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The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society

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The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society - Monaghan, John D.
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In this book, John Monaghan explores the culture of the Mixtecs, today one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico. Focusing on the community of Santiago Nuyoo, located in the mountainous Mixteca Alta region, he describes Nuyooteco marriage practices, gift exchange, kinship systems, land tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting.

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The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society 1999, University of Oklahoma Press, Oklahoma

ISBN-13: 9780806131924

Paperback

The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality 1995, University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-13: 9780806127620

Hardcover