Winds of Ixtepeji

, by Kearney, Michael

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ISBN: 9780881332100 | 0881332100
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/1986

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Foreword

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(1)

The Town of Ixtepeji

(25)

Cultural and Geographic Setting

(5)

Man and the Land

(4)

Settlement Pattern and Housing

(2)

Health and Illness

(2)

Diet

(1)

Formal Organization

(4)

Arriving at Consensus

(2)

Barrio Organization

(2)

Intercommunity Relations

(3)

Town History and Myth

(16)

Pre-Columbian Period

(1)

Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods

(1)

Twentieth Century

(7)

The Myth

(4)

Recent History

(2)

World View in Ixtepeji

(3)

Basic Propositions

(2)

The Concepts of Aire and Susto: Symbolic Representations of Perceived Social and Geographic Environment

(13)

Aire

(8)

Susto, Spirits, and Death

(4)

Summary

(1)

Appearances Cannot Be Trusted

(11)

The Concept of Engano

(3)

Childhood Insecurity and Engano

(3)

Ilusion

(5)

Thou Shalt Covet

(11)

Muina and Chipil

(4)

The Social Meaning of Food Sharing

(7)

The Passage of Time

(8)

Historic and Cosmic Time

(1)

Concepts of Aging

(5)

Speech Patterns and Time Orientation

(2)

The Burden of Life

(7)

Attitudes toward Municipal Cargos

(2)

Religious Attitudes

(1)

Fatalism

(4)

Everyone Must Drink

(14)

Folk Beliefs about Drinking

(1)

Drinking Patterns

(3)

Etiological Factors

100

(1)

Drinking as a Means of Transcendence

101

(2)

Ambivalence toward Drinking

103

(1)

Case Histories

104

(2)

Drinking and Religious Conversion

106

(3)

Summary

109

(1)

La Llorona: Symbol of Family and Interpersonal Relations

110

(6)

Adjusting to a Hostile Environment

116

(7)

Defensive Strategies

116

(4)

Emotions and Philosophy of Life

120

(3)

Prospects for Change

123

(11)

Change in the Concept of Change

123

(3)

A Strategy for Development

126

(4)

The Beginning of Innovation and Cooperation

130

(4)

Summary

134

(1)

Glossary

135

(2)

References

137

(3)

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