The Covenants With Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

An ethnographic study of one of the largest Native American groups in Mexico, focusing on the community of Santiago Nuyoo in the mountains of Mixtec Alta. Describing marriage, gift exchange, kinship, land tenure, cosmology, ritual, and feasting, Monaghan (anthropology, Vanderbilt U.) shows how the people create and maintain relationships and achieve collective goals through exchange and sacrifice. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.