ABELOE, WILLIAM N. - To the Top of the Mountain the Life of Father Umberto Olivieri, Padre of the Otomis

Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0682485586. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author , with a short inscription on the half title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good-dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright . The dust jacket is in generally clean, bright condition but there are two small semi-closed tears to the front panel, and some bumping to the top front corner of the dust jacket. "The Otomi traditionally worshipped the moon as their highest deity. Even in modern times, many Otomi populations practice shamanism and hold prehispanic beliefs such as Nagualism. Like most sedentary Mesoamerican peoples, Otomis traditionally subsisted on maize, beans and squash, but the maguey (century plant) was also an important cultigen used for production of alcohol (pulque) and fiber (henequen). Although the Otomi Indians rarely eat what Westerners would consider a balanced diet, they maintain reasonably good health by eating tortillas, drinking pulque, and eating most fruits available around them. In 1943 to 1944, a report about a nutritional study about the Otomi villages located in the Mezquital Valley of Mexico, recorded that despite the arid climate and land unfit for agriculture without irrigation, the Otomi people chiefly depended on the production of maguey. Maguey (century plant) is used to produce weaving fibers and “pulque”, a fermented unfiltered juice that played an important part in the Otomi’s economy and nutrition." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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