Nahuat Myth and Social Structure / / James M. Taggart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Taggart, James M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Nahuat Orthography --; 1. Introduction --; Part I. The People --; 2. The Nahuat --; 3. Huitzilan de Serdan --; 4. Santiago Yaonahuac --; 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 s Nature --; 12. Conclusions --; Appendix 1. Story Summaries --; Appendix 2. Profiles off Nahuat Storytellers --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292761797; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/781528
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James M. Taggart.

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.