David L. Carrasco is professor of history of religions at Princeton University. Author and editor of many books, he is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.
"We know that power, whatever its origin-sacred, natural, ethnic, contractual, or democratic - is an expression of violence. David Carrasco now demonstrates a shattering, unsentimental truth: civilizations themselves are born and maintained by violence. A brilliant, provocative, timely and eternal book." - Carlos Fuentes, author of A New Time for Mexico and The Years with Laura Diaz"
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