Oaxaca celebration : family, food, and fiestas in Teotitlán / Mary Jane Gagnier Mendoza ; with photographs by Ariel Mendoza and Mary Jane Gagnier de Mendoza.

Author/creator Gagnier de Mendoza, Mary Jane
Format Book
Publication InfoSanta Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, ©2005.
Description159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), 1 color map ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Festivals--Mexico. --Teotitlán del Valle.
Fasts and feasts--Mexico. --Teotitlán del Valle.
Zapotec Indians--Mexico. --Teotitlán del Valle. --Social life and customs.
Zapotec Indians--Mexico. --Teotitlán del Valle. --Religious life and customs.
Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico)--Social life and customs.
Teotitlán del Valle (Mexico)--Religious life and customs.

Contents Commencing the cycle : Christmas posadas and the New Year -- Fiesta of the Black Christ of Esquipulas -- Prewedding rituals -- The wedding : coming of age -- Lent and Holy Week -- Post-Easter revelry : la danza de los viejos -- Dancing for the gods : celebrating the patron saints -- Death and the Day of the Dead.
LCCN 2005004865
ISBN0890134448 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN0890134456 (paperbound : alk. paper)