The Santa Fe Fiesta, reinvented
Subtitle: staking ethno-nationalist claims to a disappearing homeland
By: Sarah Bronwen Horton.
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934691199
Subjects: Festivals -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- History; Fasts and feasts -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- History; Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Ethnic identity; Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Rites and ceremonies; Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Social life and customs; Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Ethnic relations; Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Architects of the nation: crafting Spanish American identity; title: Narratives of displacement: chipping away at the plaza's adobe camouflage; title: The fiesta and Zozobra: neo-pagan burnings versus the Hispano-Catholic core; title: Of the fiesta; title: Inventing the fiesta: Hispano cultural preservation and the decline of the; title: Hispano elite; title: Acts of ventriloquism: La Conquistadora's claims to race, territory, and; title: Redemption; title: The nation's "great men": infusing the present with the glory of the past; title: Honor-virtue and virility: the gendered identity claims of the fiesta queen and; title: Don Diego de Vargas; title: Fiesta as a "family affair" : claiming status and reproducing the ethnic group; title: Coyotes in the fiesta: the silences and violences of a myth of tri-cultural; title: Harmony; title: Homecoming deferred: diasporic Hispanos and the fiesta; title: Conclusion: making nationalism persuasive.