Nahuat Myth and Social Structure

James M. Taggart (Author)

9780292781528

Paperback / softback, published 1 October 1997

299 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg

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.

• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Nahuat Orthography
• 1. Introduction
• Part I. The People
  • 2. The Nahuat
  • 3. Huitzilan de SerdÁ
    n
  • 4. Santiago YaonÁ
    huac
• 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