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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 31, 1984)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521318963
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521318969
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
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panaqa members, upper pantheon, royal ayllus, royal ancestor cult, split inheritance, imperial cosmology, secondary heirs, ideological adaptations, royal mummies, economic symbiosis, demographic determinism, independent enclaves, labor taxation, territorial growth, ethnohistorical evidence, ideological reforms, cultural ecologists, burial platforms, deceased rulers, ethnohistorical sources, environmental diversity, sacrificial cult, state cult, cultural materialists
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Triple Alliance, Central Mexico, Titicaca Basin, Huayna Capac, Viracocha Inca, Valley of Mexico, Inca Empire, Topa Inca, Central Mexican, Aztec Empire, Spanish Conquest, Central Andean, Guaman Poma, Late Postclassic, Late Intermediate Period, Central Andes, Historia de los Mexicanos, Marvin Harris, Anales de Tlatelolco, Chan Chan, Lake Texcoco, Late Horizon, Harriet de Onis, Inca Urcon, Middle Horizon
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4.0 out of 5 stars Has good and bad points, December 20, 2001
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I read this book for a class on the emergence of state society. The book was great for its review of Aztec ideology and its resulting effects on the society. Too many authors ignore the importance of the way people think. However, archaeological evidence does not support their conclusions about the Inca's ancestor worship. But the book was good read, very fast paced and enjoyable. I recommend it.
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The book really gets into the nuts and bolts of the empires, showing you how ideas could give birth to and help expand the two cultures. But it also shows how the same ideas could hinder and even start to destroy the empires later in their existance. Yet it is not hard to read and even delightful at some points. They answer alot of questions I had about the Aztec and Inca, making sure to support everything they say with lots of details. A must of any history library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is excellent., September 22, 1998
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It explains how modern/western thought fails when applied to the cultures of the Aztecs and Incas. This book is good for beginning students for the narrative is easy to follow. However, it is outstanding for the more advanced scholar. This book would make a great companion book to broader studies of these two cultures. The authors criticise modern archaeology for its dogmatic unbending views.The authors also take modern political theory and apply it to these ancient cultures. What happens is that it falls apart. Marx, Hegel, et al have met their match against these ancient ones. What a great departure from the faulty theories of socialism & communism.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Do we really need a reprint of an old and not very good book?
The interpretations of the Aztec empire in this book were misleading and deficient when it was first published in 1984; now they are both bad and outdated. Read more
Published on January 5, 2007 by Michael E. Smith

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I read this book as part of a research project into the rise and fall of the Mexica, or Aztec. This book offered an interesting view of the Aztec, as a warfaring society which was... Read more
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