James M. Taggart

Nahuat Myth and Social Structure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780292781528
• ISBN-10: 0292781520
• Artikelnr.: 32091094

Autorenporträt

James M. Taggart is Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. A Note on Nahuat Orthography
3. 1. Introduction
4. Part I. The People
* 2. The Nahuat
* 3. Huitzilan de Serdán
* 4. Santiago Yaonáhuac
5. Part II. A Common Cosmology
* 5. Space and Time
* 6. Nahuat and Hispanics
6. 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 : Nature
* 12. Conclusions
7. Appendix 1. Story Summaries
8. Appendix 2. Profiles of Nahuat Storytellers
9. Notes
10. Bibliography
11. Index