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Nahuat Myth and Social Structure / James M. Taggart.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas Pan American SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292761797
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.014
LOC classification:
  • F1221.N3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)