Converting the Indians in sixteenth-century Central Mexico to Christianity -- From spiritual conquest to parish administration in colonial Central Mexico -- A trilingual, traditionalist Indigenous area in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Introduction of Christianity in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Local religious crises in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The Tutotepec Otomí Rebellion, 1766-1769 -- Contemporary traditions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Sacred drums, Teponaztli, and idols from the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Traditional Indigenous festivities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Elements and accessories of traditional native ceremonies -- Christian festivities in the villages of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Dances that originated in the pre-Hispanic period -- Dances that originated during the colonial period -- Holders of Indigenous wisdom -- Relics of the Mesoamerican calendar in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- Beliefs about the formation and the end of the world -- Cosmology : the world in the eyes of the Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The souls of beings and things -- Supernatural beings in the beliefs and religious practices of Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla -- The non-syncretic religion of the last Nahuas of Central Mexico -- Religious syncretism among today's Indians in the Sierra Norte de Puebla
Summary
This translation presents two decades of fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, where Native pre-Hispanic pagan beliefs blended with traditional Catholic evangelization from the 16th century and the more recent intrusion of modernism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-597) and index
Notes
Accompanying DVD: La fete du maïs / film de Guy et Claude Stresser-Pean. Includes English and Spanish narration
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