TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carrasco,David
TI  - City of sacrifice: the Aztec empire and the role of violence in civilization 
SN  - 0807046426
AV  - F1219.3.R38 C28 1999
U1  - 299.78452 CA.C 1999 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Indians of Mexico
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Aztecs
KW  - Human sacrifice
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Central America
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents
 	Introduction: Performing the City of Sacrifice	1
Ch. 1	City as Symbol in Aztec Thought: Some Clues from the Codex Mendoza	15
Ch. 2	Templo Mayor: The Aztec Vision of Place	49
Ch. 3	The New Fire Ceremony and the Binding of the Years: Tenochtitlan's Fearful Symmetry	88
Ch. 4	The Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca: To Change Place	115
Ch. 5	Give Me Some Skin: The Charisma of the Aztec Warrior	140
Ch. 6	Cosmic Jaws: We Eat the Gods and the Gods Eat Us	164
Ch. 7	The Sacrifice of Women: The Hearts of Plants and Makers of War Games	188
Ch. 8	When Warriors Became Walls, When the Mountains of Water Crumbled	211
 	Notes	223
 	Acknowledgments	272
 	Index	274
N2  - "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. And Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his survey of urbanization from antiquity to modernity."--Jacket
ER  -