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Corn Is Our Blood: Culture And Ethnic Identity In A Contemporary Aztec Indian Village., Alan Sandstrom

Alan R. Sandstrom

This book [first published in 1991 by University of Oklahoma Press] 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 …