Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
299 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 Oct 1997
ISBN:9780292781528
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.
James M. Taggart is Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology at Franklin and
Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Nahuat Orthography
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The People
- 2. The Nahuat
- 3. Huitzilan de Serdán
- 4. Santiago Yaonáhuac
- 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 : Nature
- 12. Conclusions
- Appendix 1. Story Summaries
- Appendix 2. Profiles of Nahuat Storytellers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
