La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance,9780826319982

La Fiesta de Los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance

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ISBN13: 9780826319982
ISBN10: 082631998X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary

This ethnography explores the Fiesta de los Tastoanes celebrated annually by the citizens of Jocotan, Mexico, an ancient indigenous community near Guadalajara. The pageantry symbolically re-enacts the Spanish conquest of Mexico through mock battles between Santiago, the patron saint of Spain, and the Tastoanes, the leaders of the indigenous resistance. Paradoxically, the Jocotenos also honour Santiago, their special protector, and incorporate both Christian and indigenous practices and beliefs in their celebration. The author explores what the festival means to Jocoteno culture and identity and shows how it enables them to adapt to a social order dominated by Christianity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: First Encounters 3(11)
The Festival Performance: A Description
14(15)
Personal Encounters
29(16)
Contested Histories
45(17)
Jocotan Today
62(29)
A Religious Conversion Story
91(14)
The Prenda System: Reciprocity and Resistance
105(12)
Compromising Positions: The Politics of Hybridization
117(17)
Competing Forms of Cultural Reproduction
134(14)
Summary and Conclusions
148(7)
Notes 155(8)
Selected Bibliography 163(20)
Index 183

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