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Nahuat Myth and Social Structure: Texas Pan American Series

Autor James M. Taggart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1997
First published in 1983, Nahuat Myth and Social Structure brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292781528
ISBN-10: 0292781520
Pagini: 299
Ilustrații: 15 Line Drawings, 1 Map, 29 Tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Texas Pan American Series


Notă biografică

James M. Taggart is Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Nahuat Orthography
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. The People
    • 2. The Nahuat
    • 3. Huitzilan de Serdán
    • 4. Santiago Yaonáhuac
  • Part II. A Common Cosmology
    • 5. Space and Time
    • 6. Nahuat and Hispanics
  • Part III. Differences in Parallel Stories
    • 7. Narrative Acculturation
    • 8. Men Who Enter the Forest
    • 9. Lightning-bolts Who Punish Sin
    • 10. Adam and Eve
    • 11. Men : Women : : Culture : Nature
    • 12. Conclusions
  • Appendix 1. Story Summaries
  • Appendix 2. Profiles of Nahuat Storytellers
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.