Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle, Sacrifice Aztec Culture, Dodds Pennock (2008)

Description: Paperback, Like New, no markings. Caroline Dodds Pennock BONDS OF BLOOD Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Translation and Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Living with Death 2 Birth and Blood 3 Growing Up 4 Tying the Knot 5 Marriage and Partnership 6 Outside the Norm 7 Aging and Mortality Conclusion Glossary Notes Index Winner of the 2008 Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize The judges said of Dr Dodds Pennock's book: 'Few fields of study can present the historian with such a challenge as the world of the pre-conquest Aztecs... (al challenge that Caroline Dodds Pennock meets triumphantly. Her analysis of the rich but problematic evidence is unfailingly rigorous. Both theoretical and methodological sophistication, however, are worn lightly. What emerges is a vivid and convincing reconstruction of a society whose harsh view of life and death was tempered by the experience of warmth, and even joy, achieved through human relationships and the routines of everyday life.' *An exceptional volume because of its humanizing approach and attention to individual concerns, emotions, and perspectives. This beautifully written book is recommended for a wide readership, from undergraduate students to accomplished Mesoamerican scholars.' — Lisa Overholtzer, Bulletin of Latin American Research 'Gender specialists and students of all levels will find worthwhile [Dodds Pennock's search for the intimate as revealed by sources that downplay the personal and affective, rendered as it is in graceful, accessible prose.' - Susan Kellogg, Hispanic American Historical Review 'This study, beautifully written and organized, is a fresh approach to both the problems of understanding Aztec human sacrifice, a problem as old as the first European viewers of this society in the sixteenth century, and of characterizing Aztec gender relations, which was introduced as a field of study in the latter half of the twentieth century. With exhaustive research Caroline Dodds Pennock ties together these two strains of enquiry in a tour-de-force argument that resolves many seeming contradictions and allows the modern Westerner to enter Aztec society with less apprehension!' — Emily Umberger, Arizona State University, USA The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. As bloody priests and brutal warriors, the Aztecs have peopled the pages of history, myth and fiction, their spectacular violence dominating perceptions of their culture and casting a veil over their unique way of life. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their religious violence as a comprehensible element of life and existence, Caroline Dodds Pennock integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative. study of the everyday life of the Aztecs. Caroline Dodds Pennock is Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield, UK. ISBN 978-0-230-28564-4 90101

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