“Magazine offers a fresh look at an old problem in Mexican indigenous studies: the nature of the cargo system. . . .The Village Is Like a Wheel is an inspiring work for any reader interested in community studies or contemporary theoretical debates.”—Mountain Research and Development
“A wealth of information full of ethnographic observations and anecdotes appealing to our imagination.”—European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
“Roger Magazine presents and works through a fascinating paradox in which Tepetlaoxtoc villagers, on the outskirts of Mexico City, maintain a philosophy of life that has many things in common with their ancient Nahua ancestors.” —James M. Taggart, author of Remembering Victoria: A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
“Magazine takes issues of long-standing concern in the ethnology of Mesoamerica—like the cargo system, kinship, and ethnicity—and invites us to look at them in a new way. In fact, he turns everything on its head and argues that, from a local point of view, what we thought was important is really not a great concern. Everyone working in this area will have to engage this argument at some level.”—John Monaghan, author of The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Society
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