James M Taggart
Biographic Data
| ID | 96946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Taggart |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Taggart |
| SIGNATURE | TAGGART J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin & Marshall College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriage
The Rain Gods’ Rebellion
The Rain Gods' Rebellion: The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency
Their generous support enabled me to make many visits to Huitzilan between and where I met and received the indispensable help of Nacho Ángel Hernández, who taught me his Nahua language, carried out a survey of labor migration, told me his stories, helped me correct transcriptions of stories I recorded from him and others, and explained narrators' obscure allusions.Other Nahuas in Huitzilan, who contributed more stories and o ered invaluable insi…
Joe's Bigfoot
Interpreting the Nahuat Dialogue on the Envious Dead with Jerome Bruner's Theory of Narrative
The Nahuat of Huitzilan de Serdán, Mexico, engage in an oral dialogue about the envious dead who kill children with envy sickness. In this article, I present recorded portions of this dialogue to evaluate Jerome Bruner's hypotheses on the relationship between thought and emotion as they apply to an oral culture. The recorded dialogue reveals some of the ways that words for emotional states, such as envy ornexicol, acquire their meaning through "a…
Introduction to “Long‐Term Fieldwork”
This special issue presents new, original essays by anthropologists who have spent a great deal of time carrying out fieldwork in a variety of ways and under many different conditions. Their ways of doing long‐term fieldwork vary from revisiting the same community to doing multisited fieldwork to gain a broader comparative perspective in the discipline of anthropology. The authors wrestle with the meaning of their work after observing the people …
Narratives of Emotional Experience and Long‐Term Fieldwork among the Nahuat of Mexico
This article describes how the author learned through fieldwork, over a long period time and in different places, to recognize how the Nahuat organize their emotional experiences in narrative form according to a deeply inculcated social, psychological, and cultural pattern. It describes the path taken to understand what the Nahuat mean by love and envy, jealousy and desire and it affirms the value of the comparative method in anthropology
Rainy river lives: Stories told by Maggie Wilson - Edited by Sally Cole
Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdán, Mexico, with her infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla, was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in violence that broke out soon after the Mexican army chopped down a cornfield that had been planted on an unused cattle pasture by forty Nahuat villagers. In this anthropological account, based on…
Militarism, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, 1917-1930
Delirio: The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel: Narratives from Nuevo León
Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico
Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive univers…
The Bear and His Sons: Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will tell the same basic story, but with differences in the details that reveal much about a particular group's worldview. This book looks at differences in the tell…
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico. JILL LESLIE MCKEEVER FURST. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. x + 230 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity. Enrique Dussel
Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation
Gender segregation and cultural constructions of sexuality in two Hispanic societies
Cáceres villagers in Spain and Sierra Nahuat villagers in Mexico separate men from women according to each culture's particular construction of sexuality. This article explains the differing degrees of gender segregation in the two groups by examining sexual beliefs expressed in popular folktales. Comparison of the Cáceres and Sierra Nahuat cases suggests that sexual beliefs justifying gender segregation have their antecedents in early childhood …
Fathering and the Cultural Construction of Brothers in Two Hispanic Societies
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs
"Hansel and Gretel" in Spain and Mexico
Comparaison des versions du conte d' Hansel et Gretel recueillies en Estremadure, Espagne et dans des communautes Nahuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Mexique. Mise en relation avec le sexe du conteur, la structure sociale, le systeme de valeurs et les croyances de la communaute
Linguistic Anthropology: The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Max Lüthi (Jon Erickson)
Cultural/Ethnology: Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico
Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive univers…
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Gender segregation and cultural constructions of sexuality in two Hispanic societies
Cáceres villagers in Spain and Sierra Nahuat villagers in Mexico separate men from women according to each culture's particular construction of sexuality. This article explains the differing degrees of gender segregation in the two groups by examining sexual beliefs expressed in popular folktales. Comparison of the Cáceres and Sierra Nahuat cases suggests that sexual beliefs justifying gender segregation have their antecedents in early childhood …
Militarism, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, 1917-1930
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico. JILL LESLIE MCKEEVER FURST. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. x + 230 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Men's changing image of women in Nahuat oral tradition
This paper describes how men change their image of women in folktales when women improve their position in a male-dominant family system. Comparison of cognate folktales from two Sierra Nahuat communities in Mexico that represent stages of family change shows how storytellers alter the competence and sexuality of their female characters when women acquire more control over strategic resources
The Fissiparous Process in Domestic Groups of a Nahuat-Speaking Community
Class and Sex in Spanish and Mexican Oral Tradition
Interpreting the Nahuat Dialogue on the Envious Dead with Jerome Bruner's Theory of Narrative
The Nahuat of Huitzilan de Serdán, Mexico, engage in an oral dialogue about the envious dead who kill children with envy sickness. In this article, I present recorded portions of this dialogue to evaluate Jerome Bruner's hypotheses on the relationship between thought and emotion as they apply to an oral culture. The recorded dialogue reveals some of the ways that words for emotional states, such as envy ornexicol, acquire their meaning through "a…
Fathering and the Cultural Construction of Brothers in Two Hispanic Societies
"Hansel and Gretel" in Spain and Mexico
Comparaison des versions du conte d' Hansel et Gretel recueillies en Estremadure, Espagne et dans des communautes Nahuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Mexique. Mise en relation avec le sexe du conteur, la structure sociale, le systeme de valeurs et les croyances de la communaute
The Fissiparous Process in Domestic Groups of a Nahuat-Speaking Community
Ideal" and "real" behavior in the Mesoamerican nonresidential extended family
Redfield's (1941) notion that rapid sociocultural change brings about a discrepancy between "ideal" and "real" behavior in the Mesoamerican nonresidential extended family is revised with data from the Nahuat area. The author shows that chronic family tensions unrelated to rapid change can affect the solidarity of the agnatically related males upon whom nonresidential extended family unity depends and that informants express these tensions in thei…
Men's changing image of women in Nahuat oral tradition
This paper describes how men change their image of women in folktales when women improve their position in a male-dominant family system. Comparison of cognate folktales from two Sierra Nahuat communities in Mexico that represent stages of family change shows how storytellers alter the competence and sexuality of their female characters when women acquire more control over strategic resources
Animal Metaphors in Spanish and Mexican Oral Tradition
Comparaisons aux niveaux du langage metaphorique et des contextes culturels a partir des versions de Juanito el Oso (Little John the Bear) en Castillan et en Nahua
Class and Sex in Spanish and Mexican Oral Tradition
Mexican anthropologists in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara. Boundaries and Paradigms: The Anthropological Study of Rural Life in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Leiden Development Studies No. 4; 1982. 355 pp. (price not given) to be republished by Routledge and Kegan Paul
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Cultural/Ethnology: Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition
Nahuat Myth and Social Structure
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs
"Hansel and Gretel" in Spain and Mexico
Comparaison des versions du conte d' Hansel et Gretel recueillies en Estremadure, Espagne et dans des communautes Nahuat de la Sierra de Puebla, Mexique. Mise en relation avec le sexe du conteur, la structure sociale, le systeme de valeurs et les croyances de la communaute
Linguistic Anthropology: The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man. Max Lüthi (Jon Erickson)
Gender segregation and cultural constructions of sexuality in two Hispanic societies
Cáceres villagers in Spain and Sierra Nahuat villagers in Mexico separate men from women according to each culture's particular construction of sexuality. This article explains the differing degrees of gender segregation in the two groups by examining sexual beliefs expressed in popular folktales. Comparison of the Cáceres and Sierra Nahuat cases suggests that sexual beliefs justifying gender segregation have their antecedents in early childhood …
Fathering and the Cultural Construction of Brothers in Two Hispanic Societies
Conversion to Christianity: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on a Great Transformation
The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity. Enrique Dussel
The Bear and His Sons: Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will tell the same basic story, but with differences in the details that reveal much about a particular group's worldview. This book looks at differences in the tell…
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico
The Natural History of the Soul In Ancient Mexico. JILL LESLIE MCKEEVER FURST. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. x + 230 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico
Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive univers…
Militarism, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, 1917-1930
Delirio: The Fantastic, the Demonic, and the Réel: Narratives from Nuevo León
Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdán, Mexico, with her infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla, was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in violence that broke out soon after the Mexican army chopped down a cornfield that had been planted on an unused cattle pasture by forty Nahuat villagers. In this anthropological account, based on…
Rainy river lives: Stories told by Maggie Wilson - Edited by Sally Cole
Introduction to “Long‐Term Fieldwork”
This special issue presents new, original essays by anthropologists who have spent a great deal of time carrying out fieldwork in a variety of ways and under many different conditions. Their ways of doing long‐term fieldwork vary from revisiting the same community to doing multisited fieldwork to gain a broader comparative perspective in the discipline of anthropology. The authors wrestle with the meaning of their work after observing the people …
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