The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs by Nichols, Deborah L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction—Aztec Studies: Trends and Themes Part I Archaeology of the Aztecs

Part II Historical Change

Part III Landscapes and Places

12. Aztec Agricultural Production in a Historical Ecological Perspective 13. Population History in Precolumbian and Colonial Times 14. Aztec Urbanism: Cities and Towns 15. Tenochtitlan 16. Aztec Palaces and Gardens, Intertwined Evolution 17. Households in the Aztec Empire

Part IV Economic and Social Relations in the Aztec Empire

20. Aztec Use of Lake Resources in the Basin of Mexico 21. Aztec Metallurgy 22. Aztec Obsidian Industries 23. Aztec Lapidaries 24. Pottery and the Potter’s Craft in the Aztec Heartland 25. Pregnant in the Dancing Place: Myths and Methods of Textile Production and Use

Part IV-B Social Relations

26. Gender and Aztec Life Cycles 27. The Human Body in the Mexica Worldview 28. Nahua Ethnicity 29. Inequality and Social Class in Aztec Society

Part V Aztec Provinces, Friends, and Foes

30. Structure of the Triple Alliance Empire 31. Mexica War: New Research Perspectives 32. Aztec Provinces of the Central Highlands 33. Aztec Provinces of the Southern Highlands 34. Aztec Provinces of the Gulf Lowlands 35. Tututepec: A Mixtec Imperial Capital in Southern Oaxaca 36. Cholula in Aztec Times 37. The Independent Republic of Tlaxcallan 38. The Tarascan (Purépecha) Empire 39. Aztec Empire in Comparative Perspective

Part VI Ritual, Belief, and Religion

40. Humans and Gods in the Mexica Universe 41. Aztec Art, Time, and Cosmovisión 42. The Aztec Ritual Landscape 43. State Ritual and Religion in the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan 44. Aztec Domestic Ritual

Part VII Aztecs after the Conquest

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