Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption

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One of the great festival traditions shared by Pueblo and Hispano across New Mexico is the celebration Los Comanches. In this series of winter festivals, communities come alive with colorful processions, boisterous ceremonial dance, allegorical nativity plays, and a folk drama on horseback which portrays the 1779 defeat of famed war chief Cuerno Verde. In a mixture of defiance and emulation, these events honor the historic relations of war and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0826328776

ISBN13:9780826328779

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:2.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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