Sports Games and Gambling in the Aztec World

<p>Sports Games and Gambling in the Aztec World consists of a series of original essays written by Professor Wasserman over a twenty-year period. These essays review and discuss the psychological dynamics involved in the three major Aztec sports and games: patolli (the dice game) tlachtli (the ball game) and Volador (the game of vertigo). In addition as part of the collection there is a creative piece showing that poetry although not considered a game or sport was viewed by an honored king in the Aztec world—Nezahualcoyotl or Hungry Coyote—as a human gamble with death itself.</p>