What is it about?
An interpretation of astronomical knowledge as reflected in the Mesoamerican calendar system in Aztec society
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A pioneer study of the interrelation between astronomy, calendrics and religion in Aztec society, published in 1982
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Interpretation by Johanna Broda on Aztec calendrics and its relation to astronomy, contribution to the important collective volume on Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in hte American Tropics, edited by Anthony F. Aveni and Gary Urton (1982)
Dr. JOHANNA BRODA
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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This page is a summary of: Astronomy,Cosmovisión, and Ideology in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 1982, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1982.tb34260.x.
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