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The sun god and the savior : the Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stresser-Péan, Guy (Autor)
Otros Autores: Stresser-Péan, Claude
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2009.
Colección:Mesoamerican worlds.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.