Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture

by Elizabeth Moraan and Elizabeth Moran

Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.

Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477310592
• ISBN13: 9781477310595
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"