A review by niecierpek
Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

It’s an in depth , scholarly analysis of Aztec cosmology, culture and its rituals, gender roles and daily living.  The study is very interesting, and judging by the number of citations in other works that I supplemented my reading with, definitive and influential, but I had to read it very slowly and with frequent breaks.  Violence and torture seem to have permeated Aztec lives.  Bloody rituals and inflicting torture on fellow human beings, which they raised to the level of macabre art and profound religious experience,  is something I can take only in small doses. 
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