TEPIC

tāpēkˈ, city (1990 pop. 206,967), capital of Nayarit state, W Mexico, on the Tepic River. A commercial center on the coastal line of the Mexican National Railways and on a major highway, Tepic lies in a prosperous corn, sugarcane, and cattle-raising area. The city has sugar mills and textile factories. Wild mountain scenery surrounds Tepic, which, despite modernization, retains some of its colonial charm.

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books on: Tepic  - 141 results

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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion & Survival
Book by Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnohistory--Mexico--Nayarit, Huichol Indians--History, Huichol Indians--Religion, Huichol Philosophy, Nayarit (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Peyotism--Mexico--Nayarit, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Nayarit, Shamanism--Mexico--Nayarit
...of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Tepic, Nayarit, we received a farranging essay...recently also in cities like Guadalajara, Tepic, Zacatecas, Durango, and even the distant...1893-94; to Jalisco and the territory of Tepic in 1896-98; to Puebla and Oaxaca, including...
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Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768
Book by Harry W. Crosby; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Baja California (Mexico)--History, California--History--To 1846, Indians Of Mexico--Mexico--Baja California--History, Indians Of North America--California--History--18th Century, Jesuits--Missions--California, Jesuits--Missions--Mexico--Baja California, Spaniards--California--History--18th Century
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Synoptic Studies of Mexican Culture
Book by Munro S. Edmonson, Glen Fisher, Pedro Carrasco, Eric R. Wolf; Middle American Research Institute, 1957
Subjects: Community Development--Mexico, Indians Of Mexico--Social Life And Customs, Mexico--Civilization
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Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains
Book by Herbert E. Bolton; Whittlesey House, 1949
Subjects: Southwest, New--Discovery And Exploration
...the annals of Guadalajara, Compostela, Tepic, and Culiacan, those old cities which...and several thousand native allies. At Tepic he established a garrison, the germ of...Boston. Don Nuno himself now withdrew to Tepic, but his colonists extended their explorations...
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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life
Book by Desley Deacon; The University of Chicago Press, 1997
Subjects: Feminism--United States--History, Feminists--United States--Biography, Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews--1874-1941, Sex Role--United States--History, United States--Intellectual Life--20th Century, United States--Race Relations, United States--Social Conditions, Women Anthropologists--United States--Biography, Women Social Scientists--United States--Biography
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journal articles on: Tepic  - 14 results

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Tukipa Ceremonial Centers in the Community of Tuapurie (Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlan): Cargo Systems, Landscape, and Cosmovision
Journal article by Johannes Neurath; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Huichols--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Mexican native peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native Americans (Mexico)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Social structure--Research
...the Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Tepic, Nayarit. Jauregui, Jesus, Johannes Neurath...Sierra Madre, in the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco, and among the Tarascos of...the Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia. Tepic, Nayarit. 1998 Las fiestas de la Casa...
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Gourdvines, Fires, and Wixarika Territoriality
Journal article by Paul M. Liffman; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Fires--Religious aspects, Gourds--Religious aspects, Huichols--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Human territoriality--Research, Mexican native peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native Americans (Mexico)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...Zitacua sic: Xitakwa on the outskirts of Tepic in the 1980s. This shows how xirikite tend...de Antropologia e Historia, en Nayarit. Tepic, 4-6 November. Hobbes, Thomas 1985...Jean 1983 La desamortizacion de 1856 en Tepic. Relaciones (El Colegio de Michoacan) no...
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Mitote and the Cora Universe
Journal article by Adriana Guzman Vazquez; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Archaeology--Research, Mexican native peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native Americans (Mexico)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Nayarit, Mexico--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...to water; south is the direction of the lake that lies near Tepic. Preuss (1998c 1911: 412) provides a helpful summary of my...Jesus 1993 Los coras de Santa Teresa de El Nayar, Nayarit. Tepic: Impresora Castellanos. Mauss, Marcel 1979 Sociologia y...
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The Mexican Catholic Church and Constitutional Change since 1929
Journal article by Peter L. Reich; The Historian, Vol. 60, 1997
Subjects: Catholic Church in Mexico--History, Church and state--Mexico, Mexico--History
...Nayarit intervened to protect Christmas decorations in the town of Tepic from being dismantled by the city.(20) When local authorities...20) Silvestre Jacobo, Secretary of the Vicario Capitular of Tepic, "Informe," 7 January 1936, Collecion Conflicto Religioso por...
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"To Join the Waters": Indexing Metonymies of Territoriality in Cora Ritual
Journal article by Philip E. Coyle; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Anthropological research--Mexico, Human territoriality--Research, Mexican native peoples--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Native Americans (Mexico)--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Water--Religious aspects
...Otis Castillo, the son of George Otis and Veshalica Castillo of Tepic, Nayarit. (1). In the Cora language, mitotes are referred...Jesus 1993 Los coras de Santa Teresa de El Nayar, Nayarit. Tepic: Impresora Castellanos. Benitez, Fernando 1989 Los indios...
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magazine articles on: Tepic  - 5 results

 
 
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Travels into America's Future: A Correspondent ... Reports from His Dimly Understood Native Land ... Focusing on the Southwest
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, July 1998
Subjects: Future predictions--Forecasts and trends, Mexico--Description and travel, Southwestern United States--Description and travel
...assassinated. Several hours later I got off at Tepic, a city of 240,000 people, and checked...this architectural bleakness replaced it. Tepic was a town of the new, Third World Sunbelt...town of Compostela, forty minutes south of Tepic, was where Coronado, having arrived from...
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In L.A., Burning All Illusions: Urban America Sees Its Future
Magazine article by Mike Davis; The Nation, Vol. 254, June 1, 1992
Subjects: African Americans--Economic aspects, Hispanic Americans--Economic aspects, Los Angeles, California, Riots, 1992--Political aspects, Rodney King Verdict Aftermath, 1992--Political aspects
...ugly toad"--according to 9-year-old Emerio. His parents talk anxiously, almost in a whisper, about the desaparecidos: Raul from Tepic, big Mario, the younger Flores girl and the cousin from Ahuachapan. Like all Salvadorans, they know about those who "disappear...
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Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California
Magazine article by Peter A. Coates; California History, Vol. 83, Spring 2005
Subjects: California--Economic aspects, California--Portrayals, California--Social aspects, Distribution (Economics)--Analysis, Distribution (Economics)--History, Distribution of wealth--Analysis, Distribution of wealth--History, Sociopolitical literature--Analysis, Wealth--Analysis, Wealth--History
...1850, had mostly lived in Mexico, where his father moved in the late 1820s. (Barrons father served as British vice-consul at Tepic from 1843 to 1847, and the family business interests encompassed silver mines, cotton mills and a bank.) Yet his Menlo Park...
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The Bloody Trail of Carlos Salinas; Murder and Politics in Mexico
Magazine article by John Ross; The Nation, Vol. 257, November 22, 1993
Subjects: Mexico--Political aspects, Salinas de Gortari, Carlos--Political activity
...summers gubernatorial elections in Nayarit state, were gassed and beaten by security forces in the central plaza of the capital, Tepic. A dozen party leaders have been jailed since. Next year, Cardenas will again seek to break the PRIs sixty-four-year hold...
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Francisco P. Ramirez: A Short Biography
Magazine article by Paul Bryan Gray; California History, Vol. 84, Winter 2006
Subjects: Mexican American leadership, Newspaper editors--Biography, Ramirez, Francisco P.--Biography, Spanish newspapers--History
...Francisco Ramirez, was a carpenter who arrived in Alta California in 1794 with a party of settlers from Sonora, Mexico. A native of Tepic, the elder Francisco Ramirez and his wife, Rosa Quijada, settled at the Mission Santa Barbara, where Juan M. Ramirez was born...


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newspaper articles on: Tepic  - 2 results

 
 
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Unlikely Coalition in Governor's Race Serves as Model
Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, July 4, 1999
Subjects: Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico), Mexico
Unlikely coalition in governors race serves as model by Robert Buckman TEPIC, Mexico - In a classic case of strange political bedfellows, Mexicos right-wing and left-wing opposition parties have formed an...
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Births
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 27, 2005
...Waukegan. Grandparents: Jesus J. Ruvalcaba and Maria G. Quintero, Puerto Penasco, Mexico; Teresa Zambrano and Miguel Ramos, Tepic, Mexico. - Horacio Vega to Joaquin and Oliva Vega, Round Lake Beach. Brother of Victor and Diego. Grandparents: Jesus Vega...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tepic  - 2 results

 
 
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Tepic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TEPIC tapek , city (1990 pop. 206,967), capital of Nayarit state, W Mexico, on the Tepic River. A commercial center on the coastal line of the Mexican National Railways and on a major highway, Tepic lies in a prosperous corn, sugarcane, and cattle-raising...
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Nayarit
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...547 sq mi (27,317 sq km), W Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. Tepic is the capital. Mostly wild and rugged, Nayarit is broken by...early in the 16th cent., and one of its towns, Compostela (near Tepic), was the first capital of Nueva Galicia . Spain did not finally...


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