This book offers views of Aztec lives and their interactions in rituals, markets, courts, and on the battlefield.

Frances Berdan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino.  She is the author or co-author of fourteen books on aspects of Aztec culture, most recently Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Cambridge, 2014). Her 4-volume co-authored The Codex Mendoza (1992) won the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1992.

Part I. Lives: 1. The Emperor; 2. The priest; 3. The featherworker; 4. The merchant; 5. The farmer; 6. The slave; Part II. Intersecting Lives: 7. A child is born; 8. Marketday in Tlatelolco; 9. Judgement day; 10. A battle far afield; Epilogue; Glossary; References; Index.