Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico

by Ross Hassig

Based on their enormously complex calendars that recorded cycles of many kinds, the Aztecs and other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations are generally believed to have had a cyclical, rather than linear, conception of time and history. This boldly revisionist book challenges that understanding. Ross Hassig offers convincing evidence that for the Aztecs time was predominantly linear, that it was manipulated by the state as a means of controlling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029273140X
• ISBN13: 9780292731400
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"