Skip to main content

Sage Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > movements and organizations > Mexican concheros
... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of religion > global religion > movements and organizations > Mexican concheros

Preferred term

Mexican concheros  

Definition

  • The term concheros is derived from concha, the name of the musical stringed instrument that Mexican dancers use. Regardless of their precise origin, concheros have been performing with their colorful garments for a long time in the atriums of the Catholic churches of several cities and towns in the center of Mexico. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Mexican Concheros]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Mexican_concheros

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD