Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bandelier's Contribution to the Study of Ancient Mexican Social Organization
In attempting to review the results of Bandelier's investigations of Mexican social organization, it seems best to begin with that element of society which the Indians would have considered the fundamental one. Mexico City was more than a city in our sense of the word. It was rather on the order of a city-state. The Mexicans are continually spoken of as a tribe. We may regard it as absolutely certain that this tribe, numbering a great many thousands of individuals, was really a conglomerate of smaller units. In fact, continual reference' is made in the sources to smaller social groups which seem, in many ways, to be of really fundamental importance. Nearly all authors, for example,8 represent the Aztec tribe at the beginning of its legend ary history as starting off on its migration organized in kinship groups. These kins are worthy of careful attention.
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