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.
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado,
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| Series: | Mesoamerican worlds.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.