Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Introduction: Performing the City of Sacrifice 1
Ch. 1 City as Symbol in Aztec Thought: Some Clues from the Codex Mendoza 15
Ch. 2 Templo Mayor: The Aztec Vision of Place 49
Ch. 3 The New Fire Ceremony and the Binding of the Years: Tenochtitlan's Fearful Symmetry 88
Ch. 4 The Sacrifice of Tezcatlipoca: To Change Place 115
Ch. 5 Give Me Some Skin: The Charisma of the Aztec Warrior 140
Ch. 6 Cosmic Jaws: We Eat the Gods and the Gods Eat Us 164
Ch. 7 The Sacrifice of Women: The Hearts of Plants and Makers of War Games 188
Ch. 8 When Warriors Became Walls, When the Mountains of Water Crumbled 211
Notes 223
Acknowledgments 272
Index 274

"In City of Sacrifice, Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. And Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his survey of urbanization from antiquity to modernity."--Jacket