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Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time in which he or she lived. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.  
Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time in which he or she lived. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.  
The Family History Library has collected some sources that discuss a variety of subjects related to the social life and customs in Mexico. These records are listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under:
''MEXICO- SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS''
''MEXICO, [STATE]- SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS''


==Online Resources==
==Online Resources==
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|History, commerce
|History, commerce
|1300s to 1500s
|1300s to 1500s
|Del Castillo, Bernal Diaz. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/2794/ The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo]'', John Ingram Lockhart, trans. J. Hatchard and Son, 1844.
|Del Castillo, Bernal Diaz. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/2794/ ''The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo]'', John Ingram Lockhart, trans. J. Hatchard and Son, 1844.
|Mexico City
|Mexico City
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|Urban life
|Urban life
|1890s to 1910s
|1890s to 1910s
|Godoy, Mercedes. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/3186/ When I Was a Girl in Mexico].'' Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1919.
|Godoy, Mercedes. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/3186/ ''When I Was a Girl in Mexico].'' Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1919.
|Mexico City
|Mexico City
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|Dress, fashions
|Dress, fashions
|19th century
|19th century
|Spence, Lewis. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/690/ Mexico of the Mexicans]''. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.
|Spence, Lewis. ''[https://www.tota.world/article/690/ ''Mexico of the Mexicans]''. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.
|Mexico
|Mexico
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|History||||Manzanilla, Linda and López Luján, Leonardo  coordinadores. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/703851?availability=HSB%20(Headquarters%20Storage%20Building) ''Atlas histórico de Mesoamérica'']. Mexico City, Mexico: Eds. Larousse, 1993 ||Central America, Mexico
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|Politics||||Turner, John Kenneth. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2366896 ''Barbarous Mexico'']. Chicago, Illinois: C. H. Kerr & company, 1911||Mexico
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|Religion||||Wold, Lillian Ramos Navarro [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1502804 ''Casamiento y velacion = Marriage and blessing: two distinct ceremonies'']. Journal (HOGAR de Dallas) - v. 5''], 2002||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Lewis, Oscar. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2452551 ''The children of Sánchez: autobiography of a Mexican family'']. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2014||Mexico
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|Women||||Muriel, Josephina. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2028692?availability=Family%20History%20Library Cultura femenina novohispana'']. Mexico : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000||Mexico
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|History, Politics||||Riding, Alan. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/666389?availability=Family%20History%20Library Distant neighbors : a portrait of the Mexicans'']. New York, New York: Knopf, 1985||Mexico
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|Social Politics, Travel||||Ryan, John Morris. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/577926?availability=Family%20History%20Library Area handbook for Mexico'']. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1970||Mexico
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|Church History||||Moses, Jasper T. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/361677?availability=Family%20History%20Library Today in the land of tomorrow : a study in the development of Mexico'']. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Christian Women's Board of Missions, 1907||Mexico
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|History, Women||1750-1846||Porter, Amy M. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4114618?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Their lives, their wills: women in the borderlands, 1750-1846'']. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2015||Mexico
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|Travel||1824, 1825, 1826||Penny, Edward B. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3582816 ''A sketch of the customs and society of Mexico: in a series of familiar letters and a journal of travels in the interior, during the years 1824, 1825, 1826'']. London, England: Longman & Co, 1828||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Aizpuru, Pilar Gonzalbo. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4114111?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Educación, familia y vida cotidiana en México virreinal'']. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de México Centro de Estudios Históricos, 2013||Mexico
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|Land||||translated by Alvin Eustis ; edited, with a foreword by Lesley Byrd Simpson. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/213457?availability=HSB%20(Headquarters%20Storage%20Building) ''Land and society in colonial Mexico : the great hacienda'']. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1966||Mexico
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|Migration||||Greenow, Linda L. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/33196?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Marriage migration and regional interaction in late colonial Nueva Galicia'']. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Association of American Geographers, 1979||Mexico
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|Population, History||||Denhardt, Robert. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/213461?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Mexican demography'']. Pacific Historical Review, 1939||Mexico
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|Social life and customs, Population, History||1820-1980||de Lomnitz, Larissa Adler and Pérez-Lizaur, Marisol; translated by Cinna Lomnitz. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/637308?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''A Mexican elite family, 1820-1980 : kinships, class, and culture'']. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Johnson, William Weber and the Editors of Life. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287570?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Mexico'']. New York, New York: Time, 1961||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Romney, Antone Kimball and Romney, Romaine. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/224647?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, México'']. New York, New York: John Wiley, 1966||Oaxaca, Mexico
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|Statistics||1822||Ayala, Ortiz de; Tadeo, Simón; Garcia Diáz, Tarsicio. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/213449?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Resumen de la estadística del Imperio Mexicano, 1822 : Estudio preliminar, revisión de texto, notas y anexos de Tarsicio Garcia Diáz'']. Mexico: Biblioteca Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 1968||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Aizpuru, Pilar Gonzalbo. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4115957?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Familia y Orden Colonial'']. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2005||Mexico
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|French Customs||18th Century||Albán, Juan Pedro Viqueira. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Ve2YrAJBzI0C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Mexico+Social+life+and+customs&ots=N0rV3wH6GL&sig=BGISpYCka4rQ7q5Go7DUiWXSt5A#v=onepage&q=Mexico%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico'']. SR Books, 2004||Mexico
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|History, Religion||||Standish, Peter; Bell, Steven M. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=GosHz-SKVR4C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Mexico+Social+life+and+customs&ots=LtbVVNVSlQ&sig=2sHTq5rdV8OKCCl30DW42mZqfe4#v=onepage&q=Mexico%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Culture and Customs of Mexico'']. Greenwood Press, 2004||Mexico
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|Women||Preconquest Colonial Mexico||edited by Schroeder, Susan; Wood, Stephanie; Haskett,Robert Stephen. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mLtsR6plL4EC&oi=fnd&pg=PP9&dq=Mexico+Social+life+and+customs&ots=4PzdI28jM-&sig=3zZU5Pi60zFveQFT42zzVr5yWDs#v=onepage&q=Mexico%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Indian Women of Early Mexico'']. University of Oklahoma Press, 1997||Mexico
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|Manners||Modern||Mavor, Guy. [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qyviyb2u_2sC&oi=fnd&pg=PT4&dq=Mexico+Social+life+and+customs&ots=iDx2RCkDMN&sig=MEz7SQrbmbx83Pqt1rn4TUi_BGo#v=onepage&q=Mexico%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture'']. Kuperard, 2008||Mexico
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|Art||Colonial||Katzew, Lona . [https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2I6i1FFGV0EC&oi=fnd&pg=PP11&dq=Mexico+Social+life+and+customs&ots=3yGj-ks1ml&sig=60QmC6pUDWhNEX_GlFPpIPWnyQQ#v=onepage&q=Mexico%20Social%20life%20and%20customs&f=false ''Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico'']. Yale University Press, 2004||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||||Echenberg, Myron. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1w6tccc?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Mexico+culture&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMexico%2Bculture&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%2F5187&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2c3df0feeb4576b16249bcadc6da8651 ''Culture and Higher Learning in Humboldt’s Mexico (pp. 84-98) From: Humboldt's Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller'']. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017||Mexico
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|Sports||20th Century||ALAMILLO, JOSÉ M. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11hptsm?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Mexico+culture&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DMexico%2Bculture&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%2F5187&refreqid=fastly-default%3Aa6ff6a978d0f29c246e82675217f9623 ''DEPORTES, AMERICANIZATION, AND MEXICAN SPORTING CULTURE (pp. 14-39) From: Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora'']. Rutgers University Press, 2020||Mexico
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|Sports||20th Century||Maddicks, Russell. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/mexico/oclc/953598000&referer=brief_results ''Mexico'']. London: Kuperard, 2017||Mexico
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|Travel, Manners||Modern||Carpenter, Frank G. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/mexico/oclc/9865594&referer=brief_results ''Mexico'']. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1928||Mexico
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|Dance, Festivals||Modern||Mauldin, Barbara. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/masks-of-mexico-tigers-devils-and-the-dance-of-life/oclc/39787126&referer=brief_results ''Masks of Mexico: tigers, devils, and the dance of life'']. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999||Mexico
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|Social life and customs||17th, 18th, 19th Century||Villa-Flores, Javier; Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/emotions-and-daily-life-in-colonial-mexico/oclc/864411007&referer=brief_results ''Emotions and daily life in colonial Mexico'']. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014||Mexico
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|Manners, Children||||Peck, Anne Merriman. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/young-mexico/oclc/32101672&referer=brief_results ''Young Mexico'']. New York, R.M. McBride, 1941||Mexico
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|Indians of Mexico and Central America, Antiquities||||Phillips, Charles; Jones, David M. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/aztec-maya-world-everyday-life-society-and-culture-in-ancient-central-america-and-mexico-with-over-500-photographs-and-fine-art-images/oclc/60320426&referer=brief_results ''The Aztec & Maya world : everyday life, society and culture in ancient Central America and Mexico, with over 500 photographs and fine art images'']. London: Lorenz Books, 2005||Mexico, Central America
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|Santa Anna||1822-1855||Olivera, Ruth R.; Crété, Liliane. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-in-mexico-under-santa-anna-1822-1855/oclc/22766757&referer=brief_results ''Life in Mexico under Santa Anna, 1822-1855'']. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991||Mexico
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|National characteristics||Modern||Castañeda, Jorge G. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/manana-forever-mexico-and-the-mexicans/oclc/753625653&referer=brief_results ''Mañana forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans'']. New York, New York: Vintage Books 2012||Mexico
|-
|Folklore||||Braddy, Haldeen. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/mexico-and-the-old-southwest-people-palaver-places/oclc/135232&referer=brief_results ''Mexico and the old Southwest; people, palaver, places'']. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1971||Mexico, Southwest
|}
|}
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Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time in which he or she lived. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.

Online Resources

Topic Time frame Resource Location
History, commerce 1300s to 1500s Del Castillo, Bernal Diaz. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, John Ingram Lockhart, trans. J. Hatchard and Son, 1844. Mexico City
Urban life 1890s to 1910s Godoy, Mercedes. When I Was a Girl in Mexico. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1919. Mexico City
Dress, fashions 19th century Spence, Lewis. Mexico of the Mexicans. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Mexico
History Manzanilla, Linda and López Luján, Leonardo coordinadores. Atlas histórico de Mesoamérica. Mexico City, Mexico: Eds. Larousse, 1993 Central America, Mexico
Politics Turner, John Kenneth. Barbarous Mexico. Chicago, Illinois: C. H. Kerr & company, 1911 Mexico
Religion Wold, Lillian Ramos Navarro Casamiento y velacion = Marriage and blessing: two distinct ceremonies. Journal (HOGAR de Dallas) - v. 5], 2002 Mexico
Social life and customs Lewis, Oscar. The children of Sánchez: autobiography of a Mexican family. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2014 Mexico
Women Muriel, Josephina. Cultura femenina novohispana. Mexico : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000 Mexico
History, Politics Riding, Alan. Distant neighbors : a portrait of the Mexicans. New York, New York: Knopf, 1985 Mexico
Social Politics, Travel Ryan, John Morris. Area handbook for Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1970 Mexico
Church History Moses, Jasper T. Today in the land of tomorrow : a study in the development of Mexico. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Christian Women's Board of Missions, 1907 Mexico
History, Women 1750-1846 Porter, Amy M. Their lives, their wills: women in the borderlands, 1750-1846. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2015 Mexico
Travel 1824, 1825, 1826 Penny, Edward B. A sketch of the customs and society of Mexico: in a series of familiar letters and a journal of travels in the interior, during the years 1824, 1825, 1826. London, England: Longman & Co, 1828 Mexico
Social life and customs Aizpuru, Pilar Gonzalbo. Educación, familia y vida cotidiana en México virreinal. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de México Centro de Estudios Históricos, 2013 Mexico
Land translated by Alvin Eustis ; edited, with a foreword by Lesley Byrd Simpson. Land and society in colonial Mexico : the great hacienda. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1966 Mexico
Migration Greenow, Linda L. Marriage migration and regional interaction in late colonial Nueva Galicia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Association of American Geographers, 1979 Mexico
Population, History Denhardt, Robert. Mexican demography. Pacific Historical Review, 1939 Mexico
Social life and customs, Population, History 1820-1980 de Lomnitz, Larissa Adler and Pérez-Lizaur, Marisol; translated by Cinna Lomnitz. A Mexican elite family, 1820-1980 : kinships, class, and culture. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987 Mexico
Social life and customs Johnson, William Weber and the Editors of Life. Mexico. New York, New York: Time, 1961 Mexico
Social life and customs Romney, Antone Kimball and Romney, Romaine. The Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, México. New York, New York: John Wiley, 1966 Oaxaca, Mexico
Statistics 1822 Ayala, Ortiz de; Tadeo, Simón; Garcia Diáz, Tarsicio. Resumen de la estadística del Imperio Mexicano, 1822 : Estudio preliminar, revisión de texto, notas y anexos de Tarsicio Garcia Diáz. Mexico: Biblioteca Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 1968 Mexico
Social life and customs Aizpuru, Pilar Gonzalbo. Familia y Orden Colonial. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2005 Mexico
French Customs 18th Century Albán, Juan Pedro Viqueira. Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. SR Books, 2004 Mexico
History, Religion Standish, Peter; Bell, Steven M. Culture and Customs of Mexico. Greenwood Press, 2004 Mexico
Women Preconquest Colonial Mexico edited by Schroeder, Susan; Wood, Stephanie; Haskett,Robert Stephen. Indian Women of Early Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press, 1997 Mexico
Manners Modern Mavor, Guy. Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture. Kuperard, 2008 Mexico
Art Colonial Katzew, Lona . Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico. Yale University Press, 2004 Mexico
Social life and customs Echenberg, Myron. Culture and Higher Learning in Humboldt’s Mexico (pp. 84-98) From: Humboldt's Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 Mexico
Sports 20th Century ALAMILLO, JOSÉ M. DEPORTES, AMERICANIZATION, AND MEXICAN SPORTING CULTURE (pp. 14-39) From: Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora. Rutgers University Press, 2020 Mexico
Sports 20th Century Maddicks, Russell. Mexico. London: Kuperard, 2017 Mexico
Travel, Manners Modern Carpenter, Frank G. Mexico. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1928 Mexico
Dance, Festivals Modern Mauldin, Barbara. Masks of Mexico: tigers, devils, and the dance of life. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999 Mexico
Social life and customs 17th, 18th, 19th Century Villa-Flores, Javier; Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. Emotions and daily life in colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014 Mexico
Manners, Children Peck, Anne Merriman. Young Mexico. New York, R.M. McBride, 1941 Mexico
Indians of Mexico and Central America, Antiquities Phillips, Charles; Jones, David M. The Aztec & Maya world : everyday life, society and culture in ancient Central America and Mexico, with over 500 photographs and fine art images. London: Lorenz Books, 2005 Mexico, Central America
Santa Anna 1822-1855 Olivera, Ruth R.; Crété, Liliane. Life in Mexico under Santa Anna, 1822-1855. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 Mexico
National characteristics Modern Castañeda, Jorge G. Mañana forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans. New York, New York: Vintage Books 2012 Mexico
Folklore Braddy, Haldeen. Mexico and the old Southwest; people, palaver, places. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1971 Mexico, Southwest
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