This beautiful tapestry of traditional tales, history, folk arts, and dance offers you a glimpse into the living legacy of Mexican folklore. After an overview of Mexico's history from the Mesoamerican indigenous era to modern times, Vigil explores the fascinating traditions of Oaxacan wood carving, Huichol bead and yarn art, folk masks, folklorico dance costumes, and Mexican folklore. A collection of tales follows, including classic tales, pourquoi creation tales from native people of pre-Hispanic Mexico, and tales from the ...
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This beautiful tapestry of traditional tales, history, folk arts, and dance offers you a glimpse into the living legacy of Mexican folklore. After an overview of Mexico's history from the Mesoamerican indigenous era to modern times, Vigil explores the fascinating traditions of Oaxacan wood carving, Huichol bead and yarn art, folk masks, folklorico dance costumes, and Mexican folklore. A collection of tales follows, including classic tales, pourquoi creation tales from native people of pre-Hispanic Mexico, and tales from the Spanish colonial era of Mexican history-trickster tales, adventure and wonder stories, and animal fables. Lively reading for older students and adults, the tales may also be used for read-alouds with younger students. With 15 of the 44 tales presented in Spanish as well as in English, this is an excellent resource for Spanish classes and for Spanish-speaking readers. The fascinating background material also makes the book an excellent source for reports and research. Color plates
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Good. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 223 p. Contains: Illustrations. World Folklore (Hardcover). Audience: Children/juvenile. Ex-library s HARD COVER BOOK (ST051417) FOLLOWING SPECIAL DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY: This sale is for a used Book: This book Contains Stains, Writing, Highlight, Answers for most Questions, Notes, Names, Marker s Marks, and/Under-lining. Back and front cover (Bent, wrinkled, damaged & creased), Marker s mark, tapes, library s logo, missing blank pages, back and front cover cuts. Stem s binding (Good), Water damaged (NONE), DJ COVER (MISSING) wrinkled pages (yes). You will be at most 65% satisfied with this item or your money back guarantee.
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