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City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
City of Sacrifice The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization
Author: David Carrasco
At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence agai...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807046425
ISBN-10: 0807046426
Publication Date: 12/15/1999
Pages: 279
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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