Time, History, And Belief In Aztec And Colonial Mexico. Ross Hassig

Time, History, And Belief In Aztec And Colonial Mexico



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Time, History, And Belief In Aztec And Colonial Mexico Ross Hassig ebook
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Page: 240
ISBN: 9780292731400

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

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