Behind the Mexican Mountains / / Robert Zingg; ed. by David Carmichael, John Allen Peterson, Howard Campbell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Zingg, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, Howard,
• HerausgeberIn: Campbell, Howard,; Carmichael, David,; Peterson, John Allen,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)

In 1930, anthropologists Robert Zingg and Wendell Bennett spent nine months among the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the least acculturated indigenous societies in North America. Their fieldwork resulted in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico (1935), a classic ethnography still familiar to anthropologists. In addition to this formal work, Zingg also penned a personal, unvarnished travelogue of his sojourn among the Tarahumara. Unpublished in his lifetime, Behind the Mexican Mountains is now available in print for the first time. This colorful account provides a compelling description of the landscape, people, traditions, language, and archaeology of the Tarahumara region. Abandoning the scientific detachment of the observer, Zingg frankly records his reactions to the people and their customs as he vividly evokes the daily experience of doing fieldwork. In the introduction, Howard Campbell examines Zingg's writing in light of current critiques of anthropology as literature. He makes a strong case that although earlier anthropological writing reveals unacceptable cultural biases, it also demonstrates the ongoing importance and vitality of field research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Railroads, Revolutions, and Schoolteachers -- Chapter 2 Mexicans, Mines, and American Capitalists -- Chapter 3 Personalities Emerge from Wooden Indians -- Chapter 4 Tarahumara Men and Women at Home and at Work -- Chapter 5 Tarahumara Children and Adults at Play -- Chapter 6 Curing, Races, and Death Customs among the Tarahumaras -- Chapter 7 More Drinking Bouts in the Celebrations of “Catholic” Christmas -- Chapter 8 Officials, Government, and Politics among the Tarahumaras -- Chapter 9 Liquor, Guns, and Religion in the Mexican Picture -- Chapter 10 The Mexican Powers: Religious, Civil, and Militar -- Chapter 11 Ready-Made Archaeology, Trips, and Talks -- Chapter 12 Ancient and Modern Cave-Dwellers in the Gorges -- Chapter 13 The Catholic Missio -- Chapter 14 Spring, Holy Week, and Archaeology -- Chapter 15 Pagan Ceremonies and Peyote -- Chapter 16 The “Genuine” and “Spurious” Values of Tarahumara Culture -- Chapter 17 The Philistine Spirit of Tarahumara Culture -- Chapter 18 Adiós Tarahumaras and Campfire Stories of Villa -- Chapter 19 Miners, Mennonites, Militarism, and the Spirit of Mexico -- Notes to Zingg Text -- Index