On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while
walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdan, Mexico, with her
infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla,
was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in violence
that broke out in 1978 soon after the Mexican army chopped down a
cornfield that had been planted on an unused cattle pasture by
forty Nahuat villagers.
In this anthropological account, based on years of fieldwork in
Huitzilan, James M. Taggart turns to Victoria's husband, Nacho
Angel Hernandez, to try to understand how a community based on
respect and cooperation descended into horrific violence and
fratricide. When the army chopped down the cornfield at Talcuaco,
the war that broke out resulted in the complete breakdown of the
social and moral order of the community.
At its heart, this is a tragic love story, chronicling Nacho's
feelings for Victoria spanning their courtship, marriage, family
life, and her death. Nacho delivered his testimonio to the author
in Nahuat, making it one of the few autobiographical love stories
told in an Amerindian language, and a very rare account of love
among the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. There is almost nothing
in the literature on how a man develops and changes his feelings
for his wife over his lifetime. This study contributes to the
anthropology of emotion by focusing on how the Nahuat attempt to
express love through language and ritual.
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