Thunder Doesn't Live Here Anymore: The Culture of Marginality Among the Teeneks of Tantoyuca

by Anath Ariel de Vidas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870817701
• ISBN13: 9780870817700
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"