Convenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality (Civilization of the American Indian Series) - Tapa blanda

Monaghan, John

 
9780806131924: Convenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
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ISBN 10: 0806131926 ISBN 13: 9780806131924
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Sinopsis

In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the community of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting.

 

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Acerca del autor

John Monaghan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and coauthor of Continuity of Principles of Highland Maya Social Organization.

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Editorial
University of Oklahoma Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0806131926
ISBN 13 
9780806131924
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
412
Contacto del fabricante
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780806127620: The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality: v. 219 (Civilization of American Indian S.)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0806127627 ISBN 13:  9780806127620
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995
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