Nahuat Myth and Social Structure

by James M. Taggart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292781528
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	10/01/1997
Series:	Texas Pan American Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

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

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