The winds of Ixtepeji
Subtitle: world view and society in a Zapotec town.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Zapotec Indians; Ixtepeji, Mexico
Notes: Bibliography: p. 137-140.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- The town of Ixtepeji. Cultural and geographic setting -- Man and the land -- Settlement pattern and housing -- Health and illness -- Diet -- Formal organization -- Arriving at consensus -- Barrio organization -- Intercommunity relations -- Town history and myth. Pre-columbian period -- Colonial and post-colonial periods -- Twentieth century -- The myth -- Recent history -- World view in Ixtepeji. Basic propositions -- The concepts of aire and susto : symbolic representations of perceived social and geographic environment. Aire -- Susto, spirits, and death -- Summary -- Appearances cannot be trusted. The concept of engaño -- Childhood insecurity and engaño -- Ilusión -- Thou shalt covet. Muina and chípil -- The social meaning of food sharing -- The passage of time. Historic and cosmic time -- Concepts of aging -- Speech patterns and time orientation -- The burden of life. Attitudes toward municipal cargos -- Religious attitudes -- Fatalism -- Everyone must drink. Folk beliefs about drinking -- Drinking patterns -- Etiological factors -- Drinking as a means of transcendence -- Ambivalence toward drinking -- Case histories -- Drinking and religious conversion -- Summary -- La liorona : symbol of family and interpersonal relations -- Adjusting to a hostile environment. Defensive strategies -- Emotions and philosophy of life -- Prospects for change. Change in the concept of change -- A strategy for development -- The beginning of innovation and cooperation -- Summary -- Glossary.