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Into the Hearts of the Amazons is part rousing travel adventure through a little-known world and part popular ethnography, exploring how Zapotec women earned their legendary status in a remote corner of southern Mexico. To satisfy his curiosity about this culture, Tom DeMott journeyed to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where he discovered a thriving modern-day matriarchy among the people of the Isthmus—a cultural crossroads, breeding ground for rebels, and home to a half-million Zapotecs. DeMott int
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- Author
- DeMott, Tom
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299216436
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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