Altepetl

Glyphs representing Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, and Tlacopan, the three primary altepetl of the Aztec Empire.

The altepetl (Classical Nahuatl: āltepētl [aːɬ.ˈté.peːtɬ]) or  modern pronunciation , in pre-Columbian and Spanish conquest-era Aztec society, was the local, ethnically-based political entity, usually translated into English as "city-state".[1] The word is a combination of the Nahuatl words ātl (meaning "water") and tepētl (meaning "mountain"). A characteristic Nahua mode was to imagine the totality of the people of a region or of the world as a collection of altepetl units and to speak of them on those terms.[2] The concept is comparable to Maya cah and Mixtec ñuu.

Examples

References

  1. ↑ Smith 1997 p. 37
  2. ↑ Sousa,et al. The Story of Guadalupe, Stanford: Stanford University Press 1998, p. 36

Further reading

  • García Martínez, Bernardo (2001). "Community Kingdoms: Central Mexico (Nahua)". In David Carrasco. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-19-510815-9. OCLC 44019111.
  • Gibson, Charles (1983) [1964]. The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519–1810. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0912-2. OCLC 9359010.
  • Lockhart, James (1996) [1992]. The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2317-6. OCLC 24283718.
  • Noguez, Xavier (2001). "Altepetl". In David Carrasco. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-19-510815-9. OCLC 44019111.
  • Sousa, Lisa; Poole, Stafford; Lockhart, James, eds. (1998). The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649. UCLA Latin American studies, vol. 84; Nahuatl studies series, no. 5. Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications. ISBN 0-8047-3482-8. OCLC 39455844.
  • Smith, Michael (1997). The Aztecs. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-23015-7.
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