Adoring the Saints: Fiestas in Central Mexico

Index

Adiós oh Madre mía, 80, 182–184 adorned panel, 13, 14, 15, 25–26, 29, 31, 43, 44, 72, 74, 83, 94, 116, 124, 129, 133 aesthetics, 2, 3, 44, 97, 115, 125–129, 136 alabanza. See ballad altarpiece, 13, 26, 43, 44, 50, 55, 57, 66, 72, 116, 123, 124, 129, 133, 135, 163, 172 ancestors, 17, 28, 63, 71, 77, 79, 116, 127, 140, 180–182. See also soul: conqueror soul ánima. See soul ánima conquistador. See soul: conqueror soul Apaches, 2, 120, 121, 127, 135, 139, 190n6, 190n8, 192–193n61 armadillo shell, 32, 44, 95, 103, 122, 132 Athapaskan, 135, 190n8 Atotonilco, 7 Aztecs, 2, 10, 24, 47, 48, 53, 94, 95, 104, 122, 127, 130, 139, 143, 190n13, 191n31 baile. See dance: public dance ballad, 43, 44–53, 128, 132, 135, 136 band, 25, 67, 80, 81, 98, 101. See also music; musicians banda. See band battle, mock, 14. See also combat bawdiness. See resistance bell, 23, 32, 57, 60, 66, 70, 73, 79, 83, 133 blessing. See cleansing bread, 14, 75–76, 79, 81, 133, 175, Brenan, Gerald, 138 calvario. See calvary calvary, 7–8, 66, 70–71, 79–80 cambio de cargos. See fiesta officials: changing of campanita. See bell candles, 49, 54, 66, 68, 70, 76, 133 cargos. See fiesta officials: duties carguero. See fiesta official castillos y toritos. See castles and bulls castles and bulls, 14, 96, 98, 101. See also fireworks Catholicism, 3, 16, 17, 24, 28, 44, 46–48, 50–51, 53, 60–61, 69, 79, 81, 84, 123, 124–125, 146. See also Christianity cattle culture, 74, 97, 132 cemetery, 63, 66, 71, 79, 134 changing of duties. See fiesta officials: changing of chapel, 7–8; route of chapels, 7 Chichimec, 1, 2, 5, 10–12, 46–48, 73, 82, 84, 102, 120, 127, 139–140, 145, 147– 150, 157 Chichimec language, 12, 95 chimal. See adorned panel Christian, 77, 78, 121, 190n12 Christianity, 52–53, 121, 181. See also Catholicism index 0 adoring the saints cleansing, 2, 12, 23, 27, 43, 55, 57, 63, 76, 79, 123, 133, 192n41 cohete/cohetero. See stick rocket colloquio, 97 Columbus, 47, 119–120, 156 Comanche, 190n12 combat, 80. See also battle, mock combate. See combat communion. See comunitas compadre. See godparent comunitas, 44, 62, 69, 70, 80, 116, 119 concha. See armadillo shell conchero. See plumed dance, musicians conquest, 53, 95, 100, 119, 120, 122, 123, 138 copal. See resin coronación. See coronation coronation, 32 Correa, Phyllis, 188n2 Cortés, Hernán, 47–48, 52–53, 144–145, 156, 171 counterhegemonic. See resistance cow, 14, 16, 74–75, 76 crazies, 29, 67–68, 79, 83, 95, 98, 101, 122, 127 cristero, 51, 123 cross, 8, 47, 52, 56, 61, 66, 71, 97, 121, 131, 174, 180, 188n2, 190n12 crucero. See adorned panel Cruz del Palmar, 1–2, 7–9, 13–14, 28–30, 54–58, 66, 70–81, 82, 97–102, 117–118, 121, 122, 128, 135, 136–137, 139, 180– 182, 186 cuadro. See dance associations cuatro vientos. See four winds Cuauhtémoc, 47–48, 157, 170 cucharilla. See desert spoon cumplir, 116–117 cutouts, 69–70, 99, 124 dance, 13, 14, 15, 28, 94–104, 116, 119–122, 124, 136, 137, 189n4; conquest dance, 95, 120; dance associations, 95; dance of the French and the Apaches, 14, 29, 67, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 83, 94, 97, 98–100, 102–104, 120–121, 132–133, 139; dance of the French and the Chichimecs , 67, 94; Moors and Christians dance, 17, 94, 120–121, 132, 133, 138, 190n12; plumed dance, 16, 67, 83, 95, 102–104, 121–122, 139, 189n2, 191n41; public dance, 14, 101–102; rattle dance, 29, 67, 72, 74, 79, 94, 97, 98, 122 dance drama. See dance danza de conquista. See dance: conquest dance danza de los Franceses y los Apaches. See dance: dance of the French and the Apaches danza de Moros y Cristianos. See dance: Moors and Christians dance danza de pluma. See dance: plumed dance death, 73, 94, 99, 127, 134 “deep Mexico,” 5, 123, 127, 137, 139, 187–188n13 demandita. See saints: statues of; shrines desert spoon, 7, 13, 14, 26, 50, 55, 59, 133, 189n6 devil, 50, 68, 73, 94, 99 devotion. See religiosity Durán, Fray Diego, 133 encuentro. See encounter encounter, 14, 15, 68–69, 72–74, 82–84, 116, 131, 137 esclavos. See slaves ethnicity, 3 fiesta, 1, 80, 97; of patron saint, 1, 2...