Polygamy and the Rise and Demise of the Aztec Empire by Ross Hassig Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. 186 pp
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 1, S. 279-280
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 121, Heft 1, S. 279-280
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 120, Heft 1, S. 172-173
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Anthropos: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde : international review of anthropology and linguistics : revue internationale d'ethnologie et de linguistique, Band 111, Heft 2, S. 691-692
ISSN: 2942-3139
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 108, Heft 3, S. 620-621
ISSN: 1548-1433
Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership: Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan. Saburo Sugiyama. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 280 pp.
In: California World History Library 7
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women