Word: tepoztlan
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...scholarship. What must be stressed as well, however, is its tendency to invoke the opposite myths: the noble savage and his gemeinschaft society, unfettered by civilized restraint in a rural paradise with a stable moral order. Such was the picture painted by Robert Redfield of the Mexican village of Tepoztlan; such was the picture that Oscar Lewis challenged when he broke precedent by restudying Tepoztlan. His invasion of another scholar's territory touched off a controversy. Lewis accused Redfield of looking at peasants through rosy-colored lenses; Redfiled damned Lewis' pessimism. The Children of Sanchez could provoke the same sort...
More than a Puzzle. Author Coccioli has told the life and death of Indians of Tepoztlan, which parallel the Gospels in elaborate detail. Skill, insight and a rich, image-decked style make this chronicle more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path...
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