Rutgers Scholar Receives Prize for Revolutionizing How We Look at Aztec Society
December 15, 2020
December 15, 2020
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Dec. 15 (TNSRes) -- Rutgers University issued the following news:
When Camilla Townsend set out to tell the story of the Aztecs, the Indigenous population of central Mexico whose government was wiped out following the arrival of Spanish explorers, she began a project that challenged previous beliefs about their lives.
For 500 years, understanding of the Aztec people was based on accounts written by their conquerors, or sometimes by Indigenous . . .
When Camilla Townsend set out to tell the story of the Aztecs, the Indigenous population of central Mexico whose government was wiped out following the arrival of Spanish explorers, she began a project that challenged previous beliefs about their lives.
For 500 years, understanding of the Aztec people was based on accounts written by their conquerors, or sometimes by Indigenous . . .