[PDF.85ls] City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

[PDF.cz67] City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization

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 | #748251 in Books |  Beacon Press |  2000-12-08 |  2000-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.63 x5.31l,.62 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Impenetrable Academic Jargon|By Cebes|The author rightly points out that scholars have largely avoided the topic of Aztec sacrifice, no doubt for political reasons (for fear that describing the horrible brutality of these practices might appear to be a justification for the European conquest). It is thus good to see someone face the topic directly. Nonetheless the book is a d| |A brilliant, provocative, timely, and eternal book.... We know that power, whatever its origin-sacred, natural, ethnic, contractual, or democratic-is an expression of violence. Davíd Carrasco now demonstrates a shattering, unsentimental truth: civilizat

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 ...

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