The Teotihuacan Trinity : : The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City / / Annabeth Headrick.
Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Approaching the City
- Chapter 2. The Invisible Kings
- Chapter 3. Ancestral Foundations
- Chapter 4. Animals, Cannibals, and the Military
- Chapter 5. A Marriage of Convenience: The King and the Military
- Chapter 6. The Gods Did It: The Divine Sanction of Power
- Chapter 7. Teotihuacan Jihad
- Chapter 8. Fiesta Teotihuacan Style
- Chapter 9. Continuities and Power
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index