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Corn is our blood: culture and ethnic identity in a contemporary Aztec Indian village
University of Oklahoma Press • 206 • Published In 1991 • Pages: xxvii, 420 , [16] of plates
By: Sandstrom, Alan R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book discusses dynamics of culture and ethnic identity among Nahua Indians who claim a direct ethnic descent from the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. It shows that the Nahua 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. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author identifies two broad local and national processes that accounted for this continuity. One of these concerns participation in traditional religious ceremonies which produced ancient Aztec ideas about nature and people. The other relates to the benefits villagers hoped to obtain in ethnicity (i.e., in being Indian) in the context of their desire to win land claims and access government provided social services.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Ethos
- Cereal agriculture
- Community structure
- Ethnic stratification
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Research and development
- Missions
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Political movements
- Real property
- Education system
- Sociocultural trends
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nahua
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alan R. Sandstrom
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-401) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91050307
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nahuas--Ethnic identity/Nahua mythology/Nahuas--Social life and customs/Villages--Mexico--Veracruz-Llave (State)--Case studies/Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State)--Social life and customs