Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption

by Enrique R. Lamadrid

Book Overview

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"