Carrying the word
Subtitle: the Concheros dance in Mexico City
By: Susanna Rostas
Series: Mesoamerican worlds; Mesoamerican worlds
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780870819605; 9780870819674
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Incongruous beginnings; title: The experiential context. The Concheros ; The obligations: framing the context; title: The experiential nexus: forming the self. Agency and the dance: ritualization and the performative ; Conchero speak: carrying the word ; Clothing matters ; Why dance?; title: Power concerns: performing the self. Alliances and identity politics ; Oral tradition, myth, and history ; The Mexica and Mexicanidad.