Book

Mitla, town of the souls and other Zapoteco-speaking pueblos of Oaxaca, Mexico

University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1970 • Pages: 19, 590 , 51 plates

By: Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.

Abstract

This document is a rich description of Zapotec lifeways, abundantly annotated with comparative material on non-Zapotec peoples. Category 171 was used for the latter material, including information the Aztecs, which is presented more as distributional evidence than as historical data. Category 184 was used for material on variability among Zapotec communities. The author's thorough familiarity with her subject, acquired in the course of three visits in 1929-1933, has permitted her to employ an expository style which requires the particularly close attention of the researcher. Much of the material is presented so as to form a verbal approximation of a visual image; new data on topics which appear to have been previously covered is thus sprinkled throughout this series of vignettes.

HRAF PubDate

2009

Region

Middle America and the Caribbean

Sub Region

Central Mexico

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Ethnologist-5

Analyst

Jan Simpson ; 1979

Coverage Date

1900-1933

Coverage Place

Town of Mitla, Valley Zapotec, Oaxaca, Mexico

Notes

by Elsie Clews Parsons

Includes bibliographical references (p. 570-573)

LCCN

36018029

LCSH

Zapotec Indians/Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca/San Pablo Villa de Mitla (Mexico)