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The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

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Description for The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies Paperback. Series: Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 26 b 7 b&w illus., 1 b&w chart/graph. BIC Classification: HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.

Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a “god” (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes three concepts that are foundational to Aztec religion—teotl (god), teixiptla (localized embodiment of a god), and tlaquimilolli (sacred bundles containing precious objects)—to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world.

In The Fate of Earthly Things, Molly Bassett draws on ethnographic fieldwork, linguistic analyses, visual culture, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
Series
Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477309865
SKU
V9781477309865
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Molly H. Bassett
MOLLY H. BASSETT is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a research affiliate with the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology (IDIEZ) in Zacatecas, Mexico.

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