Name: Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico (en Inglés)
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Author: Ross Hassig
ISBN: 9780292731400

portada Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Texas Press

Autor

Ross Hassig

Año

2001

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

220

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

029273140X

ISBN13

9780292731400

Categorías

Mundo antiguo
Historia antigua

Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico (en Inglés)

Ross Hassig (Autor) · University Of Texas Press · Tapa Blanda

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Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling a dispersed tribute empire, and that the Conquest cut off state control and severed the unity of the calendar, leaving only the lesser cycles. From these, he asserts, we have inadequately reconstructed the pre-Columbian calendar and so misunderstood the Aztec conception of time and history.Hassig first presents the traditional explanation of the Aztec calendrical system and its ideological functions and then marshals contrary evidence to argue that the Aztec elite deliberately used calendars and timekeeping to achieve practical political ends. He further traces how the Conquest played out in the temporal realm as Spanish conceptions of time partially displaced the Aztec ones. His findings promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies conceived of time and history.