The Virgin's Children : : Life in an Aztec Village Today /

The Virgin's Children : : Life in an Aztec Village Today / / William Madsen.

An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose live...

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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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Madsen, William,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1960
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction and Acknowledgments
  • The Contents
  • The Illustrations
  • 1 Aztec Heritage
  • 2 Conquest and Conversion
  • 3 Place of the Yellow Stones
  • 4 "My House Is Yours"
  • 5 Children of Fate
  • 6 Parents and Godparents
  • 7 The Mayor and His Neighbors
  • 8 God the Destroyer
  • 9 Pancho and the Virgins
  • 10 Hot and Cold
  • 11 Evil Air
  • 12 Witchcraft
  • 13 The Other Life
  • 14 The Old and the New
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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