Product details
ISBN
9780292781528
Published
1997-10-01
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Weight
454 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
299
Author
Biographical note
James M. Taggart is Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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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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- 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
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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.
Read more
- 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
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9780292781528
Published
1997-10-01
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Weight
454 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
299
Author