Description:
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the annual Fariseos event that happens in the northern Mexican community of San Pedro de la Cueva during Holy Week.
Brief description: Guillermo Núñez Noriega is a professor and researcher at the Research Center for Food and Development, A.C.
Review Quotes: "Núñez Noriega's study of the fariseos tradition insightfully probes how this folkloric expression enacts and rescripts the moral and gender imperatives of a community in Sonora, Mexico, located in the ancestral lands of the Opata. As a collective enactment of "catechesis" and "catharsis," the social drama of the fariseos offers a critical window to grapple with the ludic, erotic, and irrational dramatization of pleasure, aggression, and transgression. Núñez Noriega masterfully illustrates how such a folk tradition codifies religious, cultural, and political demands while allowing the community to rehearse, experience, and negotiate compulsory performances of masculinity, morality, and sexuality." --Manuel R. Cuellar, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies, George Washington University, USA