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México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization

México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization

Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo
Dennis, Philip A.

Paperback

Series: Llilas Translations from Latin America

AnthropologyMexican History

ISBN10: 0292708432
ISBN13: 9780292708433
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Aug 1 1996
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.

For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the de-Indianized rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's life obligation. Time is circular, and humans fulfill their own cycle in relation to other cycles of the universe.

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