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"The Aztec Economy provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325-1521 AD). It is organized around seven components that recur with other books in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of distribution and commercialization, economic development, and future directions. The Aztec world was complex, hierarchical, and multifaceted, and was in a constant state of demographic growth, recoveries from natural disasters, political alignments and realignments, and aggressive military engagements. The economy was likewise complex and dynamic, and characterized by intensive agriculture, exploitation of non-agricultural resources, utilitarian and luxury manufacturing, wide-scale specialization, merchants, markets, commodity monies, and tribute systems"--

Diachronic and multi-disciplinary perspectives on Mesoamerican ethnicity / by Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chance -- Archaeology and ethnicity in postclassic Mesoamerica / by Barbara L. Stark -- Ethnicity and other identities in the sculptures of Tenochtitlan / by Emily Umberger -- Concepts of ethnicity and class in Aztec-period Mexico / by Frances F. Berdan -- Indigenous ethnicity in colonial central Mexico / by John K. Chance -- Blood sacrifice, curing, and ethnic identity among contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz, Mexico / by Alan R. Sandstrom -- Nahuat ethnicity in a time of agrarian conflict / by James M. Taggart -- Some finishing thoughts and unfinished business / by Alan R. Sandstrom and Frances F. Berdan

This article deals with the arrangement of conquered provinces in the Aztec empire. It has become widely recognized that the empire employed contrasting imperial strategies resulting in tributary and strategic provinces, the latter often tending to insulate the former from potentially dangerous frontiers. Therefore, it is somewhat problematical to find several tributary provinces established on the fringes of the empire and even along hostile borderlands. Explanations for these arrangements are presented from an examination of historical, economic, and military/administrative dimensions of Aztec empire-building.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Concepts -- Introduction -- 1. The Scope of Ethnohistory -- 2. The Reality-Mediation Model -- Part 2: Methods -- Introduction -- 3. Paleography -- Case Study: Some Examples of English Paleography in India -- 4. Calendrics -- Case Study: Placing Two East African Visitors in Sequence -- 5. Linguistic Analysis -- Case Study: Martin Frobisher's Accounts -- 6. Interpretation of Names -- Case Study: Place-Names of Tlaxcala, Mexico -- Case Study: Personal Names in the Early Jewish Community of New York -- 7. Source Analysis -- Case Study in External Analysis: The Horn Papers -- Case Study In Internal Analysis: Hans Staden and Tupinamba Cannibalism -- 8. Quantitative Analysis -- Case Study: Conversion amoung the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Iroquois -- 9. Visual Interpretation -- Case Study: Huron and Timucua Farmers -- 10. Map Interpretation -- Case Study: The Ramusio Plan of Hochelaga -- 11. Tapping Complementary Sources of Information -- Case Study in Complementary Evidence: The Custer Battle -- Case Study in Analogy: Native Mexican Weaving Traditions -- Part 3: Strategies -- Introduction -- 12. Formulating Research Topics and Research Designs -- 13. Working in Archives and Elsewere -- Epilogue -- Reference Material -- Appendix A. Bibliography of Paleography in Selected Languages -- Appendix B. Outline for an Ethical Code in Ethnohistory -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Authors.

"Rethinking the Aztec Economy provides new perspectives on the society and economy of the ancient Aztecs by focusing on goods and their patterns of circulation"--Provided by publisher