Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership: Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan (New Studies in Archaeology) - Hardcover

Sugiyama, Saburo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052178056X ISBN 13: 9780521780568

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 305 Publisher: Camidge. University Press Teotihuacan was one of the Earliest and more POPULOUS preColumbian of Cities and the Feathered Serpent was its vital monument of the cultural figures circa 200 AD This Work Explores the religious strengths and weaknesses and political implications of the pyramid with meticulous and thorough analyses of substantially new excavation data. Challenging the traditional view of the city as a legendary. sacred. or anonymously-governed centre. the book provides significant new insights on the Teotihuacan polity and society. It provides interpretations on the pyramid's location. architecture. sculptures. iconography. mass sacrificial graves and rich symbolic offerings. and concludes that the pyramid commemorated the accession of rulers who were inscribed to govern with military force on behalf of the gods. This...

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Review:

'This is a remarkable achievement and will be a deeply influential contribution to all future discussions of Teotihuacan.' Dr David Freidel, Southern Methodist University

Book Description:

By the third century AD, Teotihuacan had become the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 052178056X
• ISBN 13: 9780521780568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300