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Home Columns Allyn Hunt Often banned, sharply satirical pastorelas lay claim to an important cultural role in Mexico’s holiday theater of ‘common folk’

Often banned, sharply satirical pastorelas lay claim to an important cultural role in Mexico’s holiday theater of ‘common folk’

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Evil, licentious, corrupting, subversive, blasphemous.  Such is the lexicon of vilification used to denounce one of Mexico’s most unique, ambitiously syncretistic pagan/religious/boisterous/folk traditions, the Christmas pastorelas.

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