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that figured largely in bad dream 
diets. This group was larger by far 
than the group with the most to eat. 
In 1963 this pervasive poverty was 
reflected in the desultory attendance 
at the three-room elementary school 
of the village. The region of Yolox 
has excited the aesthetic admiration 
of many a foreign traveler, but those 
who must “pull bread from among 
these stumps and stones” long for the 
exalting of every valley and the low- 
ering of every mountain and hill. 
When they say, “Our land is very 
ugly, nothing but mountains and 
trees,” they mean that nine-tenths of 
it is impervious to even their arduous, 
complicated agricultural exertions. 
Those exertions and their prime end, 
to eat and, hence, to live, took prec- 
edence over education, the germ the- 
ory of disease, and the abstract im- 
peratives of big-state Mexican culture. 
Their complex agricultural regime 
scatters Yolenos over portions of every 
one of the microgeographical niches 
of their municipality. Only one Yoleno 
in seven belonged to a family that 
did not possess two dwellings, one in 
the cabezera , or municipal seat, and 
another, less substantial house of ba- 
nana bark or some other tropical build- 
ing material for use when the agri- 
cultural system mandated migration 
to the tropical ranchos. Fire-agricul- 
ture schedules varied in the almost 
vertical fields of their cold temperate 
and hot wet tropical zones. The loss 
of the labor of a child capable of ag- 
ricultural work or the maintenance of 
a very young child in the centrally 
located village, site of the only school, 
represented a formidable strain upon 
the minimal resources of most Yo- 
lenos. 
An abnormally large blind popu- 
lation was a serious burden upon the 
slender resources of many Yolox Chi- 
nantec. At least four out of ten Yo- 
lenos were related by ties of consan- 
guinity or ritual kinship to a blind 
person. In 1963 at least 21 of the 
963 Yolenos were blind, and most of 
these were obliged to ascend and de- 
scend their roller coaster trails driven 
by the same imperatives of hunger 
that goaded their sighted paisanos. 
Blindness was firmly established 
among the distressingly ample roster 
of traumatic customary expectations. 
Some villagers ate mescaline-bearing 
mushrooms or did the divinations that 
are done with various kinds of beans 
or maize grains to find out why life 
was unusually hard. But a hard. 
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