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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Observation in research
- Comparative evidence
- Towns
- Cultural participation
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Historical reconstruction
- Organized ceremonial
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zapotec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; 1979
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1933
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Town of Mitla, Valley Zapotec, Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Elsie Clews Parsons
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 570-573)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 36018029
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians/Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca/San Pablo Villa de Mitla (Mexico)