Arsenault, Lou Manuel, author.

Of Enemies & Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic.

[Place of publication not identified] : Becoming Press, 2026.

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"Situated deep within the ontological turn, this book brings together the philosophical anthropology of Descola and Viveiros de Castro, with the discourse that runs, through Heidegger, towards the world-building technics of Yuk Hui. Through a detailed study of the sacrificial and symbolic practices of Warfare & Hunting, Lou Manuel Arsenault uses these philosophies as tools to uncover a Cosmotechnic of the Aztecs. In the cosmology and way of life of Nahuatl-speaking populations of the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding regions during the post-classical period, Warfare & Hunting were inseparable ritual practices within which the distinction between beings-Human, Jaguar, and Deer, or Aztec, Mimixcoa, or Mother and Enemy-became blurred. Articulated here as an Aztec Cosmo-Technique of identification, it is argued that these ritual practices enacted a world with its own destiny, one which was trampled by colonial violence. Yet this destiny-Batalla's "Deep Mexico"-lies dormant, buried underground, buried in the literature, and in the archaeological record; this book works to unearth it."-- provided by distributor.

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Anti-imperialist movements.
Cosmology.
Indigenous labor.
Philosophy.
Anti-impérialisme.
Cosmologie.
Travailleurs autochtones.
Philosophie.
cosmology.
philosophy.

Creative Nonfiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Castañeda, Victor G. García, contributor.
Sbordoni, Alessandro, editor.
Elise, Claire, editor.
Library Stack, distributor.