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AZTEC Religion and Warfare: Past and Present Perspectives

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THE AZTECS: PEOPLE OF THE SUN. By ALFONSO CASO. Translated by DUNHAMLOWELL. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. First paperback printing, 1988. Pp. 123. $16.95 paper.)
SMOKE AND MIST: MESOAMERICAN STUDIES IN MEMORY OF THELMA D. SULLIVAN. 2 volumes. Edited by JOSSERANDJ. KATHRYN and DAKIN.KAREN (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 402, 1988. Pp. 763.)
THE HUMAN BODY AND IDEOLOGY: CONCEPTS OF THE ANCIENT NAHUAS. 2 volumes. By ALFREDO LOPEZ AUSTIN. Translated by DE MONTELLANOTHELMA ORTIZ and DE MONTELLANO.BERNARD ORTIZ (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988. Pp. 449, 315. $65.00.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel*
Affiliation:
Albion College
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 1990 , pp. 248 - 259
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Copyright © 1990 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. For overviews of this issue, see James Boone, Other Tribes, Other Scribes: Symbolic Anthropology in the Comparative Study of Cultures, Histories, Religions, and Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982); James Clifford, “Introduction: Partial Truths,” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, edited by J. Clifford and G. E. Marcus (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986); and Michel De Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984).

2. Important discussions of the relationship between conceptions of the human body and social structure include Victor Turner, “Encounter with Freud: The Making of a Comparative Symbologist,” in The Making of Psychological Anthropology, edited by G. D. Spindler (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978); Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction (New York: Random House, 1978); and Susan Kus, “Taking Symbols Seriously,” paper presented at the CNRS/NSF Seminar “Symbolic, Structural, and Semiotic Approaches in Archaeology,” Bloomington, Ind., 5–10 Oct. 1987.

3. Practical reason is a term coined by Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). Rational choice theory is discussed in A. Heath, Rational Choice and Social Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).