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Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies (2 September 1920 – 25 September 2004) was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the Aztec, Inca and Toltec societies.
Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies (2 September 1920 – 25 September 2004) was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the Aztec, Inca and Toltec societies.
Background. Nigel Davies was born on the 2nd of September, 1920 in Hendon, Barnet, United Kingdom; the son of Claude and Nellie Davies. Education. Nigel Davies educated at Eton, after that he studied at the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1937 and briefly at the University of Potsdam in Berlin before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Nigel Davies, whose solid Mesoamerican reputation is based on books like The Aztecs and The Toltecs, undertook in The Incas the enormous task of sorting and sifting the complex and oftimes contradictory spectrum of articles and books about Inca history and culture; in fact, the resulting book should have a subtitle like A Review of the Scholarship.
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Nigel Davies has 86 books on Goodreads with 1875 ratings. Nigel Davies’s most popular book is The Aztecs, a History.
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Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies (2 September 1920 – 25 September 2004) was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the Aztec, Inca and Toltec societies.
