Titlebook: Bonds of Blood; Gender, Lifecycle, a Caroline Dodds Pennock (Lecturer in Early Modern H Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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2947-9061 em, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.978-0-230-28564-4978-0-230-58233-0Series ISSN 2947-9061 Series E-ISSN 2947-907X

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Book 2008The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh interpretation of gender with an innovative study of the everyday life of the Aztecs.

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Living with Death,ors.. Perceptibly morbid preoccupations mingled with a sense of shared identity and principle, through which the fated victims were implicated in a reciprocal relationship of shared honour and obligation. The sacrificial fate of the captives is made plain, their impending violent death explicitly an

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Birth and Blood, to give birth’.. This was a defining moment in the life of any woman — a time when death and life would meet in her person, when she would risk her life in confronting the goddess Cihuacoatl and in bringing her child into the world. She did not face the challenge alone, however, for every woman, fr

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Growing Up,their weaning, they are mentioned only in passing, but the occasional hints suggest a picture of affection and tolerance. Aztec babies were indulged in their messy games, tottering around unsteadily, piling up earth and potsherds, and playing with dung. The first words of a child were greeted with j

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