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Rethinking the Aztec Economy, Paperback / softback Book

Rethinking the Aztec Economy Paperback / softback

Edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Frances Berdan, Michael E. Smith

Part of the Amerind Studies in Archaeology series

Paperback / softback

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With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires.

Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica.

In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 synthesizes our current understanding of the Aztec economy and singles out the topics of urbanism and provincial merchant activity for more detailed analysis.

Part 2 brings new data and a new conceptual approach that applies insights from behavioral economics to Nahua and Aztec rituals and social objects.

Contributors also discuss how high-value luxury goods, such as feather art, provide insights about both economic and sacred concepts of value in Aztec society.

Part 3 reexamines the economy at the Aztec periphery.

The volume concludes with a synthesis on the scale, integration, and nature of change in the Aztec imperial economy. Rethinking the Aztec Economy illustrates how superficially different kinds of social contexts were in fact integrated into a single society through the processes of a single economy.

Using the world of goods as a crucial entry point, this volume advances scholarly understanding of life in the Aztec world.

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