Nahua : NU46.

Included WorkLewis, Oscar, 1914-1970 Life in a Mexican village, Tepoztlan restudied.
Included WorkBeltrán, Alberto.
Included WorkLewis, Oscar, 1914-1970 Tepoztlán, village in Mexico.
Included WorkRedfield, Robert, 1897-1958 Tepoztlán, a Mexican village.
Included WorkSandstrom, Alan R. Culture Summary, Nahua.
Included WorkSandstrom, Alan R. Corn is our blood, culture and ethnic identity in a contemporary Aztec Indian village.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Middle America and the Caribbean. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Life in a Mexican village, Tepoztlan restudied / Oscar Lewis; with drawings by Alberto Beltrán -- Tepoztlán, village in Mexico / Oscar Lewis -- Tepoztlan, a Mexican village, a study of folk life / Robert Redfield -- Culture summary, Nahua ; Corn is our blood, culture and ethnic identity in a contemporary Aztec Indian village / Alan R. Sandstrom.
Scope and content This collection of 5 documents covers historical and community-level ethnographic information on Nahua villagers living in Tepoztlán and one unidentified municipality in Huasteca. The Nahua are Native Americans who trace their ethnic origin and identity to the Nahuatl-speaking Aztecs. More commonly, the Nahua refer to themselves as Mexicano (derived from the ancient Nahuatl word Mexica). Sandstrom discusses the dynamics of culture and ethnic identity among the Nahua based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1970-1990. He argues that the Nahua have continued to exhibit linguistic and cultural features that distinguish them from many other ethnic groups of modern Mexico, despite many years of Spanish conquest and a series of government attempts to incorporate them into the dominant Mestizo culture. Other documents provide firsthand accounts of village life and aspects of culture in a Tepoztlán municipality as observed over three research periods spanning 1926-1956. The first was 1926-1917, when anthropologist Redfield conducted research on this community. The second was 1943-1948 when Lewis, together with a team of graduate students and associate researchers, lived in Tepoztlán for about a year to restudy the community. The last research period was 1956 when Lewis revisited the community to supplement his previous study by examining major changes that occurred since the first fieldwork. Together, these four documents provide a comprehensive account of culture and society among contemporary Aztec Indian villagers.
General noteTitle from Web page (viewed Nov. 4, 2011).
General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2010 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Tepoztlan, NU37.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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