02147nam a22003138a 4500 CR9780511777967 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511777967 (ebook) 9780521518116 (hardback) 9780521732079 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda F1219.76.R57 C55 2010 972/.02 22 Clendinnen, Inga, author. The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society : Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture / [electronic resource] Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, and war was its dynamic. In the title work of this compelling collection of essays, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the sequence of experiences through which young Aztec warriors were brought to embrace their duty to their people, to their city, and to the forces that moved the world and the heavens. Subsequent essays explore the survival of Yucatec Maya culture in the face of Spanish conquest and colonisation, the insidious corruption of an austere ideology translated into dangerously novel circumstances, and the multiple paths to the sacred constructed by 'defeated' populations in sixteenth-century Mexico. The collection ends with Clendinnen's transition to the colonial history of her own country: a close and loving reading of the 1841 expedition journal of George Augustus Robinson, appointed 'Protector of Aborigines' in the Port Philip District of Australia. Print version: 9780521518116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777967 Cambridge Books Online 236454 236454