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Book Review
Caribbean and Latin America
| Saburo Sugiyama. Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership: Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan. (New Studies in Archeology.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 280. $95.00.
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| Saburo Sugiyama has produced the first truly fresh examination of the great Mesoamerican city-center of Teotihuacán in many years, and it is both intriguing and absorbing. Focusing on one of the city's three most important monuments—the Feathered Serpent Pyramid of the Ciudadela complex—this is without question a study that will remain significant for its innovative approaches, content, and conclusions, whether or not these ultimately yield a sound new understanding of the ancient city and its polity. |
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