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In a Village Far from Home: My Years Among the Cora Indians of the Sierra Madre
In a Village Far from Home My Years Among the Cora Indians of the Sierra Madre
Author: Catherine Palmer Finerty
What do most career women do after a successful run on Madison Avenue? Catherine Finerty watched her friends settle into the country-club life. She opted instead for Mexico. Soon after moving to Guadalajara, Finerty found herself visiting small settlements hidden deep in Mexico's tropical mountains. It was in Jesus Maria--so isolated that on...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816520374
ISBN-10: 0816520372
Publication Date: 9/2000
Pages: 206
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Book Type: Paperback
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I wanted to learn about the Sierra Madre region of Mexico and about it's people and this was the story that caught my attention. The Cora Indians and mestizos have a very different lifestyle and did make for an interesting story, based upon Catherine Finerty's experiences there.
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