LIST OF AZTEC BOOKS

Daily Life Of The Aztecs On The Eve Of The Spanish Conquest
By Jacques Soustelle

La Vida Cotidiana De Los Aztecas En Visperas De La Conquista
By Jacques Soustelle

Fifteen Poets Of The Aztec World
By Miguel Leon-Portilla

Aztec, Medicine, Health, And Nutrition
By Bernard R. Ortiz De Montellano

Representing Aztec Ritual Performance, Text, and Image In The Work Of Sahagun
Edited By Eloise Quinones Keber

Codex Chimalpopoca: As Reproduced in the History And Mythology of the Aztecs
Translated by John Bierhorst

Codice Aubin: Manuscrito Azteca de la Biblioteca Royal de Berlin, Anales en Mexicana y geroglificos desde la salida de las tribus de Aztlan
Edited by Antonio Penafiel

A Coloring Book Of Incas, Aztecs, & Mayas and Other Precolumbian Peoples
From Bellerophan Books

Aztecs The Fall Of The Aztec Capital Witness…. The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico
By Richard Platt

Templo Mayor: The Aztec Vision of place
By David Carrasco

Star Gatherers and Wobbling Suns: Astral Symbolism in the Aztec World
By David Carrasco

Religion and Empire: The dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansion
By Arthur Demerest and Conrad Geoffrey

The Misunderstood Case of the Flayed Princess or The Honor of the Aztecs Restored
By Robert Hall

Decipherment and Some Implications of Aztec Numerical Glyphs.
By Herbert R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams

Spiritual Warfare in Mexico: Christianity and the Aztecs
By Jorge J. Klor De Alva

The Work of Bernardino de Sahagun: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth Century Aztec Mexico
Edited By Jorge Klor De Alva, H.B Nicholson and Eloise Quinones Keber

Native Mesoamerican Spirituality: Poems from the Aztec
Edited By Miguel Leon-Portilla

A Survey of Aztec Numbers and Their Uses
By Stanley E. Payne and Michael P. Closs

Codex Telleriano- Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript
By Eloise Quinones Keber

The Fleeting Moment: Cosmogony, Eschatology, and Ethics in Aztec Religion and Society
By Kay A. Read

Regional Variations in the Painted Manuscripts of the Aztec Empire
(Paper presented at symposium, “Strategies of Aztec Empire Building”)
By Elizabeth Hill Boone

The Aztec Templo Mayor
Edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone

The Aztec And Maya Papermakers
By Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen

The Aztecs
By Lucian Biart, 1887

Las Instituciones Aztecas
Por R.J Novelo Ceballos, 1937

La Educacion De Los Aztecas
By Fernando Diaz Infante

La literatura de los Aztecas
Por Gariban F. Angel Maria

Principles of regional and long distance trade in the Aztec Empire
By I.F. Berdan, 1988

Civilizing The Aztecs
By W. Bray, 1977

Aztec arrangement: the social history of pre-spanish Mexico
By R.A.M. Van Zantwijk

How to make an Aztec Book; An investigation into the manufacture of Central Mexican codices
By Cherra Wyllie, 1994

The Aztec Image Of Self And Society
By Miguel Leon-Portilla

Review for use with Rules of the Aztec Language
By Arthur J.O. Anderson

The Aztecs Own Story As Given to Fr. Bernardino de Sahagun
Edited and Translated By Arthur J.O Anderson and Charles E. Dibble

Aztec Religion and Warfare: Past And Present Perspectives
By Elizabeth M. Brumfeil

Aztec Sorcerers in the Seventeenth Century Mexico: The Treatise on Superstitions by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon
Edited and Translated By Michael D. Coe and Gordan Whittaker

Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition
By David Carrasco

The Aztecs
By Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

The Great Temple of The Aztecs: Treasures of Tenchtitlan
By Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Art of Aztec Mexico: Treasures of Tenochtitlan
By H.B. Nicholson

Costume and Control: Aztec Sumptuary Laws
By Patricia Anawalt

Understanding Aztec Human Sacrifice
By Patricia Anawalt

What Price Aztec Pageantry
By Patricia Anawalt

Empirical Aztec Medicine
By Bernard Ortiz de Montellano

Law and Poitics in Aztec Texcoco
By Jerome A. Offner

Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm
Edited by Mary G. Hodge and Michael E. Smith

The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, and Fall of the Aztec Nation
By George C. Vaillant

On this AZTEC INFORMATION web site you will find a lot of information about the word Aztec, Aztecs, Aztlan, and the word that many of you have never heard, Mexica (Meh-shee-kah).

This information is presented by the Mexica Movement. We are an Nican Tlaca (Indigeous) rights educatonal organization for people of Mexican, "Central American", and "Native American" people of the continent that is called "North America".

On this website we are introducing you to all aspects of the word Aztec. We are also listing for you many of the book titles that you can find at your local library or that you can order from your local bookstore or from www.powells.com on the internet. We also list books that are no longer in print or are no longer easily available but that are related to the word Aztec.

There are many books today that are related to the word Aztec, which were written in reference to people who built one of the world's greatest civilizations in the world prior to the European invasion of 1519, the people who were our ancestors, the Mexica. Again we the proper and correct name of the people who are called Aztecs and who built the marvelous city of Tenochtitlan, is Mexica.

We never called ourselves Aztec. Not even the Spaniards called us Aztec. Aztec is the 19th century invention of one Englishman named Kingsborough and one American named Prescott.

Many of the books that we will be presenting to you on this page are books that make up the Mexica Movement's Library, while others will be books and articles that are used as reference in our research.

Because the Mexica Movement is an Indigenous right educational organization, we have made it our responsibility to properly introduce the books and articles related to the Mexica which are improperly called Aztec.

In most cases when we are introduced to the word Aztec we are given the racist and self-serving version of the civilization of the Mexica. We are told that the Mexica of the valley of Mexico who encountered Hernan Cortez and his Spanish soldiers in the beginning of the sixteenth century were inferior to the Europeans.

The sixteenth century Spaniards were left in amasement as they trespassed into the city of Tenochtitlan, where for the first time they saw government assigned street cleaners beautifying a city that was the home of a population of 350,000 people. London was Europe's largest city and it only had a population of about 80,000 people.

Little by little you will see the lies that we have all been fed about the Mexica (Aztecs).

The word Aztec is a real word derived from the word Aztlan. Aztlan was the ancestral northern home of several groups of people that migrated into the valley of Mexico and its surrounding areas. We are talking about the people of Tenochtitlan (Mexica), Tlaxcala, Chalco, Xochimilco, Malinalco, Texcoco, and Huexotzingo. The different waves of these northern migrants all knew that they had a common origin in Aztlan and Chicomoztoc, which was different from the majority of the people in what became known as the Valley of Mexico.

The word Aztec is consistently misused to only identify the Mexica as coming from Aztlan-Chicomoztoc while leaving out the other groups that settled in the valley of Mexico who are also of Aztlan origin.

We must add that the Mexica never called themselves Aztecs, we say this because not one document (primary source) exists today where the Mexica called themselves Aztecs. The names that the Mexica did call themselves were Culhua or Tenochca, which can be found in primary sources like the Florentine Codices. The Florentine Codices are a series of books written in the middle of the sixteenth century by a Spanish priest who was commissioned by the Spanish government to study the every day life of the Mexica.

As you begin researching on the Mexica (“Aztec”) we will point out what authors we recommend and in what books you should begin your research of the word “Aztec”.

More material will be added to this preface to the "Aztec Information Homepage".