Title: Way out of date
Review: I suppose for it's 1977 publication, most of the photographs and information included were relatively recent, but there were photos of Indians walking on their knees to the OLD basilica, which is now in almost complete disuse, the new one having been inaugurated in 1976. It's a shame that the 1984 and 1990 printings did NOTHING to update these images.I also object to the "Ropa" ("clothing") chapter dealing exclusively with traditional clothing, and never mentioning that Mexicans everywhere wear pretty much what people all over the world are wearing--jeans and tennis shoes. Of COURSE traditional dress predominates in small towns, but Mexico's VAST urban population doesnt' look anything at all like the people depicted in this book. It's as if nothing had changed since the charro movies of the '30s and '40s.There is a dearth of good, intermediate-level reading materials in Spanish, but... trust me... this is not the answer.
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