Books written by Frances F. Berdan

  • Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory

    i as in English see chilli (CHEE-lee): chile o as in English so tochtli (TOCH-tlee): rabbit (Note: o and u often appear ... -tek'w-SO-ma) is variously seen as Moctezuma, Montecuzoma, Mohtecuzoma, Motecuhzoma, and Montezuma, ...

  • El Códice mendocino: nuevas perspectivas
    El Códice mendocino: nuevas perspectivas

    ... en las formas que dejan de ser tan sintéticas y a la vez se emplea una técnica de perspectiva lineal en la que se ... importante cuando nos acercamos a las imágenes producidas por artistas indios durante la colonia: la adopción de ...

  • The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations
    The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations

    Based on the latest research and lavishly illustrated, this book reveals the Aztecs to have created a civilization of sophistication and finesse.

  • Everyday Life in the Aztec World
    Everyday Life in the Aztec World

    In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico.

  • Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory

    This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, encompassing topics of history, economy, social life, political relations, and religious beliefs and ceremonies.

  • Everyday Life in the Aztec World
    Everyday Life in the Aztec World

    This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield.

  • Aztec Imperial Strategies
    Aztec Imperial Strategies

    dissertation by Holt ( n.d. ) contains the first comprehensive analysis of Aztec expansion . Hassig's book ( 1988 ) contains the most detailed discussion yet published on Aztec warfare and militarism ( see also Gorenstein 1973 ; Davies ...

  • The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations
    The Aztecs: Lost Civilizations

    Based on the latest research and lavishly illustrated, this book reveals the Aztecs to have created a civilization of sophistication and finesse.

  • The Aztec Economy
    The Aztec Economy

    It is organized around seven components that recur with other Elements in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of distribution and commercialization, economic ...