Los mensajeros reales y las negociaciones de paz. El concepto de la guerra justa entre los aztecas
Keywords:
Aztec warfare, negotiations, declaration of war, just war
Abstract
This paper deals with a conspicuous practice in the preliminar phases of the Aztec war activities, as performed by royal messengers. They used to deliver a special message and symbolic gifts to certain enemies or rivals. Ethnohistoric sources and literature (this one scarcely) describe it as a warning or a ritual war statement. But a more thoroughly analysis reveals other possible meanings and functions for the said practice, one of them could be related to the conception of a `just war'.Downloads
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2004-01-01
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Olko J. (2004). Los mensajeros reales y las negociaciones de paz. El concepto de la guerra justa entre los aztecas. Revista Española de Antropología Americana, 34, 125-148. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REAA/article/view/REAA0404110125A
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