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This book 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.

Table of Contents
  • 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

Nahuat Myth and Social Structure

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780292781528, 978-0292781528
      ISBN10: 0292781520
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book 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.

      Table of Contents
      • 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

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