Digging the Days of the Dead. A Reading of Mexico's Dias De Muertos.

Garciagodoy, Juanita.

ISBN 10: 0870814990 / ISBN 13: 9780870814990

Editore: University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

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xviii, 333pp, index, bibliography, appendices, glossary, bw & col ills. Or card covers. Minor edge wear. Mexico's Dias del Muertos (Days of the Dead, All Souls Day). Size: 8vo.

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• Titolo: Digging the Days of the Dead. A Reading of Mexico's Dias De Muertos.
• Editore: University Press of Colorado, Boulder
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0870814990
• ISBN 13: 9780870814990
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: Reprint.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnology

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Riassunto

A study of the annual Mexican celebration in which the dead are the guests of honor. Garciagodoy (Spanish, Macalester College) depicts various aspects of the celebration--including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development--and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. She also looks in detail at differences in attitudes towards death in Mexico and the US. Includes 96 b&w photographs and a 16 page-color insert. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Book by Garciagodoy Juanita