Sacred Consumption Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture



Elizabeth Morán, "Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture"
English | ISBN: 1477310592 | 2016 | 156 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
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 humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into sacred elements within particular rituals, while food in turn gave meaning to the ritual performance.
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