La fiesta de los tastoanes
Subtitle: critical encounters in Mexican festival performance
By: Olga Nájera-Ramírez.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Jocotán -- Rites and ceremonies.; Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Jocotán -- Religion.; Festivals -- Mexico -- Jocotán.; Cargo cults -- Mexico -- Jocotán.; Jocotán (Mexico) -- History.; Jocotán (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
Description: Introduction: first encounters -- The festival performance: a description -- Personal encounters -- Contested histories -- Jocotán today -- A religious conversion story -- The prenda system: reciprocity and resistance -- Compromising positions: the politics of hybridization -- Competing forms of cultural reproduction -- Summary and conclusions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : first encounters; title: The festival performance : a description; title: Personal encounters; title: Contested histories; title: Jocotán today; title: A religious conversion story; title: The prenda system : reciprocity and resistance; title: Compromising positions : the politics of hybridization; title: Competing forms of cultural reproduction; title: Summary and conclusions.