Nahuat Myth and Social Structure (Texas Pan American Series)

University of Texas Press, 1983. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6x1x9. 1983 signed and inscribed first edition, University of Texas Press (Austin, Texas), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall green cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, silver lettering to spine, index, x, 287 pp. On the blank front free-endpaper, nicely signed and inscribed by the author to prior owner Murdo J. MacLeod (b. 1935), a Scottish historian of Latin America, who published extensively on the history of colonial-era Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly rubbed, chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~S~ [2.0P] 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. James M. Taggart is the Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology, Emeritus, at Franklin and Marshall College and taught for five years at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City. His fieldwork in Mexico, Spain, and the Hispanic Southwest has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Lewis Audenreid Fund of Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story and The Rain Gods' Rebellion: The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency (2020). 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.