City of Sacrifice: Violence From the Aztec Empire to the Modern Americas by Davíd Carrasco

City of Sacrifice: Violence From the Aztec Empire to the Modern Americas

Davíd Carrasco

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive hum...

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