chancy existence was quite reasonably 
considered normal, given their reali- 
ties. 
Divination or sorcery may explain 
or remedy misfortune occasioned by 
the malice of one’s paisanos in this 
world or the next. Afflictions of God 
are not thought of as yielding to any 
form of human magic. Much of the 
Chinantec past has inclined them to 
roll with the political or supernatural 
punch. They are valiant in the defense 
of their sacred land and honored fam- 
ilies, but it is a theological tenet with 
them that illimitable might is the sov- 
ereign aspect of God’s nature. There 
was a pronounced tendency to think 
of the blind as His victims. Yoleiios 
invariably dealt courteously and prac- 
tically with blind people. Extravillage 
mendicancy was regarded as a neces- 
sity to which little stigma was at- 
tached. Blind Yoleno beggars accom- 
panied by child guides ventured as 
far as Mexico City or Veracruz, al- 
though most begging expeditions were 
to neighboring villages. The easy, 
transgenerational deference that char- 
acterized the interaction of children 
as young as four or five with the mid- 
dle-aged or elderly blind was a part 
of a general Yoleno tradition of prac- 
tical civil identification with the han- 
dicapped. Most people defined a 
friend quite literally as “someone who 
feels your grief,” and children walked 
with the blind “out of love.” Without 
any significant exception, Chinantec 
of all generations extended the same 
civility to me. I was certainly the 
wealthiest and most technically en- 
cumbered blind person they had ever 
seen. One elderly woman saw an ele- 
ment of ill-defined menace in my 
metal canes, but most people were 
politely but openly curious about my 
Braillewriter and Braille watch. The 
sight of a blind person reading or typ- 
ing was new to them, but most vil- 
lagers were more interested than im- 
pressed by my devices. Their prime 
requirement is for a technology that 
minimizes drudgery and increases the 
yield of their grudging slopes. 
The sense of awesome autonomy 
that often clings to technology in a 
machine culture was only nascent in 
Yolox in 1963. Humanity was still the 
measure of most things. I had to travel 
in their country in much the same 
way as any other blind person. My 
wealth made it possible for me to ride 
more often and hire the time and labor 
of people for my special purposes, but 
a child of eleven could see that my 
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