

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