San Bernardino Contla: Marriage and Family Structure in a Tlaxcalan Municipio

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Author: Nutini, Hugo G inscribed to George M Foster Year: 1968 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Place: Pittsburgh Description: 420 pages with six maps (some folding), seventeen tables (some folding), five diagrams, appendices, glossary, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in orange with black lettering to spine. Inscribed by Nutini to Professor George M Foster. First edition. A significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerian studies, this investigation of the kinship system of a community of Tlaxcalan Indians in the Central Mexican Highlands presents a structural-functional analysis of marriage and the family. The inhabitants of San Bernardino Contla are Nahuatl-speaking Indians, descended from the Chichimec tribes that in pre-Conquest times inhabited the area roughly coinciding with the present state of Tlaxcala. Here many of the early Colonial Indian institutions have survived with a continuity that is not found in any comparable area in the New World. In analyzing the institutions of marriage and the family, Dr Nutini emphasizes the social structure and religious aspects of San Bernardino Contla, and he also describes the territorial and political organization of the municipio. He places the structure of marriage and the fanily in San Bernardino Contla within the context of Mesoamerican marriage and family structure, indicating possible ways by which this neglected field to anthropological inquiry may be improved. George McClelland Fo

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