Till death do us part: Unconventional marriages as Aztec political strategy

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-272

  Diel, Lori Boornazian ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNOPOLITICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MARRIAGE; WOMENS STATUS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 40249086942     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: 14691787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536107000181     Document Type: Article

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