Representing Aztec Ritual

Representing Aztec RitualArriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagn not only labored to supplant native religion with Christianity, he also gathered voluminous information on virtually every aspect of Aztec (Nahua) life in contact period Mexico. Sahagn's remarkably detailed descriptions of Aztec ceremonial life offer the most extensive account of a non Western ritual system recorded before modern

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