Tradición oral de dos Huaves de San Mateo del Mar Oaxaca
The End of the Montiocs, published in 1985, was a book difficult to classify from the beginning: neither literature nor ethnography. Too many descriptions of parties, fishing and iguanas to be a book of oral tradition; too many non-Huave texts to be a faithful portrait of an autochthonous culture; too many personal narratives and digressions to be scientific anthropology. However, the publication was highly successful among subsequent generations of researchers and, encouragingly, among Huave teachers and scholars now interested in a previously deplored tradition. The narrative force of the stories allowed it to be put to the most diverse uses: musicians who reused the speeches of the turtle, poets who call the soul in the way of the huaves, doctors who analyze the rabbit syndrome, ecologists who always associated rain with fishing.
