Houses and House Use of the Sierra Tarascans

Beals, Ralph L., Pedro Carrasco, and Thomas McCorkle, Houses and House Use of the Sierra Tarascans, Washington D.C.: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944.

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The Tarascan state was a state in pre-Columbian Mexico, roughly covering the geographic area of the present-day Mexican state of Michoacán, parts of Jalisco, and Guanajuato. At the time of the Spanish conquest it was the second-largest state in Mesoamerica.
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The people of the Tarascan empire were mostly of Purépecha ethnic affiliation but also included other ethnic groups such as the Nahua, Otomi, Matlatzinca and Chichimec. These ethnic groups were gradually assimilated into the Purépecha majority group.