Title: La fiesta de los tastoanes
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Indians of Mexico, Religion, Social life and customs, Cargo cults, Festivals, Rites and ceremonies, History, Manners and customs, Indians of mexico, religion, Mexico, history, Mexico, social life and customs, Indians of north america, rites and ceremonies
Places: Mexico, Jocotán, Jocotán (Mexico)
LC classification: F1219.1.J63 N35 1997