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Aztecs, Moors and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. By Max Harris. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp. 309, illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index.)
In Aztecs, Moors and Christians Max Harris attempts to provide us with a means of understanding the Mexican and Spanish festivals of moros y cristianos (Moors and Christians)-the street theater/mock battles that date from preconquest Aztec time to the present day.
Harris frames his book with descriptions of four contemporary festivals. In the prologue he moves from the celebration of the Morismas de Bracho (the Beheading of John the Baptist) in 1996 in the Spanish town of Zacatecas, to Cuetzalan Mexico in 1988 and their danza de los santiagos, to examine the dissenting voices in...