{"product_id":"9780870819322","title":"The Sun-God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra de Puebla, Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Spanning the four centuries from the earliest systematic campaign against Nahua ritual practices--Zumárraga's idolatry trials of 1536-1540--to the twentieth century, Stresser-Péan contextualizes Nahua and Totonac ritual practices as a series of responses to Christian evangelization and the social reproduction of traditional ritual practices. \u003ci\u003eThe Sun God and the Savior\u003c\/i\u003e 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-Péan in the Sierra Norte de Puebla.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univeristy Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022507688176,"sku":"9780870819322","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780870819322_p0.jpg?v=1763838643","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780870819322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}