Unknown Mexico 2 Volume Paperback Set
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USDCarl Lumholtz (1851–1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines, spent five years researching native peoples in Mexico. This two-volume work, published in 1903, describes his expeditions to remote parts of north-west Mexico, inspired by reports about indigenous peoples who lived in cliff dwellings along mountainsides. While in the US in 1890 on a lecture tour, Lumholtz was able to raise sufficient funds for the expedition. He arrived in Mexico City that summer, and after meeting the president, Porfirio DÃaz, he set off with a team of scientists for the Sierra Madre del Norte mountains in the north-west of Mexico, to find the cave-dwelling Tarahumare Indians. Volume 1 focuses on the life and beliefs of the Tarahumare, as well as the natural history of this little-explored region. Volume 2 describes the society and religious practices of the neighbouring Huichols people.
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October 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108033602
1158 pages
229 × 150 × 67 mm
1.81kg
419 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 4 maps
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Preparations for the start
- 2. A remarkable antique piece
- 3. Camping at Upper Bavispe River
- 4. A splendid field prepared for us by the ancient agriculturists of Cave Valley
- 5. Second expedition
- 6. Fossils, and one way of utilising them
- 7. The uncontaminated Tarahumares
- 8. The houses of the Tarahumares
- 9. Arrival at Batopilas
- 10. Nice-looking natives
- 11. A priest and his family make the wilderness comfortable for us
- 12. The Tarahumares till afraid of me
- 13. The Tarahumares physique
- 14. Politeness, and the demands of etiquette
- 15. Many kinds of games among the Tarahumares
- 16. Religion
- 17. The shamans of wise men of the tribe
- 18. Relation of man to nature
- 19. Plant-worship
- 20. The Tarahumare's firm belief in a future life
- 21. Three weeks on foot through the Barranca
- 22. Resumption of the journey southward
- 23. Cerro de Muinora, the highest mountain in Chihuahua
- 24. On to Morelos
- 25. Winter in the High Sierra
- 26. Pueblo Viejo
- 27. Inexperienced help
- 28. A glimpse of the Pacific from the High Sierra
- 29. A cordial reception at San Francisco. Volume 2:
- 1. Reception at San Andres
- 2. Name and history of the Huichols
- 3. Another excursion
- 4. Trip to Bastita
- 5. Votive bowls
- 6. The first census of the Huichol country
- 7. Our procession excites the wonderment of the Mexicans
- 8. Return to the Sierra
- 9. A satisfactory meeting with the principal men
- 10. Practising self-control
- 11. Huichol gods
- 12. How to become a shaman
- 13. Native authorities, civil and ecclesiastical
- 14. Pablo and I separate
- 15. Getting ready for the great Hikuli feast
- 16. Leaving the Huichol country for the coast
- 17. On the road again
- 18. Archaeology versus theology
- 19. Oriental rain-cloak
- 20. A mound of metates
- 21. Arrival in the country of the Tarascos
- 22. Antiquities
- 23. Paracho
- 24. Tribal name of the Tarascos
- 25. Zacapu
- 26. Uruapan, 'The Paradise of Michoacan'
- 27. In the city of Mexico again
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Index.
