Nahuat Myth and Social Structure / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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