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

by Olga Najera-Ramirez

Each year, for three days in September, the citizens of Jocot n, an ancient indigenous community near Guadalajara, Mexico, symbolically reenact the Spanish conquest of Mexico in mock battles between Santiago, the patron saint of Spain, and the Tastoanes, the leaders of the indigenous resistance. Paradoxically, the Jocote os honor Santiago, their special protector, and incorporate both Christian and indigenous practices and beliefs in their fiesta...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082631998X
• ISBN13: 9780826319982
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"