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The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico

The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico

Alfredo López Austin
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The first English translation of Guy Stresser-Péan's tour-de-force 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 sixteenth century and the more recent intrusion of modernism.
The Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla are deeply devoted to Christianity, but their devotion is seamlessly combined with pagan customs, resulting in a hybrid belief system that is not wholly indigenous, yet not wholly Christian. The syncretism practiced here has led the Totonac and Nahua people to identify Christ with the Sun God, a belief expressed symbolically in ritual practices such as the Dance of the Voladores.
Spanning the four centuries from the earliest systematic campaign against Nahua ritual practices--Zum rraga's idolatry trials of 1536-1540--to the twentieth century, Stresser-P an contextualizes Nahua and Totonac ritual practices as a series of responses to Christian evangelization and the social reproduction of traditional ritual practices. "The Sun God and the Savior" is a monumental work on the ethnographic and historical knowledge of the peoples of the Sierra Norte. Included with the book is a DVD containing a documentary film--in English--made by Stresser-P an in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.
Pages
661
Format
ebook
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Release
May 14, 2014
ISBN
0870819860
ISBN 13
9780870819865

The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico

Alfredo López Austin
3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The first English translation of Guy Stresser-Péan's tour-de-force 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 sixteenth century and the more recent intrusion of modernism.
The Indians of the Sierra Norte de Puebla are deeply devoted to Christianity, but their devotion is seamlessly combined with pagan customs, resulting in a hybrid belief system that is not wholly indigenous, yet not wholly Christian. The syncretism practiced here has led the Totonac and Nahua people to identify Christ with the Sun God, a belief expressed symbolically in ritual practices such as the Dance of the Voladores.
Spanning the four centuries from the earliest systematic campaign against Nahua ritual practices--Zum rraga's idolatry trials of 1536-1540--to the twentieth century, Stresser-P an contextualizes Nahua and Totonac ritual practices as a series of responses to Christian evangelization and the social reproduction of traditional ritual practices. "The Sun God and the Savior" is a monumental work on the ethnographic and historical knowledge of the peoples of the Sierra Norte. Included with the book is a DVD containing a documentary film--in English--made by Stresser-P an in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.
Pages
661
Format
ebook
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Release
May 14, 2014
ISBN
0870819860
ISBN 13
9780870819865

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