| The Sun God and the Savior: The Christianization of the Nahua and Totonac in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico Subjects: Nahuas -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) -- Religion; Nahuas -- Missions -- Mexico -- Puebla (State); Nahuas -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) -- Rites and ceremonies; Totonac Indians -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) -- Religion; Totonac Indians -- Missions -- Mexico -- P; 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. Guy Stresser-Péan did ethnological fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de Puebla since he retired from his official posts in 1970. He wrote six other books in that time and has made seven ethnological documentaries with his wife, Claude Stresser-Péan. |