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Author | : William Madsen |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-08-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1477301305 |
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose lives were dominated by supernaturalism, and who observed with only slight modification much of their Aztec heritage—this story bears out the anthropological principle that innovations are most likely to be accepted when they are useful, communicable, and compatible with established tradition. Nowhere is the Indian genius for combining the old and the new better exemplified than in the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe came to fulfill the role formerly played by the pagan goddess Tonantzin and of how Christian saints replaced the Aztec gods. At the time of this study, the Tecospans still called the Catholic Virgin Tonantzin, but their concept of the mother goddess had changed profoundly since Aztec times. Tonantzin the Pagan, a hideous goddess with claws on her hands and feet and with snakes entwining her face, wore a necklace of hearts, hands, and skulls to represent her insatiable appetite for corpses. Tonantzin the Catholic—also called Guadalupe—is a beautiful and benevolent mother deity who repeatedly stays God’s anger against her Mexican children and answers the prayers of the poorest Indian, with no thought of return. In Tecospa the road to social recognition lay in the performance of religious works, and the neglect of ritual obligation subjected both the individual and the community to the anger of supernaturals who punished with illness or other misfortune. Religion was inextricably a part of every phase of life, and it is the whole life of the Aztecan that is recorded here: fiesta, clothing, food, agricultural practices, courtship, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, death, witchcraft and its cures, medical practices and attitudes, houses and home life, ethics, and the hot-cold complex that classifies everything in the Tecospan universe from God to Bromo-Seltzer. With a marked simplicity of style and language William Madsen has produced a profoundly significant anthropological study that is delightful reading from the first sentence to the last. The drawings, the work of a ten-year-old Tecospan lad, are remarkable for their penetrating insight into the culture.
Author | : Victoria Tatum |
Publisher | : Rain Publishing |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Children of gay parents |
ISBN | : 9781897381052 |
Author | : Maggie Hamand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781909954458 |
A genre-busting, progressive Vatican thriller. What happens when everything you know is thrown into doubt? And you're the Pope? The recently elected Irish Pope Patrick has plans for his future Church. Then he is attacked in St Peter's Square. Cardinals turn against him. Shocking revelations threaten his traditional status and his faith. In this novel where nothing is as it seems, Catholicism and modern morality are held in tension. Pope Patrick has to face challenges and make choices he could never have imagined.
Author | : Jenna Jacob |
Publisher | : Jenna Jacob |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1952111277 |
She’s young, innocent—and his enemy… but she might be the answer to his problems. Austin Carson has zero desire to find a bride or have babies. He’s too busy working the cattle ranch he hopes to inherit one day to settle down and procreate. Besides, his track record with women isn’t the best… But when his surly neighbor’s alluring and way too young granddaughter, Paige Nelson, arrives for a visit, Austin’s life takes a sexy turn for the forbidden he can’t refuse. And once he’s tasted the skittish beauty’s innocence…one nibble will never be enough. But there’s a hitch. The Carsons and the Nelsons have been feuding for a century and a half. If Austin wants Paige for more than a night, he’ll have to bury the hatchet and face his fears so he can prove he’s the cowboy of her dreams.
Author | : Jennie Lucas |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2020-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1488059446 |
An Italian widower is shocked to learn he has a surrogate—and that he loves her—in this contemporary romance by a UAS Today–bestselling author. She’s never been touched . . . But she’s carrying his heir! Seven months pregnant, innocent surrogate Rosalie realizes she can’t bear to give away the child she’s carrying for a childless Italian couple. She flies to Venice to beg forgiveness, only to discover brooding Alex Falconeri is a widower . . . and he has no idea she is expecting his baby! Alex can’t throw away this chance to know his surprise heir. But Rosalie is torturously sweet temptation . . . After his cold, loveless marriage, Alex has sworn he will not marry again. But he’s starting to think he’ll do anything to make Rosalie his!
Author | : Michelle Love |
Publisher | : Blessings For All SC |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1648083382 |
Enjoy this billionaire baby romance at a terrific discount. Having a stranger's baby wasn't a thing I'd ever dreamt of doing... As a busy college student, I didn't have time for the opposite sex. The center of my world was my approaching career. Until he came along. Stimulating. Virile. Obsessive. I was supposed to have his baby and nothing more. Only, he wanted much more than I could give. His slightest touch turned me into a puddle of melting flesh. If I allowed it, he would own me-body and soul. I would give him his heir, but never my heart. Keywords: billionaire, bad boy, baby romance, steamy romance, contemporary romance, forced marriage, love books, love stories, new adult, alpha male, romance, action, adventure, steamy romance, small-town secrets, hot, alpha hero, sweet romance. free book, free novels, sweet romance, romantic novels, sexually romantic books, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happily ever after.
Author | : Raffaello Sanzio |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520050877 |
Author | : Tom McDonough |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"As Father Jack Sullivan shambles through his quotidian duties at the Stella Maris Church in Brooklyn, he is prey to the temptations of his not-so-solid flesh. Not least of these temptations is Sister Marian, the demi-liberated nun who will become his lover. Slightly off-center stands the almost wholly nonverbal little altar boy, whose purity attests to the terrestrial nature of heaven and hell. The subject of the book is, finally Sin -- and by extension, guilt -- a preoccupation most notably marked by the absence of discourse or reflection about it. This is a wild and joyous psalm of blasphemy and beatitude, madness and miracle."--Jacket flap.
Author | : Jennie Lucas |
Publisher | : Harlequin / SB Creative |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2020-03-01 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 4596069425 |
I can’t believe I’m pregnant! Ellie thinks, devastated. Today is her wedding day, but the father of her baby isn’t her groom. Three months ago, on the night of Carnival in Rio, Ellie shared a bed with Diogo Serrador, who was born in the slums and rose to become CEO to one of the world’s largest companies. The young millionaire is every woman’s dream man. But after spending the night together, he abandoned Ellie and, in her shock, she decided to marry another man. Is it really right to marry him? Then Diogo suddenly appears before her!
Author | : Gina Marchetti |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-02-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780520914629 |
Hollywood films about Asians and interracial sexuality are the focus of Gina Marchetti's provocative new work. While miscegenation might seem an unlikely theme for Hollywood, Marchetti shows how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema. The author begins with a discussion of D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, then considers later films such as Shanghai Express, Madame Butterfly, and the recurring geisha movies. She also includes some fascinating "forgotten" films that have been overlooked by critics until now. Marchetti brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and argues persuasively that these media help to perpetuate social and racial inequality in America. Noting how social norms and taboos have been simultaneously set and broken by Hollywood filmmakers, she discusses the "orientalist" tensions underlying the construction of American cultural identity. Her book will be certain to interest readers in film, Asian, women's, and cultural studies.