Author:

Nájera-Ramírez, Olga  Search this

Physical description:

viii, 187 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Mexico

Jocotán

Jocotán (Mexico)

Date:

1997

C1997

Contents:

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

Topic:

Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies  Search this

Indians of Mexico--Religion  Search this

Festivals  Search this

Cargo cults  Search this

History  Search this

Social life and customs  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_909354