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Sports, Games, and Gambling in the Aztec World

Sports, Games, and Gambling in the Aztec World

Sports, Games, and Gambling in the Aztec World

Martin Wasserman

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Xlibris
Año de edición:
2017
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9781543413335
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Sports, Games, and Gambling in the Aztec World consists of a series of original essays written by Professor Wasserman over a twenty-year period. These essays review and discuss the psychological dynamics involved in the three major Aztec sports and games: patolli (the dice game), tlachtli (the ball game), and Volador (the game of vertigo). In addition, as part of the collection, there is a creative piece showing that poetry, although not considered a game or sport, was viewed by an honored king in the Aztec world—Nezahualcoyotl or Hungry Coyote—as a human gamble with death itself.

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