Oaxaca celebrates
Subtitle: food, family, and fiestas in Teotitlán
By: by Mary Jane Gagnier Mendoza ; with photographs by Ariel Mendoza and Mary Jane Gagnier Mendoza.
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Festivals -- Mexico -- Teotitlán del Valle.; Fasts and feasts -- Mexico -- Teotitlán del Valle.; Zapotec Indians -- Mexico -- Teotitlán del Valle -- Social life and customs.; Zapotec Indians -- Mexico -- Teotitlán del Valle -- Religious life and customs.; Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.; Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico) -- Religious life and customs.
Table of contents: title: Commencing the cycle : birth of the baby Jesus, and the new year begins; title: Pilgrimage, poinsettias, and black-bean tamales : the Fiesta of the Black Christ of Esquipulas; title: Candles to content : prewedding rituals; title: The wedding : coming of age; title: Lent and Holy Week; title: Post-Easter revelry : la danza de los viejos; title: Dancing for the gods : celebrating the patron saints; title: Death and the Day of the Dead; title: Echoes of harmony in step with change : closing thoughts on an unending cycle.