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- Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The Culture of Marginality Among the Teeneks of Tantoyuca
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Mesoamerican Worlds Series
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Now available in English, Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore explores the highly unusual worldview of the Teenek people of Tantoyuca, Veracruz, whose self-deprecating cosmology diverges quite radically from patterns of positive cultural identity among other indigenous groups in Mexico. The Teeneks speak of themselves as dirty, dumb, ignorant, and fearful, a vocabulary that serves to justify the Teeneks' condition of social and spatial marginality in relation to their mestizo neighbors.
However, as Anath Ariel de Vidas argues in this masterful ethnography, this self-denigration - added to the absence among the Teeneks of emblematic Indian features such as traditional costumes, agricultural rituals, specific ceremonies, or systems of religious cargos or offices - are not synonymous with collective anomie. Rather, as Ariel de Vidas demonstrates, their seeming ontological acceptance of a marginal social and economic condition is - in its own peculiar way - a language of indigenous resistance.
Table of Contents
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- Figures, Maps, Tables, and Myths
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xv
- Phonetic Transcription of Veracruzan Teenek
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Part One: The Teenek Universe
- pp. 17-128
- 2. Teenek Alliances
- pp. 69-99
- 3. A Problem of Boundaries
- pp. 101-125
- Conclusion to Part One
- pp. 127-128
- Part Two: Messages From the Underworld
- pp. 129-259
- 4. The Reality of the Baatsik'
- pp. 133-154
- 5. Teenek Etiology
- pp. 155-225
- 6. Teenek and Baatsik': Terms of Coexistence
- pp. 227-246
- Conclusion to Part Two
- pp. 247-259
- 7. "Hell Is Other People"
- pp. 265-320
- 8. The Space of Memory
- pp. 321-373
- Conclusion to Part Three
- pp. 375-385
- Conclusion: The Culture of Marginality
- pp. 387-393
- Glossary of Acronyms and Foreign Terms
- pp. 407-410
- Bibliography
- pp. 411-421
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870818585
Related ISBN(s)
9780870817700
MARC Record
OCLC
76874562
Pages
456
Launched on MUSE
2012-09-21
Language
English
Open Access
No