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Behind the Mexican Mountains /
The author, a renowned anthropologist, wrote this personal travelogue of his sojourn among the Tarahumara Indians in 1930. The book, unpublished in his lifetime, describes the landscape, people, traditions, language, and archaeology of the Chihuahua, Mexico region.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2001.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Railroads, Revolutions, and Schoolteachers; Mexicans, Mines, and American Capitalists; Personalities Emerge from Wooden Indians; Tarahumara Men and Women at Home and at Work; Tarahumara Children and Adults at Play; Curing, Races, and Death Customs among the Tarahumaras; More Drinking Bouts in the Celebrations of "Catholic" Christmas; Officials, Government, and Politics among the Tarahumaras; Liquor, Guns, and Religion in the Mexican Picture; The Mexican Powers: Religious, Civil, and Military; Ready-Made Archaeology, Trips, and Talks.
- Ancient and Modern Cave-Dwellers in the GorgesThe Catholic Mission; Spring, Holy Week, and Archaeology; Pagan Ceremonies and Peyote; The "Genuine" and "Spurious" Values of Tarahumara Culture; The Philistine Spirit of Tarahumara Culture; Adiós Tarahumaras and Campfire Stories of Villa; Miners, Mennonites, Militarism, and the Spirit of Mexico; Notes to Zingg Text; Index.