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NahuaIndian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztec are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, practicing shifting cultivation and working both common and private land. They are skilled weavers, using fibres of the maguey plant, wool, and cotton. Nahua parents and godparents have strong ties in a fictive kin relationship. Though they profess Roman Catholicism, the Nahua believe in witchcraft and recognize a variety of supernatural beings. See also Nahuatl language. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Where European and native practices converged, as with the forms of property-holding reflected in testaments and in some degree the inheritance system, for instance, there the process of native acculturation was faster and easier, although in general it proceeded more slowly than in the Nahua lands, where the presence of Spaniards was much greater and acculturative pressures concomitantly stronger. The Nahua of Peru live remotely in the Amazon rainforest headwaters of the Manu, Mishagua and Serjali rivers, where they fled at the beginning of the twentieth century to escape slavery and genocide connected to the rubber industry. Confession among the Nahuas of Mexico from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. |
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