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In the Shadow of Tlaloc

Life in a Mexican Village

Gregory G. Reck

The remote Mexican village of Jonotla lies in the shadow of the rock of Tlaloc, named for the ancient god of rain whose spirit has dwelt among its inhabitants for centuries. In the mid-1960s the twentieth century finally came to the fifteen hundred villagers of Jonotla—in the form of roads, cars, buses, electricity, and a more competitive form of life. In this moving account Reck sets out to document what effect these changes have had on the villagers. This study is part of the universal drama that is inevitably played out wherever and whenever the past and the future meet in sudden conflict.
 

$17.50 list, 224 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-244-5

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-244-5

© 1978

Table of Contents

1. Some Worlds

2. Sounds of the World to Come

3. The Day of the Dead

4. Looking for Centavos

5. The Promised Land

6. Good-bye, Ixoceolotl

7. Lost Memories

Appendix: Anthropology and Human Life