Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs, but not as you know them

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The Hedgehog and the Fox

92 episodes

7 months ago

Podcasts hosted by George Miller, presenting fresh ideas and stimulating conversations on a wide variety of subjects, with a particular focus is on books published by university presses.

Some of these interviews may present bold new theories (in the spirit of the hedgehog) while others may focus in detail on something quite small, even overlooked (in the spirit of the fox). The driving forces are curiosity and the desire to communicate original thinking in an engaging, accessible way.

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Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs, but not as you know them

The Hedgehog and the Fox

38 minutes 26 seconds

5 years ago

Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs, but not as you know them

We all know the Aztecs practised human sacrifice, a fact that so predominates in popular impressions of them that almost everything else about them is cast in its shadow. Yet as my guest in this episode, Camilla Townsend, writes in her latest book, The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs: "The Aztecs would never recognize themselves in the picture of their world that exists in the books and movies we have made." So who were the Aztecs really?

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