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The fiesta celebrated annually in Tepoztlán, Mexico, repeatedly enacts a history—one that affirms a sense of identity and agency quite different from the one found in history books, allowing for the massive performance-of-communal-self year after year. Through this astonishing act, performed history trumps official written history and communal organizations stymie governmental structures.
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